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![Volksempfänger](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Volksempfaenger_02_KMJ.jpg/100px-Volksempfaenger_02_KMJ.jpg)
- 1888 – Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof is opened
- 1933 – The Volksempfänger is presented at the Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin
- 1944 – Communist politician Ernst Thälmann is shot at Buchenwald concentration camp