1960s years - Federal Republic of Germany
Building of the Wall, student revolt and a whale in the Rhine
14.06.2011 - A picture dated August 18, 1961 shows some people building the Berlin Wall under the authority of armed policemen at the Soviet-American sector of the Gene at the Potsdamer Platz....
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14.06.2011 - A picture dated August 1961 shows some people building the Berlin Wall on Bernauer Street in Berlin. The 'Rose operation' and the constructions of the berlin Wall turns 50. Photo:...
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17.11.1962 - President Kennedy's Berlin-adviser Lucius D. Clay takes a look across the Berlin Wall at Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, 17 November 1962. Clay was the military governor of th...
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14.04.1968 - Easter marchers with a cross stand in the water jet of a water gun during the Easter March on the 14th of April in 1968.
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18.02.1968 - The Socialist German Student Union (SDS) chief ideologist Rudi Dutschke (M, with his fist raised), as well as the German poet and writer Erich Fried (l, wearing a helmet) march on...
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09.11.1967 - Students hold up a banner saying "Under the talars, the mustiness is kept for thousands of years" during the entrance of the new and the old dean of the University of Hamburg. The...
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02.06.1967 - Benno Ohnesorg is taken to hospital where he died of his injuries later. He was shot at the anti-Shah demonstration by a policeman. Photograph from the 2nd of June in 1967.
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11.05.1968 - Students holding red flags protest on 20 May 1968 against the German Emergency Acts. On left a poster of students spokesperson Rudi Dutschke. The writing says " The revolution wil...
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12.06.1966 - "Moby Dick", the white Belugale wale, swims upstream the Rhine between Bonn and Bad Godesberg on the 12th of June in 1966. The wale was spotted on the 18th of May in 1966 in Duisbu...
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26.06.1963 - US president John F. Kennedy speaking in front of the city hall schoeneberg in Berlin on 26 June 1963 the historic sentence "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a citizen of Berlin).
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04.10.1968 - Masses of people take the subway on the 4th of October in 1968, shortly after the opening ceremony of the subway.
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17.02.1962 - A helicopter flies across the flooded houses after the storm flood from the 16th to the 17th of February in 1962 (undated archive picture from 1962).
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11.04.1961 - Ein Nürnberger Wehrpflichtiger beim Einsatz als Krankenpfleger im Frankfurter Bürgerhospital. Die ersten der rund 2800 anerkannten Wehrdienstverweigerer haben am 11. April 1961 ihr...
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30.11.1966 - Broadcast of the first test programme in colour in a coffee shop in Frankfurt in 1967.
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11.04.1968 - The assassin Josef Bachmann, who was seriously injured after an exchange of shots with the police, is transported on a stretcher by firefighters. Socialist German Student Union (SD...
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10.11.1963 - Parting chancellor Konrad Adenauer (r) and his successor Ludwig Erhard during Adenauer's farewell banquet on the 11th of October in 1963 in Palais Schaumburg in Bonn.
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15.09.1959 - Successor of Theodor Heuss, the new head of state Heinrich Lübke (2nd of right) accepts congratulations after being sworn in on the 15th of September in 1959.
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25.08.1967 - Vice chancellor Willy Brandt starts the colour television by pushing a button at the 25th German Radio Exhibition on the 25th of August in 1967.
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01.12.1966 - 1. Reihe (l-r): Carlo Schmid, Herbert Wehner, Kai-Uwe von Hassel, Lauritz Lauritzen, Werner Dollinger, Georg Leber, Gerhard Schröder, Hans Katzer, Hermann Höcherl, Karl Schiller, F...
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01.10.1969 - SPD chairman Willy Brandt (l) and FDP chairman Walter Scheel shortly before the beginning of the second round of coalition talks in Bonn on 01 October 1969.
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01.12.1966 - The new chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger (l, CDU) is sworn in by the president of the Bundestag Eugen Gerstenmaier (r) on the 1st of December in 1966.
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30.11.1999 - Vier Starfighter vom Typ F 104 G der deutschen Bundesluftwaffe im Formationsflug über den Wolken. (undatiert)
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28.10.1966 - FDP ministers (l-r) Ewald Bucher, Erich Mende, Walter Scheel and Rolf Dahlgrün receive their certificates of discharge from German president Heinrich Lübke (3rd of right) and his p...
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19.11.1962 - (l-r): Wolfgang Mischnick, Wolfgang Stammberger,Erich Mende, Hans Lenz, Walter Scheel and Heinz Starke (all FDP), after the board had declared the FDP ministers' demission from off...
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17.02.1962 - Inhabitants of Wilhelmsburg are rescued from their flooded houses in rubber boats. In the night from the 16th to the 17th of February in 1962, 315 people died in the storm flood ca...
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27.05.1967 - Empfang des Bundespräsidenten Lübke für das persische Kaiserpaaar im Schloß Brühl bei Bonn am 27. Mai 1967. V. l-r 1. Reihe: Die Frau des Bundespräsidenten Wilhelmine Lübke, Schah...
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10.02.1962 - Angehörige und Freunde nehmen an den Särgen Abschied. Am 10. Februar 1962 wurden in Anwesenheit von Bundespräsident Heinrich Lübke 267 Opfer beigesetzt. Eine Schlagwetterexplosion...
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14.12.1964 - The group of the Frankfurt jury court and several journalists are passing the camp gate with the words 'Arbeit macht frei' (work brings freedom). The first local inspection during...
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14.02.1969 - Die Münchner Chirurgen Professor Dr. Rudolf Zenker (l), Werner Rudolph (M) und Werner Klinner (r) bestätigen am 14. Februar 1969 vor Journalisten, daß am 13. Februar 1969 die erste...
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01.07.1969 - SPD politician Gustav Heinemann (l) is sworn in as German president on the 1st of July in 1969 in front of the Bundestag by the president of the Bundestag Kai-Uwe von Hassel. He ha...
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15.02.1961 - Pupils and their teacher from Munich watch the solar eclipse through toned glasses on the 15th of February in 1961.
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30.11.1999 - Logo of the ZDF, the "Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen", translates as "Second German Television", from 1963.
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31.08.1969 - Ernst Huberty moderiert im September 1969 die vom WDR produzierte "Sportschau". [dpabilderarchiv]
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07.11.1963 - Zahlreiche Helfer stehen am 7.11.1963 während der dramatischsten Rettungsaktion in der Geschichte des deutschen Bergbaus neben der Bohrstelle im niedersächsischen Lengede. Ganz Deu...
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30.11.1999 - Das einstige Eiskunstlauf-Traumpaar Marika Kilius und Hans-Jürgen Bäumler (undatiertes Archivbild) beim Training im norditalienischen Cortina d'Ampezzo. Kilius, die zweimalige Welt...
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29.02.1960 - Employees work at the first Opel on the assembly line in the newly built part of the factory of the Opel works in Ruesselsheim in March 1960.
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30.11.1963 - A woman sores away her shopping in a basket fixed to her Vespa, photographed in 1964.
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05.07.1967 - Die Kabinettsmitglieder während ihrer Sitzung im Garten des Palais Schaumburg in Bonn unter schattigen Bäumen am 5.7.1967. Das sommerliche Wetter in Bonn veranlasste das Bundeskabi...
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24.08.1963 - Goal scorer Timo Konietzka (back, r) and his colleague Lothar Emmerich (front) cheer about the first goal of the Bundesliga season 1963 on the 24th of August in 1963.
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07.03.1968 - Teilnehmer der Gesprächsrunde der Konzertierten Aktion am 7. März 1968 in Bonn unter der Leitung von Bundeswirtschaftsminister Karl Schiller (4.v.l.). Teilgenommen haben u.a. der B...
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31.07.1966 - An enthusiastic crowd of people at the Frankfurt Roemerberg are celebrating the German players who are standing on the balcony of the townhall on July 31st 1966. In the front Frank...
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31.01.1960 - It is brought to the guests' attention, that wearing jeans in the restaurant in Nuremberg is not allowed, photographed in February 1960.
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16.10.1963 - Heinrich Lübke (l) hat am 16. Oktober 1963 in der Villa Hammerschmidt in Bonn dem neu gewählten Bundeskanzler Ludwig Erhard (r) die Ernennungsurkunde überreicht. Der am 14. Oktober...
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31.07.1967 - Actress Uschi Glas (r) in a film scene of "Zur Sache Schätzchen" in August 1967.
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30.11.1963 - The new Opel cars of the types Diplomat, Admiral and Kapitän on the test court in 1964.
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16.04.1969 - Shortly before the opening of the exceptional party conference of the SPD in Bad Godesberg on the 16th of April in 1969 (l-r) Willy Brandt, Prof. Dr. Karl Schiller, Helmut Schmidt,...
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01.05.1968 - Dutch singer and child star Heintje, real name Hendrik Simons, during a performance at the TV show "When the white lilac blooms again" on the 1st of May in 1968.
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01.09.1967 - Ein Tankwart betankt in Frankfurt am Main einen VW-Käfer mit Benzin (Archivfoto vom 01.09.1967). Damals kostete der Liter Normalbenzin nur 54,5 Pfennige, Super gab es für 61,5 Pfen...
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01.01.1965 - Eine VEBA Aktie zum Nennwert von DM 100,--. Ab Mitte 1965 wurden die Volksaktien der Vereinigten Elektrizitäts- und Bergwerks- Aktiengesellschaft VEBA von Banken und Sparkassen zum...
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27.04.1968 - The chairman of the Socialist German Student Union (SDS) Frank Wolff (r) speaks in April 1968 about the participants of the "Teach in" at the town hall square in Esslingen. About 5...
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15.04.1968 - Easter marcher on 15.04.1968, Easter Monday, in Stuttgart. A wave of protest demonstrations has triggered the assassination attempt on Berlin's SDS ideologist Rudi Dutschke. Dutsch...
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07.07.1967 - Bundesfinanzminister Franz Josef Strauß (l, CSU) und Bundeswirtschaftsminister Prof. Karl Schiller (r, SPD) während einer Pressekonferenz des Bundeskanzlers zur mittelfristigen Fin...
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20.02.1962 - Greek singer Nana Mouskouri is awarded with a Golden Record for having sold one million records of her song "Weiße Rosen aus Athen", translates as "White Roses from Athens", on the...
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09.06.1967 - Round 10,000 participants express their sorrow about the death of student Benno Ohnesorgon the 9th of June in 1967, who had been shot at the anti-Shah demonstration by a policeman...
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11.09.1965 - Kreischende Fans auf einem Konzert der Rockband Rolling Stones am 11.09.1965 in der Münsterlandhalle in Münster. Foto: Otto Noecker +++(c) dpa - Report+++ [dpabilderarchiv]
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26.06.1963 - A group of women manages - despite many secret service agents surrounding the limousine - to shake hands with US president John F. Kennedy while he was driving in an open car throu...
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25.08.1967 - Showmaster Vico Torriani und Schlagersängerin Manuela am 25.08.1967 neben dem Logo der ZDF-Show "Der Goldene Schuss". +++(c) dpa - Report+++ [dpabilderarchiv]
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22.10.1969 - Der deutsche Fußball-Nationalspieler Uwe Seeler in Aktion während der WM-Qualifikation gegen Schottland am 22.10.1969 im Volksparkstadion in Hamburg. +++(c) dpa - Report+++ [dpabi...
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19.12.2008 - Automated translation: Original packing with thalidomide tablets. Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, 19.12.2008 .
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01.11.1963 - Die Rettungsaktion "Barbecke" ist beendet, drei eingeschlossene Bergleute werden am 1. November 1963 aus 82 Metern Tiefe gerettet, hier steigt der erste gluecklich eine Treppe heru...
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07.11.2016 - Der Hexer, (DER HEXER) D 1964, Regie: Alfred Vohrer, JOACHIM FUCHSBERGER (li), EDDI ARENT (re), Stichwort: Revolver
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07.11.2016 - Winnetou, (WINNETOU) D-YU 1965, PIERRE BRICE, LEX BARKER Stichwort: Indianer, Gewehr
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16.07.1967 - Die französische Sängerin Mireille Mathieu, Deutschland 1960er Jahre. French singer Mireille Mathieu, Germany 1960s.
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01.10.1961 - A brick layer of the GDR works on a window, which has not yet been bricked completely, in a border house in Bernauer Street in Berlin on the 1st of October in 1961.
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17.02.1968 - About 3000 persons, mostly students, took part in the International Vietnam conference, carried out by the Socialist German Student Union (SDS), at the Technical University in Berl...
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26.06.1963 - US-President John F. Kennedy (C) holds his famous speech in front of the Berlin city hall "Schoeneberger Rathaus" on June 26, 1963. His statement "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Ber...
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17.02.1962 - Residents of the flooded part of Hamburg Wilhelmsburg are taken out of their house by a rescue team on the 17th of February in 1962.
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11.01.1963 - The committee of the German Football Association (DFB) discusses on the 11th of January in 1963 in Frankfurt am Main, which of the 45 applying clubs have the athletic, economical a...
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01.01.2000 - Parting from 287 miners on the funeral service on 10 February 1962. After a mine explosion in the Alsbach shaft of the mine Luisenthal in Völklingen (Saarland) on 07 February 1962,...
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10.09.1964 - Armando Rodrigues from the small village of Vale de Madeiros in Portugal sits proudly on a moped presented to him at his arrival at the train station in Cologne-Deutz on 10 Septemb...
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20.12.1963 - The first Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials is declared open in the plenary hall of the city council assembly of Frankfurt on 20 Decemrber 1963. The photograph shows press photographers a...
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27.05.1965 - Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip are visiting the British troops on Maifeld in Berlin on 27th May 1965.
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01.08.1961 - Arbeiter erhöhen die Sektorensperre an der Bernauer Straße in Berlin im August 1961. Fast Abend für Abend war es an diesem und anderen Mauerabschnitten zu Zwischenfällen gekommen....
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30.01.1969 - Students during a sit-in in front of the headmaster's office at University of Munich on 30 January 1969.
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15.09.1965 - The Rolling Stones performing in West Berlin (West Germany) to a riotous audience at the Waldbuehne on 15.09.1965.
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16.04.1969 - Beate Klarsfeld on 16 April 1969 in Berlin during the appeal proceedings against the ruling of November 7, 1968. Klarsfeld had slapped Chancellor Kiesinger. Later, the sentence was...
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31.07.1961 - GDR citizens carry only few belongings as they flee to West Berlin after it became known, that GDR is separating East Berlin from West Berlin with barbed road blocks and walls sinc...
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05.07.1967 - Die Kabinettsmitglieder während ihrer Sitzung im Garten des Palais Schaumburg in Bonn unter schattigen Bäumen am 05.07.1967. Das sommerliche Wetter in Bonn veranlasste das Bundeska...
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24.06.1966 - The Beatles (l-r) George Harrison, Paul McCartney, John Lennon and in the background Ring Starr at the drums, perform in Circus Krone in Munich on the 24th of June in 1966 in front...
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27.11.1965 - Mit Transparenten demonstrieren Atombombengegner und Mitglieder der "Kampagne für Abrüstung" am 27.11.1965 auf dem Bahnhofsvorplatz in Stuttgart gegen den Krieg in Vietnam und für...
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30.09.1968 - Regisseur Bertrand Castelli (l) im Oktober 1968 während einer Probe zu dem Musical "Hair" im Münchner Theater an der Briennerstraße, wo am 24.10.1968 die deutsche Premiere stattfin...
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10.09.1964 - Mit stolzer Miene steht der millionste Gastarbeiter der Bundesrepublik, Armando Rodrigues aus dem kleinen Dorf Vale de Madeiros in Portugal, neben dem Moped, das er bei seiner Anku...
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10.09.1967 - Berlin student Fritz Teufel (M) speaks to the demonstrators. Due to the abolition of the exemption from imprisonment for Teufel, a spontaneous demonstration took place at the congr...
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12.01.1970 - (2.v.l.-r): Heinz Oskar Vetter (DGB-Vorsitzender), Herrmann Brandt (Präsident des Bundesverbandes der Deutschen Industrie), Professor Karl Schiller (Bundeswirtschaftsminister), Ott...
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30.11.1964 - GDR penioners queue for their 50 German Mark welcome money in the information centre in West Berlin, Germany, in 1964. As expected, a run of GDR pensioners to the Federal Republic...
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22.01.1963 - Der französische Staatspräsident Charles de Gaulle (r.) und der deutsche Bundeskanzler Konrad Adenauer unterzeichnen in Paris den deutsch-französischen Freundschaftsvertrag.
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26.01.1968 - Meteorologist Dr. Karla Wege smiles and points to the weather map. She will join the group of eight male meteorologists on the 5th of February in 1968 as first woman, who will by t...
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30.04.1960 - Marlene Dietrich (r) and Hildegard Knef (l) are welcomed as the arrive in Berlin on the 30th of April in 1960.
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14.11.1961 - CDU politician Elisabeth Schwarzhaupt (l) is the first woman being sworn in as federal minister on the 14th of November in 1961 by president of the Bundestag Eugen Gerstenmaier.
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10.09.1964 - The millionth guest worker in the Federal Republic from the Portuguese town Vale de Madeiros next to a moped at Köln-Deutz station on the 10th of September in 1964.
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03.04.1964 - View on the dock with Viktor Capesius (m) and Wilhelm Boger (r, next to him, both with glasses). The trial against 22 former guards of the Auschwitz concentration camp was continue...
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30.10.1962 - On 30 October 1962, a group of students demonstrated against the arrest of "Spiegel" editors in front of the Frankfurt Hauptwache with a sit-down strike. The article "Conditionally...
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27.11.1967 - Rudi Dutschke - Spokesperson of the German student movement - on 27 November 1957 at the Free University of Berlin.
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10.12.1967 - Adolescents dance joyfully at the biggest "Hippie Flower Party" in Berlin on the 10th of December in 1967.
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07.11.1968 - Bundeskanzler Kurt Georg Kiesinger (l) wischt sich mit einem Taschentuch über Auge und Nase. Die 29jährigen Beate Klarsfeld hatte ihm kurz zuvor eine Ohrfeige versetzt. Rechts Ex-B...
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21.10.1969 - New chancellor Willy Brandt is sworn in by the president of the Bundestag Kai Uwe von Hassel in the Bundestag on the 21st of October in 1969.
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23.10.1962 - Headlines of newspapers from West Berlin on the 23rd of October in 1962 are dominated by the American embargo on sea against Cuba.
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13.03.1962 - Sie Sieger der "Löwen"-Verleihung des Senders Radio Luxemburg am 13. März 1962 in Bad Soden (l-r): Freddy Quinn (Gold für "La Paloma"), Nana Mouskouri (Silber für "Weiße Rosen aus...
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