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Women’s Voices in the Street: SPD speech records in the 1928 election campaign
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Why Are School Lessons in Germany 45 Minutes Long?
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Queer History
3 May 2018
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Leaflets against Dictatorship – The ‘White Rose’ and 18 February 1943
19 February 2018
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Equal Rights, Equal Duties – Women’s Suffrage in Germany
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Iconoclasm and Reformation
8 August 2017
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The Warsaw Genuflection: Willy Brandt's Historic Gesture
7 December 2016
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The Year without a Summer: How Europe descended into Climate Chaos
5 December 2016
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