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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 ...
During this time, American troops arrested a German soldier named Karl von Loesch, an assistant to Hitler's personal translator Paul-Otto Schmidt, as he was retreating from Treffurt, near Eisenach. [4] Schmidt had instructed him to destroy all the top-secret papers which he had placed in archives.
Uprising of 1953 in East Germany: 100,000 protestors gathered at dawn, demanding the reinstatement of old work quotas and, later, the resignation of the East German government. At noon German police trapped many of the demonstrators in an open square; Soviet tanks fired on the crowd, killing hundreds and ending the protest. 1954: 4 July
Newsreel footage of the 6 May 1937 Hindenburg disaster, where the zeppelin LZ 129 Hindenburg crashed and burned down, was filmed by several companies. The film is frequently shown with narration, by WLS (AM) announcer Herbert Morrison , who was narrating a field recording on to an acetate disc , and was present to watch the zeppelin's arrival.
A striking change noted in the Hossbach Memorandum is Hitler's new evaluation of Britain: from a prospective ally in 1928 in the Zweites Buch to a "hate-inspired antagonist" in 1937 that was unwilling and unable to accept a strong Germany. The change was a complete reversal of Hitler's view of Britain.
Nazi Germany Deutsche Panzer (German Panzer) Walter Ruttmann: 1940 Nazi Germany Deutsche Waffenschmieden (German Weapons-Forge) Walter Ruttmann: 1940 Nazi Germany Feldzug in Polen (Campaign in Poland) 1941 Canada Churchill's Island: Stuart Legg: 1941 Canada Inside Fighting China: Stuart Legg: 1941 USA Kukan: Rey Scott: 1941 Kingdom of Italy
The government of Nazi Germany recommended German artists depict at least four children in illustrations of German families. [ 40 ] U.S. Representative William B. Bankhead of Alabama, a Democrat , won re-election as the Speaker of the United States House of representatives, receiving 324 of 421 votes cast (76.78%).
Germany assumed full control in France in 1942, Italy in 1943, and Hungary in 1944. Although Japan was a powerful ally, the relationship was distant, with little co-ordination or co-operation. For example, Germany refused to share their formula for synthetic oil from coal until late in the war. [84]