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7 May — Spanish Civil War: The German Condor Legion Fighter Group, equipped with Heinkel He 51 biplanes, arrives in Spain to assist Francisco Franco's forces. 28 May — Volkswagen, state-owned carmaker, is formed to produce the new people's car. [1] 8 June — Carl Orff's Carmina Burana premieres in Frankfurt, Germany.
The death toll attributable to the flight and expulsions was estimated at 2.2 million by the West German government in 1958 using the population balance method. German records which became public in 1987 have caused some historians in Germany to put the actual total at about 500,000 based on the listing of confirmed deaths.
This list of wars by death toll includes all deaths directly or indirectly caused by the deadliest wars in history. These numbers encompass the deaths of military personnel resulting directly from battles or other wartime actions, as well as wartime or war-related civilian deaths, often caused by war-induced epidemics , famines , or genocides .
A. Thorvald Aagaard; Artturi Aalto; Memed Abashidze; Alice Balch Abbot; Abd al-Hafid of Morocco; Alfred Abel; Tom Abel (cricketer) Anna Åbergsson; Alexander Abramov-Mirov
An explosion on the Spanish Navy battleship Jaime I killed at least 200 crew while the ship was in harbor at Cartagena. [92] [93] A state funeral was held in Germany for 31 victims of the May 29 Deutschland incident. [94] The adventure film King Solomon's Mines premiered in the United Kingdom.
The German economist de:Bruno Gleitze from the German Institute for Economic Research estimated that included in the total of 7.1 million deaths by natural causes that there were 1,2 million excess deaths caused by an increase in mortality due to the harsh conditions in Germany during and after the war [151] In Allied occupied Germany the ...
The bombing of Jaén was an aerial attack on the city of Jaén on 1 April 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, by the Condor Legion of Nazi Germany, who fought for the rebels. The bombing was ordered by the General Queipo de Llano , as retaliation for a Republican air raid on the city of Córdoba .
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