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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.

The collectivization of East German agriculture

Proclaiming its intention to place “Junker land in the peasant’s hand”, the Soviet occupation authorities moved in 1945 to dissolve all farms in East Germany over 100 hectares in size and hand them to individual peasants to farm; 40% of agricultural land in the Soviet zone was therefore held by these “new farmers”. [...]

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