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The year 1989 was the last year of the West German economy as a separate and separable institution. From 1990 the positive and negative distortions generated by German reunification set in, and the West German economy began to reorient itself toward economic and political union with what had been East Germany. The economy turned gradually and ...
While being under German control, the Reichswerke had the great majority of its assets and workforce located outside of Germany, since it had grown largely by absorbing non-German companies from conquered territories before and during the war. 70 per cent of its net assets and 76.5 per cent of its workforce were outside of the Reich by 1943 ...
24 June: Hitler incarcerated; German Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau assassinated, some involved are in the Organisation Consul. July: Inflation hits the German economy: 670 RM = 1 US$ 27 July: Hitler released. August: 2,000 RM = US$1; October: 4,500 RM = US$1; 28 October: Benito Mussolini establishes his Fascist dictatorship in Italy.
The Timeline of the Weimar Republic lists in chronological order the major events of the Weimar Republic, beginning with the final month of the German Empire and ending with the Enabling Act of 1933 that concentrated all power in the hands of Adolf Hitler. A second chronological section lists important cultural, scientific and commercial events ...
In the years following the Spanish Civil War, Hitler gave several possible motives for German involvement. Among these were the distraction it provided from German re-militarisation; the prevention of the spread of communism to Western Europe; the creation of a state friendly to Germany to disrupt Britain and France; and the possibilities for economic expansion. [3]
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. See also the list of German monarchs and list of chancellors of Germany and the list of years in Germany
The Nazi Party, led by Adolf Hitler, blamed Germany's ruined economy on the harshness of the Versailles Treaty, on faults of democracy, and on the stab-in-the-back legend. In Germany, as in post-Austro-Hungarian Austria , citizens recalled the pre-war years under autocratic rule as prosperous but the post-war years under weak democratic rule as ...
Spain becomes a dictatorship with Francisco Franco as the head of the new government serving until his death in 1975. [54] April 3 Hitler orders the German military to start planning for Fall Weiss, the codename for the attack on Poland, planned to be launched on August 25, 1939. April 4