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Sedantag
Sedantag (German: Day of Sedan) was a German Empire semi-official memorial holiday celebrated on 2 September to commemorate the victory in the battle of Sedan in 1870. After the French emperor Napoleon III had declared the Franco-Prussian War a few weeks earlier, he and his army was taken prisoner in the fortress of Sedan by Prussian troops, a major step to eventual victory.
While never proclaimed officially, participation and official support for Sedantag celebrations grew. It became to a de-facto national holiday, last celebrated in 1918.
After the Treaty of Versailles had to be signed in mid 1919, on 27 August 1919 the Innenministerium of the Weimar Republic declared that no further Sedantag celebrations should take place.
