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Hitler conceived of rebuilding Berlin to be the capital of the new world he would be instrumental in creating, and provided the name for it, 'Germania'. [1] According to records of Hitler's "table talk" of 8 June 1942, Hitler's purpose in the renaming was to give a Greater Germanic world empire of the New Order a clear central point:
It became the capital of the ... At the end of the 12th century German merchants founded the first ... Life and Death in Hitler's Capital 1939‒1945
Nazi Germany, [i] officially known as the German Reich [j] and later the Greater German Reich, [k] was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.
1856 – J. F. Schwarzlose Söhne perfume maker founded. 1857 – Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift scientific journal founded. 1858 – Population: 458,637. [20] 1859 10 May: Alexander von Humboldt funeral. [23] Berlin-Spandau Ship Canal opened. Charlottenburg Canal opened. 1860 – Customs Wall removed. 1861 Moabit and Wedding become part ...
March: Anton Drexler founded a branch of Free Workers' Committee for a Good Peace league in Munich. [5] 17 July: Adolf Hitler saves the life of the 9th Company Commander. 4 August: Adolf Hitler awarded the Iron Cross, 1st Class. 13 October: Adolf Hitler gassed near Ypres. 3 November: Kiel mutiny triggered the German revolution.
This is a timeline of German history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Germany and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Germany .
The Weimar Republic, [d] officially known as the German Reich, [e] was a historical period of Germany from 9 November 1918 to 23 March 1933, during which it was a constitutional federal republic for the first time in history; hence it is also referred to, and unofficially proclaimed itself, as the German Republic.
Nazi Germany was established in January 1933 with the appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany, followed by suspension of basic rights with the Reichstag Fire Decree and the Enabling Act which gave Hitler's regime the power to pass and enforce laws without the involvement of the Reichstag or German president, and de facto ended with ...