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12 January – Luise Rainer, actress (died 2014) 20 February – Rudolf Beckmann, SS officer (died 1943) 22 June – Herbert Quandt, German industrialist (died 1982) 1 August – Gerda Taro, Polish-German war photographer (died 1937) 11 September – Gerhard Schröder, politician (died 1989) 18 September – Josef Tal, German-born Israeli ...
10,072 mentally ill and disabled people killed and burnt. Between 1942 and 1945 another 4,422 people with this kind of diagnosis were killed near Hadamar. In total, more than 275,000 people were killed during Aktion T4, many of them in German-controlled Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland. Rüsselsheim massacre: 26 August 1944: Rüsselsheim: 6
Uprising of 1953 in East Germany: 100,000 protestors gathered at dawn, demanding the reinstatement of old work quotas and, later, the resignation of the East German government. At noon German police trapped many of the demonstrators in an open square; Soviet tanks fired on the crowd, killing hundreds and ending the protest. 1954: 4 July
German mistreatment of Soviet prisoners of war – at least 3.3 million Soviet POWs died in German custody, out of 5.7 million captured; this figure represents 57% POW casualty rate. Le Paradis massacre, May 1940, British soldiers of the Royal Norfolk Regiment, were captured by the SS and subsequently murdered.
died at either the Groß-Rosen or Dora concentration camp Walter Benjamin: 1892–1940: German: literary critic and philosopher Jewish: suicide at Portbou to avoid deportation Felix Fechenbach: 1894–1933: German: journalist and activist Jewish: executed during the deportation to Dachau Walter Hasenclever: 1890–1940: German: expressionist ...
Author Bill James, in his book, The Man from the Train, alleges that a man known as Paul Mueller, a German migrant, may have been responsible for the murders. Mueller was the only suspect in the 1898 murder of a Massachusetts family, and James believes Mueller killed dozens of victims based on research in American newspaper archives.
[18] [19] Black people were placed at the bottom of the racial scale of non-Aryans along with Jews, Slavs, and Romani/Roma people. [20] Some Black people managed to work as actors in films about the African colonies. Others were hired for the German Africa Show, a human zoo touring between 1937 and 1940. [21]
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.