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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 Memel Territory, separated from Germany since 1920 and annexed by Lithuania, was returned to Germany, under a German–Lithuanian treaty concluded after the 1939 German ultimatum to Lithuania. The preparations for the Second World War were also made in the economic sphere, as the German government exerted pressure on weaker governments to ...
Hitler completely reorganized the economic landscape in Nazi Germany. The Reichswirtschaftskammer ("Reich Economic Chamber") consisted of over two hundred organizations and national councils involved in industry, commercial, and craft lines. Large public works programs, such as the construction of the Autobahn, stimulated the economy and ...
Boundaries of the planned "Greater Germanic Reich," not including puppet states and protectorates. [1] [2] [3]The Greater Germanic Reich (German: Großgermanisches Reich), fully styled the Greater Germanic Reich of the German Nation (German: Großgermanisches Reich der Deutschen Nation), [4] was the official state name of the political entity that Nazi Germany tried to establish in Europe ...
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 ...