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Films from the German Federal Archives

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  Luigi Colani’s 90th Birthday (* August 2, 1928)

  Chair, toothbrush, coffin, lamp, eyeglasses or ballpointpen—there are hardly any objects of utility that haven’t been reshaped by the „god of the… More…

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  Parliamentary Council meets in Bonn (August 13, 1948)

  On August 13, 1948, eleven West German minister-presidents decide on Bonn as the conference site for the parliamentary council. In a survey done over… More…

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  The End of „Prague Spring“ (August 21, 1968)

  In the night from August 20th to August 21, 1968 the troops of the Warsaw Pact march into Czechoslovakia to put a sudden and violent end to the… More…