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When Germany was reunited there were plans made for a biergarten, restaurant or café on the site of the Ehrentempel but these were derailed by the growth of rare biotope vegetation on the site. As a result of this, the temples were spared complete destruction and the foundation bases of the monuments remain, intersecting on the corner of ...
Carl Ludwig "Luz" Long (27 April 1913 – 14 July 1943) was a German Olympic long jumper who won the silver medal in the event at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin and had a friendship with Jesse Owens, who won the gold medal in that event.
Köpenick's week of bloodshed (German "Köpenicker Blutwoche") is the name given to a week of arrests, torture, and killings by the SA between 21 and 26 June 1933. The victims were civilians, and the Berlin suburb of Köpenick, where it took place, was thought by the new government (and others) to contain particularly large numbers of Communists and Jews.
Germany observed a memorial day for the Navy to mark the 20th anniversary of the Battle of Jutland. Hitler attended the dedication of the Laboe Naval Memorial but was not among those who spoke at the ceremony. [45] Louis Meyer won the Indianapolis 500, becoming the first driver to win the race three times.
Sachsenhausen (German pronunciation: [zaksn̩ˈhaʊzn̩]) or Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg was a German Nazi concentration camp in Oranienburg, Germany, used from 1936 until April 1945, shortly before the defeat of Nazi Germany in May later that year. [2] [3] It mainly held political prisoners throughout World War II.
8 May - Oswald Spengler, German historian (born 1880) [10] 22 May - Joseph Koeth, German politician (born 1870) 3 June – Walther Wever, German general, pre-World War II Luftwaffe commander (born 1887) 22 June –Moritz Schlick, German philosopher and physicist (born 1882) 24 July - Georg Michaelis, German politician, former chancellor of ...
1936 was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1936th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 936th year of the 2nd millennium, the 36th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1930s decade.
The Oberkommando der Marine was formed in Germany. The Executive Order on the Reich Tax Law forbade Jews from serving as tax consultants in Germany. [12] The Warner Bros. short cartoon I Wanna Play House was released, the first with "target" titles. Born: Eva Hesse, Jewish German-born American sculptor; in Hamburg (d. 1970)