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Karfreitag. Easter Sunday - 2 days. Easter Monday. Ostermontag. Easter Sunday + 1 day. Birthday of the Führer. Führergeburtstag. 20 April. celebrated from 1933 to 1944, declared national holiday for Hitler's 50th birthday in 1939 [4]
Memorial Day (originally known as Decoration Day) [1] is one of the federal holidays in the United States for honoring and mourning the U.S. military personnel who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces. [2][3] It is observed on the last Monday of May. Memorial Day is also considered the unofficial beginning of summer in the ...
Only after 1930 would Hitler gain significant voter support, a process that would culminate in the Nazis' electoral victory of 1933. After his political takeover, he declared 9 November a national holiday, and every year a celebration in remembrance of the so-called Blutzeugen (blood-witnesses), the victims of the Beer Hall Putsch, took place.
A Holocaust memorial day or Holocaust remembrance day is an annual observance to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust, the genocide of six million Jews and of millions of other Holocaust victims by Nazi Germany and its collaborators. Many countries, primarily in Europe, have designated national dates of commemoration.
t. e. The International Holocaust Remembrance Day, or the International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, is an international memorial day on 27 January that commemorates the victims of the Holocaust, which resulted in the genocide of one third of the Jewish people, along with countless members of other minorities by Nazi Germany ...
Founded. 27 June 1942; 82 years ago (1942-06-27) in Munich, Nazi Germany. Founder. Hans Scholl. Alexander Schmorell. Defunct. 1943. The White Rose (German: Weiße Rose, pronounced [ˈvaɪsə ˈʁoːzə] ⓘ) was a non-violent, intellectual resistance group in Nazi Germany which was led by five students and one professor at the University of ...
Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler[a] (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, [c] becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934.
e. Nazi Germany, [i] officially known as the German Reich[j] and later the Greater German Reich, [k] was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship. The Third Reich, [l] meaning "Third Realm" or "Third Empire", referred to the Nazi claim ...