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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 ...
Hans von Tschammer und Osten, Nazi Germany's Reichssportführer, called upon all German athletes to join the Hitler Youth. The former French ambassador to Italy, Charles de Chambrun , was shot in the thigh by a woman who blamed him for breaking up her friendship with Mussolini.
The Hindenburg disaster was an airship accident that occurred on May 6, 1937, in Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.The LZ 129 Hindenburg (Luftschiff Zeppelin #129; Registration: D-LZ 129) was a German commercial passenger-carrying rigid airship, the lead ship of the Hindenburg class, the longest class of flying machine and the largest airship by envelope volume. [1]
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%).
Despite the German government using the attack as a justification to go to war with Poland, the Gleiwitz assailants were not Polish but were German SS officers wearing Polish uniforms. During his declaration of war, Hitler did not mention the Gleiwitz incident but grouped all provocations staged by the SS as an alleged "Polish assault" on Germany.
A study by German historian Rüdiger Overmans puts the number of German military dead and missing at 5.3 million, including 900,000 men conscripted from outside of Germany's 1937 borders. [153] Richard Overy estimated in 2014 that about 353,000 civilians were killed in Allied air raids. [ 154 ]
1937 German novels (3 P) S. 1937 in German sport (6 C, 3 P) Pages in category "1937 in Germany" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
The 1937 Nobel Prizes were awarded in Stockholm. The recipients were Clinton Davisson of the United States and George Paget Thomson of the United Kingdom for Physics , Norman Haworth (United Kingdom) and Paul Karrer (Switzerland) for Chemistry , Albert Szent-Györgyi (Hungary) for Physiology or Medicine and Roger Martin du Gard (France) for ...