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365 days of German history

Every day is historic! Do you want to know which key events took place in history on your date of birth? Or are you preparing for the next school presentation or Trivial Pursuit evening? The historical calendar from the Deutschlandmuseum shows you what happened in German history on each day of the year: major events, historical anniversaries, significant inventions, important birthdays and much more.

Collective security Eastern style

Alarmed at Soviet expansion in East and Central Europe after the Second World War, the Western European countries (without West Germany) reacted in 1949 by founding a defensive military alliance called the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). [...]

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