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Gleitze estimated 800,000 civilian deaths (for Germany within 1937 borders only) among only "Eastern Germans" in the area of the expulsions. The figures in the Gleitze study were ignored by the Schieder commission report, issued in 1953, which gave a figure of 1.617 million civilian deaths among the eastern Germans (in 1937 borders) 1954–1961
Summer – American-born writer Thomas Quinn Curtiss meets German-born novelist Klaus Mann in Europe and they start a relationship. July Buchenwald concentration camp in Nazi Germany is established around the Goethe Oak. Rex Ingamells and other poets initiate the Jindyworobak Movement in Australian literature, in the magazine Venture. [5]
Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1937 (19 P) Pages in category "1937 deaths" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 3,936 total.
27 October — Peter Lustig, German television presenter and author of children's books (died 2016) 26 July – Peter Fleischmann, German film director (died 2021) 29 October — Michael Ponti, German pianist (died 2022) 1 November. Jürgen Echternach, German politician (died 2006) Witta Pohl, German actress (died 2011)
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 .
The Spanish Republicans launched the Segovia Offensive against the city of Segovia in an attempt to divert the rebel Spanish Nationalists from their advance on Bilbao. The attempt at luring the Nationalists away failed. [189] Italy and Germany decided to withdraw from the non-intervention cordon around Spain. [69]
France feared that Germany was building up troops there under the guise of "volunteers" in preparation for a surprise attack on French Morocco. [70] Britain warned its citizens that anyone volunteering to fight for either side in the Spanish Civil War would be subject to prosecution under the Foreign Enlistment Act of 1870. [71] Died:
Erman and his school at Berlin had the difficult task of recovering the grammar of the Egyptian language and spent thirty years of special study on it. The greater part of Egyptian texts after the Middle Kingdom having been written in what was even then practically a dead language, as dead as Latin was to the medieval monks in Italy who wrote and spoke it, Erman selected for special ...