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There are eight events in German history that are connected to 9 November, five of which had considerable historical consequences: the execution of Robert Blum in 1848, the end of the monarchies in 1918, the Hitler putsch attempt in 1923, the Nazi antisemitic pogroms in 1938 and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
The first Nazi ghetto is completed in Piotrków Trybunalski. 26 October 1939 All territory not directly annexed by Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union is placed under the Generalgouvernment. [38] 28 October 1939 The Generalgouvernment imposes compulsory labor requirements on Jews. [37] 1940 Bergen-Belsen is opened near Celle as a prisoner-of-war ...
He ordered brutal reprisals, resulting in 7,000 arrests and the execution of more than 4,900 people. [138] The failed Ardennes Offensive (16 December 1944 – 25 January 1945) was the last major German offensive on the western front, and Soviet forces entered Germany on 27 January. [139]
Deutsche Gemeinschaft was a branch of the Nazi Party founded in 1919, created for Germans with Volksdeutsche status. [149] It is not to be confused with the post-war right-wing Deutsche Gemeinschaft [ de ] , which was founded in 1949.
Adolf Hitler [a] (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, [c] becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934.
Adolf Hitler, chancellor and dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, committed suicide via a gunshot to the head on 30 April 1945 in the Führerbunker in Berlin [a] after it became clear that Germany would lose the Battle of Berlin, which led to the end of World War II in Europe.
The Nazi Party's precursor, the pan-German nationalist and antisemitic German Workers' Party (DAP), was founded on 5 January 1919. By the early 1920s, the party was renamed the National Socialist German Workers' Party in order to appeal to left-wing workers, [13] a renaming that Hitler initially objected to. [14]
Over the next five months, the Nazis systematically force all opposition political parties to shut down. 5 March: Reichstag Election results in slim majority for Hitler's coalition, though not a majority for the Nazi Party, which polls 17.2 million votes (43.9%) and wins 288 seats. 9 March: Heinrich Himmler becomes Police President in Munich.