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24 April — Otmar Gutmann, German TV producer, animator and director (died 1993) 25 April — Wolfgang Zapf, German sociologe (died 2018) 2 May – Gisela Elsner, German writer (died 1992) 3 May – Hans Cieslarczyk, German football player (died 2020) 23 May — Rupert Scholz, German politician; 29 May — Alwin Schockemöhle, German equestrian
Uprising of 1953 in East Germany: 100,000 protestors gathered at dawn, demanding the reinstatement of old work quotas and, later, the resignation of the East German government. At noon German police trapped many of the demonstrators in an open square; Soviet tanks fired on the crowd, killing hundreds and ending the protest. 1954: 4 July
Hans von Tschammer und Osten, Nazi Germany's Reichssportführer, called upon all German athletes to join the Hitler Youth. The former French ambassador to Italy, Charles de Chambrun, was shot in the thigh by a woman who blamed him for breaking up her friendship with Mussolini. [84] Born: Frank Calabrese, Sr., American mobster; in Chicago (d ...
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The government of Nazi Germany recommended German artists depict at least four children in illustrations of German families. [ 40 ] U.S. Representative William B. Bankhead of Alabama, a Democrat , won re-election as the Speaker of the United States House of representatives, receiving 324 of 421 votes cast (76.78%).
Hitler had in July 1937 praised Barbarossa as the emperor who first expressed Germanic cultural ideas and carried them to the outside world through his imperial mission. [39] For Hitler, the name Barbarossa signified his belief that the conquest of the Soviet Union would usher in the Nazi "Thousand-Year Reich". [39]
For most of this century, Germany racked up one economic success after another, dominating global markets for high-end products like luxury cars and industrial machinery, selling so much to the ...
Born: Hans Cieslarczyk, German footballer; in Herne (d. 2020) [30] Died: Cosimo Rennella , Ecuadorian-born Italian flying ace during World War One with seven victories and later a member of the Air Force of Ecuador, died of pneumonia after returning from the United States, where head attended a convention of fellow World War I aces in Dayton ...