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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.

Life in prison for the Baader-Meinhof Gang

Emerging from the student revolt of the 1960s, the Baader-Meinhof Gang – named after its founders Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof – was dedicated to waging an “urban guerrilla war” against what it saw as a capitalist and imperialist state, with the aim of establishing a communist system. [...]

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