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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 state is responsible for schools!
Elementary education had been the responsibility of either the Church or the local ruler for as long as anyone could remember. Surveying the situation in his newly unified Germany, Bismarck decided he needed to curb the influence of the Catholic Church and brought the education of the youngest under state control. [...]
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