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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.

Nazis on trial

More than 277,000 people were imprisoned in Buchenwald concentration camp on the outskirts of Weimar between 1937 and 1945. Although it did not operate as a death camp, some 56,000 of the inmates perished before its liberation by the US Army on 11 April 1945. [...]

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