GERMANY 1941 22 June 1945 27 January With the invasion of Auschwitz is liberated by 1917 9 April the Soviet Union, Hitler Soviet troops starts the racist war With German support, of extermination for 1953 17 June Vladimir Ilyich Lenin travels ‘Lebensraum in the East’ to Russia The People’s Uprising in 1938 1945 7-8 May East Berlin and the GDR is violently suppressed 29 September Capitulation of the Signing of the ‘Munich German ‘Wehrmacht’ Agreement’ Armed Forces 1918 9 November 1968 2 June Philipp Scheidemann (SPD) 1961 13 August 1954 4 July Murder of the student proclaims the German Building of the Berlin Wall Benno Ohnesorg by the 1977 Republic 1933 30 January Germany becomes football 1914 1946 1 October world champions for the West Berlin policeman Night of 17 into 1938 1942 20 January Karl-Heinz Kurras Night of 1st into President of the Reich, Paul Delivery of judgements first time von Hindenburg appoints Meeting of the so-called 18 October 1983 29 March 8-10 November against the main After years of ostracism, a sporting event 1990 3 October 2nd August Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of ‘Wannsee Conference’ war criminals in the gives many Germans a reason to be self- Suicide of RAF terrorists Entry of the ‘Greens’ into NOW Germany Organised pogroms -confident once again. Millions of Ger- 1989 9 November Reunification of Germany By marching into Luxemburg, At the invitation of the Chief of the Reich Nuremberg Trials mans in West and East Germany are bre- 23 January Andreas Baader, Gudrun the Bundestag 28 June against the German Jewish 1963 the German Empire begins 1919 1923 11 January Hindenburg appoints Hitler as Chancellor Main Security Office, Reinhard Heydrich, athlessly glued to the radio broadcast as Ensslin and Jan-Carl Opening of the Berlin Wall population 15 senior officials of Nazi Germany meet Germany, the clear outsider, defeats Hun- the First World War of a government of the Nazi Party and the Konrad Adenauer and 28 October and the border between Signing of the Versailles Beginning of the ‘Occupation ‘German National People’s Party’ DNVP). The in a villa in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee. gary 3:2 in a dramatic final in Bern. This 1969 Raspe in the Stuttgart- The meeting’s aim is to finalise decisions surprise victory and the start of the ‘eco- Charles de Gaulle sign the 7 December the Federal Republic of Peace Treaty of the Ruhr’ Nazi Party is the strongest party in the Reich- 1970 Stammheim jail stag, the national parliament, but requires a about organising the killing of the Euro- nomic miracle’ inspire fear and concern in ‘German-French Treaty of Federal Chancellor Willy Germany and the GDR coalition partner to form government. Hitler pean Jews. The in-principle resolution other countries about renewed German Willy Brandt kneels before had already been made in 1941 for what arrogance. Many consider the victory to Friendship’ Brandt leads the first uses the Reichstag fire in February 1933 to 1949 24 May Encouraged by the Soviet Union’s reform is referred to as the ‘Final Solution’. Par- be the true foundation act for the Federal a Holocaust monument in enforce numerous laws, which abolish demo- social-liberal coalition policies, East German citizens also start ticipants determine the timing of mass Republic. cracy and establish a dictatorship. Following Warsaw to protest. The mass exodus of GDR ci- killings with a cold efficiency, clarifying Proclamation Hindenburg’s death, Hitler assumes his offi- 1 September tizens via Hungary and Czechoslovakia, 1939 responsibilities and logistical issues. of the ‘Constitution ce and takes on the title of Führer and Reich In a humble gesture, Will Brandt creates and the ‘Leipzig Monday demonstrations’ Chancellor. of the Federal Republic new worldwide awareness of Germany. place the state leadership under enormo- 9 November Germany begins the Spontaneously, the Chancellor kneels be- 1923 of Germany’ us pressure. In a press conference misun- Second World War with its fore the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising monu- derstanding, SED party official Günther Hitler unsuccessfully invasion of Poland ment and demonstratively honours the Schabowski announces the immediate victims of German war-crimes in Poland. introduction of freedom of movement for attempts to gain power Conservative circles in Germany initially GDR citizens. Thousands throng straight in a putsch 1944 20 July express criticism, but Brandt becomes the to the border crossings in Berlin. The Wall role-model for a generation of social-libe- has fallen. 15 September Conspirators linked with ral Germans, and not just for his symbolic 1935 1949 7 October action. Today, the site of Brandt’s kne- Claus Schenk Graf von eling is named ‘Skwer Willy’ego Brandta’ Proclamation of the Stauffenberg attempt The ‘German Democratic (Willy Brandt Square) ‘Nuremberg Laws’ at the to overthrow the Nazi Republic’ (GDR) is ‘Nazi Party Rally’ dictatorship established

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