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The Death Valley Germans (as dubbed by the media) were a family of four tourists from Germany who went missing in Death Valley National Park, on the California–Nevada border, in the United States, on 23 July 1996. [1] Despite an intense search and rescue operation, no trace of the family was discovered and the search was called off. In 2009 ...
22 June – The DELAG Zeppelin dirigible, Deutschland, makes the first commercial passenger flight from Friedrichshafen to Düsseldorf in Germany. The flight takes nine hours. 16 August – Berliner FV, German association football club founded. Full date unknown Gymnasium Lerchenfeld is founded in Hamburg. [1]
The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact was signed, promising mutual non-aggression between Germany and the Soviet Union and agreeing to a division of much of Eastern Europe between those two countries. 1 September: Invasion of Poland: Germany invaded Poland. 22 December Genthin rail disaster: 1940 9 April Operation Weserübung: Germany invades Denmark ...
By 1900, Germany was the dominant power on the European continent and its rapidly expanding industry had surpassed Britain's while provoking it in a naval arms race. Germany led the Central Powers in World War I, but was defeated, partly occupied, forced to pay war reparations, and stripped of its colonies and significant territory along its ...
4 January — World War II: (Axis powers): Luftwaffe General Hermann Göring assumes control of most war industries in Germany.; 10 January — World War II: Mechelen Incident: A German plane carrying secret plans for the invasion of western Europe makes a forced landing in Belgium, leading to mobilization of defense forces in the Low Countries.
The body of Erik Jan Hanussen (43), an Austrian Jewish publicist who claimed to have psychic powers and to be a confidant of Adolf Hitler, was found in a field in Zossen, Germany, outside Berlin in late April 1933, [100] a month after he had last been seen on 25 March in the city. He had been shot execution-style twice in the back of the head ...
Valley of Death (Polish: Dolina Ĺmierci) in Fordon, Bydgoszcz, northern Poland, is a site of Nazi German mass murder committed at the beginning of World War II and a mass grave of 1,200–1,400 Poles and Jews murdered in October and November 1939 by the local German Selbstschutz and the Gestapo.
The 1910s (pronounced "nineteen-tens" often shortened to the "'10s" or the "Tens") was the decade that began on January 1, 1910, and ended on December 31, 1919.. The 1910s represented the culmination of European militarism which had its beginnings during the second half of the 19th century.