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Hyperinflation
Officials believed the trouble was depreciation of the mark in terms of foreign currencies, so they tried remediaing it by buying t in foreign exchange markets. The only thngs they ended up doing was buying worthless money with gold. Byusiness boomed but wages went extinct to where skilled workers got just enough money to support life. The inflation was caused by the government issuing a flood of new money. -
Hiler appointed Chancellor of Germany
Today, President Paul von Hindenburg declares Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazi Party, Chancellor of Germany. Paul actually didn't want Hitler to be Chancellor and appointed Kurt von Schleicher first. The communist Chancellor made the Nazis all the more eager to attain that power and the next voting season, Paul was convinced to appoint Hitler. -
Nazis boycott Jewish businesses
A boycott of Jewish shops was set in place by Joseph Goebbels.The boycott began at 10 a.m. on Saturday, April 1st, 1933, and lasted only a day. SA storm troopers stood outside Jewish establishments trying to repel the German buyers, but were subsequently ignored. It was followed by a series of laws that robbed the Jews of one right after another. Over 400 laws to drive Jews from Germany. -
Night of Long Knives
Also called Operation Hummingbird, the Night of Long Knives was a series of political murders by the Nazis. many of those killed were members of the SA or brownshirts. Hitler saw the street violence as rebellion of his political power, so he suppressed it. -
Germany Inavdes Poland
At 4:45 in the morning one cold September day, 1.5 million German soldiers invade Poland's border. At the same time, they destroyed Polish navy and airfields with U-boats and Luftwaffe or air force. They thought that by taking Poland, the Aryans could have more space and more slaves. To eliminate the USSR from stopping them, Germany signed a nonagerssion pact. -
Hitler Commits Suicide
Hitler kills himself in Führerbunker, Berlin.After saying goodbye to everyone in the bunker, including Bormann, Joseph Goebbels, his family, the secretaries, and some military officers, he and Eva went into the study at 2:30 in the afternoon. Eva Hitler takes a cyandide pill and Adolf shoots himself in the right temple around an hour later. They burned his remains at the Reich Chancellery garden just outside his place of death. -
Stalin Dies
Stalin was the leader of Russia or Soviet Union. The same Soviet Union that took over Poland while Oskar Schindler was alive (1948-1956).By the end of WWII, his health was deteriorating fast and he ended up getting atherosclerosis from his heavy smoking. Stalin suffered from a stroke, but his severe heart attack in October 1945 was his downfall. -
Erection of Berlin Wall
The wall began construction today. it was twelve feet high and four feet thick at the end of consruction. On the top was a masssive pipe that was nearly impossible to climb over. The reinforced concrete wall spelled the end of a flood of people into West Germany and stopped the quarrel over Berlin. Berlin was split into four sides in these days. -
_Polish Crisis
The Polish political crisis of 1968 is also known by the March Events. It is a political protest against the People's Republic of Poland by students and scholars. They were protesting for freedom of speech. It was mainly triggered, however, by the deteriorating economy , rising prices of meat, and panic due to a rumor of a new currency. -
Treaty of Warsaw
Chancellor Willy Brandt, as well as Józef Cyrankiewicz, signed the Treaty of Warsaw that was ratified by the German Bundestag on May 17, 1972. The treaty recognized the border between Germany and Poland as the one set by the Oder-Neisse Line. The Oder-Niesse Line was the border imposed by the Germans in 1945. The treaty also sang of nonviolence.
