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13 October — Germany, in a note to Brussels, guarantees the inviolability and integrity of Belgium so long as the latter abstains from military action against Germany; 5 November — In the Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring "living space" for the German people (recorded in the Hossbach ...
Women sent their children to school wearing necklaces featuring crucifixes. In 1935, a group of men pushed their way into a school to replace Hitler's picture with a crucifix. The Bavarian Government Presidents expressed concern about the interference of Holy days and the morale of the Catholic population in August 1937.
Buchenwald (German pronunciation: [ˈbuːxn̩valt]; literally 'beech forest') was a Nazi concentration camp established on Ettersberg hill near Weimar, Germany, in July 1937. It was one of the first and the largest of the concentration camps within the Altreich (Old Reich) territories.
It held as many as 2000 male prisoners from 1933 to 1937 and from 1937 to 1939 held female prisoners. [2] It was closed in May 1939, when the Ravensbrück concentration camp for women was opened, which replaced Lichtenburg as the main camp for female prisoners.
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 ...
Pages in category "1937 in Germany" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Nine deaths makes the Clark County crash as tied for the second-deadliest crash in Wisconsin history. Nine people also died in a crash in 1937.
The number of deaths in the Buchenwald concentration camp is estimated to have been 56,545, a mortality rate of 20% averaged over all prisoners transferred to the camp between its founding in 1937 and its liberation in 1945. Deaths were due both to the harsh conditions of life in the camp and also to the executions carried out by camp overseers.