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The first rally of Germany's Protestant Reich Church was held at the Sports Palace in Berlin, and attracted 20,000 German Christians, but a speech by the keynote speaker, Berlin church leader Reinhold Krause, was so extreme in its anti-Semitism that it discredited the Nazi-supported institution. Dr.
It was the first of a series of referendums held by the German cabinet under Chancellor Adolf Hitler, after the cabinet conferred upon itself the ability to hold referendums on 14 July 1933. [ 3 ] The referendum question was on a separate ballot from the one used for the elections.
By July 1933, the boycott had forced the resignation of the board of the Hamburg America Line. German imports to the US were reduced by nearly a quarter compared with the prior year, and the impact was weighing heavily on the regime. Joseph Goebbels expressed that it was a cause for "much concern" at the first Nuremberg party rally that August.
By 1933, old American fears of Communist threats had faded, and the business community, as well as newspaper editors, were calling for diplomatic recognition. After the Soviets promised they would not engage in espionage, Roosevelt used his presidential authority to normalize relations in November 1933. [168]
Parliamentary elections were held in Germany on 12 November 1933. They were the first since the Nazi Party seized complete power with the enactment of the Enabling Act in March. All opposition parties had been banned by the Law Against the Formation of Parties (14 July 1933), and voters were presented with a single list containing Nazis and 22 ...
6 November – Else Ackermann, German physician, pharmacologist and politician (died 2019) 8 November – Lothar Fischer, German sculptor (died 2004) 9 November – Renate Ewert, German actress (died 1966) 13 November. Karl-Otto Alberty, German actor (died 2015) Peter Härtling, German writer, poet, publisher and journalist (died 2017)
November 7 – Jackie Joseph, American actress; November 9 Jim Perry, American game show host (d. 2015) Ed Corney, American bodybuilder (d. 2019) November 10 Ronald Evans, American astronaut (d. 1990) Mack Rice, American singer and songwriter (d. 2016) November 11 – Kay Arthur, American Bible teacher, speaker and author; November 14 – Fred ...
In December 1941, when the United States entered the war against Germany, 250 American firms owned more than $450 million of German assets. [13] Major American companies with investments in Germany included General Motors, IT&T, Eastman Kodak, Standard Oil, Singer, International Harvester, Gillette, Coca-Cola, Kraft, Westinghouse, and United Fruit.