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Holidays in Nazi Germany were primarily centred on important political events, serving as a form of political education and reinforcing propaganda themes. [1] Major national holidays were therefore controlled by Joseph Goebbels at the Reich Propaganda Ministry , and were often accompanied by mass meetings, parades, speeches and radio broadcasts.
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.
As the Allies began to advance on Nazi Germany, the SS began to evacuate the first concentration camps in summer 1944. [38] Thousands of prisoners were killed before the evacuation due to being ill or unable to walk. At the end of 1944, the overcrowding of camps began to take its toll on the prisoners.
The Reichsgewerkschaft der Gehörlosen Deutschlands, abbreviated and stylized as ReGeDe, was known in English as The Reich Union of the Deaf of Germany, and was founded in 1927 in Weimar, Germany as a social organization. By the Easter of 1933, ReGeDe was part of the National Socialists' public welfare program.
In remembrance of the November pogroms against German Jews in 1938, 9 November is a day of remembrance in Germany for the victims of Nazism — in addition to the official national Holocaust memorial day on 27 January and the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp (January 1945). 27 January is also the international ...
The Eastern Front was a theatre of World War II which primarily involved combat between the nations and allies of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.Combat in the Eastern Front began with the two powers remaining peaceful towards each other, with the annexation of countries such as Albania and portions of Poland by Germany and its allies, and the annexation of Finland and the rest of Poland by ...
Easter Sunday – 2d: Easter Monday: Ostermontag: Easter Sunday + 1d: until 1967 and in 1990 Labour Day: Internationaler Kampf- und Feiertag der Werktätigen für Frieden und Sozialismus: 1 May: Liberation Day: Tag der Befreiung: 8 May: until 1967 and in 1985 Victory Day: Tag des Sieges: 9 May: only in 1975 Ascension Day: Christi Himmelfahrt ...
The fortress Ordensburg Marienburg in Malbork, founded in 1274, the world's largest brick castle and the Teutonic Order's headquarters on the river Nogat.. The medieval German Ostsiedlung (literally Settling eastwards), also known as the German eastward expansion or East colonization refers to the expansion of German culture, language, states, and settlements to vast regions of Northeastern ...