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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 Anschluss of Austria

With the defeat and dissolution of the multi-ethnic Austro-Hungarian Empire after the First World War, the German-speaking Austrians decided they wanted to join the new German Republic. Having just expended a great deal of blood and treasure in defeating their enemy, Great Britain, France and the USA baulked at the idea of Germany emerging from its defeat larger and more populous than before. [...]

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