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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 last death on the Berlin Wall
Just a few months before the (unforeseeable) opening of the Berlin Wall, two young men attempted to flee from East to West Berlin by swimming the Britz canal. On the night of 5 February, 1989, 20-year-old Chris Gueffroy and his friend Christian Gaudian attempted to scale a metal fence, mistakenly believing that the order to open fire on those seeking to cross the border had been suspended for the duration of a state visit from the west. [...]
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