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| Adjutant Sachsenhausen Hoess Hoess, Rudolf Franz Ferdinand |  |
| Sachsenhausen Appointed Adjutant of Sachsenhausen concentration camp
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| Administrator Dachau Hoess Hoess, Rudolf Franz Ferdinand | |
| Dachau Appointed Administrator of Dachau concentration camp
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| Alliance of Germany Henlein, Konrad | |
| 28th Mar Sudetenland Hitler promises to support Henlein & make him Viceroy of Czech
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| Alliance of Germany Ribbentrop, Joachim von | |
| Oct Draws up the terms of a pact between Germany, Italy & Japan
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| Oct Visits Mussolini to sign the pact with Italy
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| Oct Rome Draws up the terms of a pact between Germany, Italy & Japan
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| Oct Rome Visits Mussolini to sign the pact with Italy
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| Anschluss Germany Guderian, Heinz | |
| 12th Mar Commands the 2nd Panzer Division through Linz to Vienna during the Anscluss
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| Anschluss Germany Hess, Rudolph | |
| 25th Jan Austrian police raid the Orleans of Seven Vienna HQ
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| 25th Jan Documents are found signed by Hess clearing an Austrian NAZI revolt in the Spring
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| Anschluss Germany Hitler, Adolf | |
| 12th Feb Berlin Hitler orders the Austrian Chancellor to to hand over control of his Government
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| 12th Feb Berlin Informs the Austrian Chancellor to hand control over to the NAZI s
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| 20th Feb Berlin Promises to support the rights of Germans not living in the Reich in the Reichstag
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| 10th Mar Berlin Decides on military occupation before Schuschnigg's plebiscite of March 13th
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| 11th Mar Berlin Makes an ultimatum to Schuschnigg forbidding his referendum on union with Germany
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| 11th Mar Austrian NAZI s in Government appeal to Hitler to restore order
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| 11th Mar Mussolini indicates that he will not intervene to save Austria
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| 12th Mar Berlin Orders Wihelm Stuckart to Vienna to draft a law making him President of Austria
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| 12th Mar Linz German troops occupy Austria which then becomes a Dominion of the Third Reich
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| 12th Mar Linz Proclaims the union of Austria with Germany
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| 12th Mar Vienna Orders Stuckart to Vienna to organize anshcluss n defiance of the Versailles treaty
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| 14th Mar Berlin Chamberlain anounces in the Commons that nothing could have stopped the anshcluss
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| 14th Mar Berlin Makes a triumphal entry into Vienna, where he had lived so long as a tramp
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| 10th April 99.08% of Austrians & Germans vote in favour of the Anscluss
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| Anschluss Germany Hupfauer, Theo | |
| Sent into Austria to set up Worker's Front organizations
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| Anschluss Germany Stuckart, Wihelm | |
| 12th Mar Berlin Ordered by Hitler to Vienna to organize a total anshcluss
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| Armament of Germany Hitler, Adolf | |
| 9th Oct Saarbrucken Announces the strengthening of Germany's western fortifications
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| Arrest of Jews Hitler, Adolf | |
| 9th Nov Berlin 26,000 male Jews arrested
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| Arrest of Jews Muller, Heinrich | |
| Nov Berlin Orders the Gestapo to target wealthier Jews , more than 20,000 are taken into custody
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| Assassination of Rathenau Rathenau, Ernst von | |
| 7th Nov Paris Secretary at the German legation in Paris, assassinated
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| 7th Nov Paris Used to spark of further pogroms in Germany
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| Assassination of Rath Hitler, Adolf | |
| 9th Nov Paris The assassination of vom Rath in Paris is used to spark off "Kristallnacht"
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| Assassination of Rath Rath, Ernst vom | |
| 9th Nov Paris Hershel Grynsxpan wants to assassinate the German Ambassador but shoots Ernst vom Rath
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| 9th Nov Paris Roth's assassination as an excuse for Kristallnacht
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| Cabinet Council Hitler, Adolf | |
| Berlin Sets up a Secret Cabinet Council, probably to impress Chamberlain , but it never meets
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| Capture of Danzig Hitler, Adolf | |
| 24th Nov Danzig Issues a directive to the Commander s in Chief of the Armed Forces to occupy Danzig
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| Chief General Staff Halder Halder, Franz von | |
| Appointed Chief of the German General Staff
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| Chief of Staff Halder, Franz von | |
| Appointed Chief-of-Staff
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| Chief of Staff Model, Otto Moritz Walter | |
| 10th Nov Appointed Chief-of-Staff of IV Corps
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| Chief of Staff Oster, Hans | |
| Appointed Chief-of-Staff of the Abwehr
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| Appointed Chief-of-Staff, Abwehr, German military intelligence
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| Chief of the High Command Keitel Keitel, Wilhelm | |
| 4th Feb Appointed Chief of the High Command of the Armed forces, Oberkommando der Wehrmacht
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| Colonel General Milch Milch, Erhard | |
| Milch commands the Luftflotte V in the Norwegian campaign
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| Milch commands the Luftflotte V in the Norwegian campaign
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| Commander 8th Company Langkeit, Willi | |
| Appointed Commander of No 8 Company in the 36th Panzer Regiment
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| Commander Army Group 5 List, Siegmund Wilhelm von | |
| Appointed to command & establish Army Group Five in Austria
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| Commander Fighter Wing 53 Junck, Werner | |
| Appointed Commander of Fighter Wing 53
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| Commander Fuehrer Begleit Rommel, Erwin Johannes Eugen | |
| Appointed Commander of the Fuehrer Begleit Battalion, Hitler's personal security unit
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| Commander in Chief Brauchitsch, Walter von | |
| Appointed Commander -in-Chief of the Wehrmacht
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| Commander in Chief Goering, Herman | |
| 4th Feb Berlin Appointed Commander -in-Chief
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| Commander in Chief Hitler, Adolf | |
| 4th Feb Berlin Appointed Commander -in-Chief, Wehrmacht
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| Commander Luftflotte 1 Kesselring, Albrecht | |
| 1st Oct Appointed Commander Luftflotte 1, based in Berlin
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| Commander Luftflotte 3 Sperrle, Hugo | |
| Appointed Commander of the Luftwaffengruppe Drei
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| Conference of Hosbach Neurath, Constantin Freiher von | |
| Hosbach Attends the Hossbach conference where Hitler announces his aggressive foreign policy
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| Conference of Munich Goering, Herman | |
| 28th Sep Munich Draws up the draft for the memorandum which Mussolini uses for the Munich Agreement
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| Conference of Munich Hitler, Adolf | |
| 28th Sep Munich Hitler wants a conference to settle the Czech crisis, Mussolini chooses Munich
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| 28th Sep Munich Holds a conference with Mussolini & the Prime Minister s of France & Britain
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| 29th Sep Kufstein Boards Mussolini's train prior to the Munich Conference , discusses invading Czech
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| 30th Sep Munich Signs the Munich Agreement
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| Conference of Munich Neurath, Constantin Freiher von | |
| 28th Sep Munich Helps draw up a draft memorandum which Mussolini uses for framing the Munich Agreement
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| Conference of Munich Weizsacker, Ernst Freiherr von | |
| 28th Sep Munich Helps draw up a draft memorandum which Mussolini uses for framing the Munich Agreement
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| Constitution of Germany Hitler, Adolf | |
| Feb Berlin The last Cabinet meeting of the Third Reich
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| Feb Berlin With Hitler's approval the CAbinet can promulgate decrees which have the status of law
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| Crisis Blomberg Fritsch Blomberg, Werner von | |
| 25th Jan Hitler & Goering were witnesses at Blomberg's wedding
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| 25th Jan It is revealed to Hitler that Blomberg had married a whore & he resigns
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| Feb Capri Blomberg goes into exile
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| 4th Feb Discredited by a marriage to a prostitute & forced to resign
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| 4th Feb Used by Hitler for him to take control of the armed forces
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| Crisis Blomberg Fritsch Gruhn, Eva | |
| 12th Jan Hitler attends the wedding of von Blomberg to Eva Gruhn, allegedly a former prostitute
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| Crisis Blomberg Fritsch Heldorf, Wolf Heinrich Graf von | |
| Jan Gathers embarassong evidence about von Blomberg's new wife, Eva Gruhn
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| Jan Presents his dossier on von Blomberg's wife to Goering
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| Crisis Blomberg Fritsch Hitler, Adolf | |
| Dismsses Blomberg & Fritsch after contrived revelations about their personal lives
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| Jan Dismisses 16 high ranking officers during the Blomberg-Fritsch crisis
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| Jan Hitler uses the crisis to appoint himself supreme commander of the armed forces
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| 12th Jan Hitler attends the wedding of von Blomberg to Eva Gruhn, allegedly a former prostitute
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| 4th Feb Blomberg is forced to resign
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| Crisis Blomberg Fritsch Leeb, Wilhelm Ritter von | |
| Forced into retirement during the Blomberg-Fritsch crisis
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| Crisis Blomberg Fritsch Rundstedt, Karl Rudolf von | |
| Retired after Hitler's purge of the high command after the Blomberg-Fritsch crisis
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| Crisis Czech Hitler, Adolf | |
| 28th Sep Munich Hitler wants a conference to settle the Czech crisis, Mussolini chooses Munich
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| Death of Kautsky, Karl Kautsky, Karl | |
| Death of Karl Kautsky
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| Death of Rathenau, Ernst von Rathenau, Ernst von | |
| 7th Nov Paris Death of Ernst von Rathenau, assassinated
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| Death of Rath, Ernst vom Rath, Ernst vom | |
| 9th Nov Paris Death of Ernst von Rath, assassinated
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| Demonstration Anti Jewish Hitler, Adolf | |
| 9th Nov Berlin After the assassination of von Rath by a Jewish Pole Hitler provokes anti-Jewish riots
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| Demonstration Nazis Schuschnigg, Kurt von | |
| 11th Mar Austrian NAZI s take to the streets in Austria & appeal to Hitler to restore order
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| Demonstration Nazis Hitler, Adolf | |
| 11th Mar Austrian NAZI s take to the streets in Austria & appeal to Hitler to restore order
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| Diplomacy of Germany Goering, Herman | |
| Oct Berlin Assures the Slovak leader, Durcansky, that Germany will support Slovak independence
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| Diplomacy of Germany Hitler, Adolf | |
| 12th Feb Berlin Schuschigg is forced by Hitler to agree an amnesty for imprisoned Austrian NAZI s
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| 28th Mar Berlin Advises the German population in Czech to demand enough to break-up the Cezh state
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| 24th April Berlin The Sudeten German's demands for autonomy is rejected by the Prague Government
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| 12th May Manzhouguo Recognizes the Japanese puppet state in Manchuria, Manzhouguo
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| 21st May Berlin "It is my unalterable intention to smash Czech by military action in the near future"
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| 18th June Berlin Says he will only take action against Czech if Britain & France do not intervene
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| 3rd Sep Berlin Pays a State visit to Mussolini in Rome
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| 12th Sep Nuremberg Germa In a speech at Nuremberg Hitler demands that Benes meets the German Czech claims
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| 15th Sep Berchestgaden Receives Chamberlain & confirms his determination to annex the Sudetenland
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| 15th Sep Berchtesgaden Receives Chamberlain & confirms his determination to annex the Sudetenland
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| 18th Sep Sudetenland Britain & France wish to persuade Czech to cede areas greater than 50% to Germany
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| 22nd Sep Bad Godesberg Chamberlain offers the dissolution of the Czech Alliance s with France & Russia
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| 22nd Sep Bad Godesberg Chamberlain visits Hitler & offers peaceful inclusion of Sudetenland within the Reich
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| 28th Sep Berlin Mussolini sends his Ambassador to agree the action Hitler wants in the Sudetenland
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| 28th Sep Sudetenland The French Ambassador visits Hitler & agrees occupation of the Sudetenland 10th Oct
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| 29th Sep Kufstein Boards Mussolini's train prior to the Munich Conference , discusses invading Czech
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| Oct Berlin Agrees German-Italian arbitration to settle a frontier between Hungary & Slovakia
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| 6th Nov Berlin At Weimar makes a speech denouncing Churchill, Eden & Cooper as warmongers
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| 10th Nov Berlin The USAAmbassador is withdrawn from Berlin after the events of "crystal night"
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| 6th Dec Berlin Signs a declaration renouncing Germany's claim to Alsace-Lorraine
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| 6th Dec Berlin Signs a declaration to hold talks on mutual relations
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| Diplomacy of Germany Model, Otto Moritz Walter | |
| Sent as a spy to check the defensive fortifications along the Sudeten border
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| Diplomacy of Germany Ribbentrop, Joachim von | |
| 24th Oct Berlin Hosts the Polish Ambassador, Jozef Lipski & demands the return of Danzig
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| 6th Dec Berlin Signed declaration renouncing Germany's claim to Alsace-Lorraine
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| 6th Dec Berlin Visits the French Premier, Georges Bonnet, & signs a German-French agreement
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| Director War College Rommel Rommel, Erwin Johannes Eugen | |
| Vienna Appointed Director of the War College at Wiener Neustadt
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| Dismissal of Blomberg Hitler, Adolf | |
| 4th Feb Berlin Conservative s such as Blomberg, Fritsch & Neurath appointed by Hindenburg are removed
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| Dismissal of Fritsch Hitler, Adolf | |
| 4th Feb Berlin Conservative s such as Blomberg, Fritsch & Neurath appointed by Hindenburg are removed
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| Dismissal of Leeb Hitler, Adolf | |
| Jan Forces von Leeb into retirement during the Blomberg-Fritsch crisis
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| Dismissal of Neurath Hitler, Adolf | |
| 4th Feb Berlin Conservative s such as Blomberg, Fritsch & Neurath appointed by Hindenburg are removed
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| Dismissal of Neurath Neurath, Constantin Freiher von | |
| 4th Feb Berlin Dismissed by Hitler as Foreign Minister
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| Dismissal of Papen Papen, Franz von | |
| 4th Feb Berlin Dismissed by Hitler as Ambassador to Austria
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| Education of Mengele Mengele, Josef | |
| Obtains a doctorate in medicine
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| Emigration Office Eichmann, Adolf | |
| Vienna Founds the Jewish Office of Emmigration
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| Exile of Blomberg Blomberg, Werner von | |
| Feb Capri Blomberg goes into exile
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| Exile of Jews Eichmann, Adolf | |
| Expels 150,000 Jews from Austria
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| Fuehrer Chancellor of Germany Hitler, Adolf | |
| 4th Feb Berlin Appoints von Ribbentrop Foreirgn Minister
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| 4th Feb Berlin Assumes the leadership of the Ministry of War
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| Generalmajor Jodl Jodl, Alfred | |
| Appointed General-Major
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| Head OJE Eichmann Eichmann, Adolf | |
| Vienna Appointed Head of the Jewish Office of Emmigration
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| Independence of Czech Rep Hitler, Adolf | |
| 21st May Berlin "It is my unalterable intention to smash Czech by military action in the near future"
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| Independence of Sudetenland Henlein, Konrad | |
| Sudetenland Asks for complete autonomy for Sudeten Germans in the Karlsbad Decrees
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| 24th April Sudetanland Henlein demands full independence for the Sudeten Germans
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| 4th Sep Sudetenland Henlein rejects Benes' offer of full autonomy for Sudetenland
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| Invasion of Austria Hitler, Adolf | |
| 10th Mar Decides on military occupation before Schuschnigg's plebiscite of March 13th
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| 11th Mar Berlin German troops are prepared to invade Austria
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| 13th Mar German troops enter Austria
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| 14th Mar Hitler lays a wreath on his parents grave in Austria
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| Invasion of Bohemia Hitler, Adolf | |
| 11th Mar Berlin Decides to issue an ultimatum to annex Bohemia & Moravia
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| 11th Mar Bohemia An ultimatum is drafted on Hitler's orders by Keitel calling the Czechs to surrender
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| Invasion of Czech Beck, Ludwig | |
| London Sends an emissary but fails to gain support against Germany if Hitler invade s Czech
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| Invasion of Czech Hitler, Adolf | |
| 18th May German troop movements are reported near the Bohemian border
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| 21st May Berlin "It is my unalterable intention to smash Czech by military action in the near future"
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| 18th June Berlin Says he will only take action against Czech if Britain & France do not intervene
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| 15th Sep Berchestgaden Receives Chamberlain & confirms his determination to annex the Sudetenland
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| 15th Sep Berchtesgaden Receives Chamberlain & confirms his determination to annex the Sudetenland
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| 22nd Sep Bad Godesberg Chamberlain visits Hitler & offers peaceful inclusion of Sudetenland within the Reich
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| 29th Sep Kufstein Boards Mussolini's train prior to the Munich Conference , discusses invading Czech
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| 1st Oct Sudetenland Czech loses 11,000 sqr miles of territory
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| 1st Oct Sudetenland German troops march into the Sudetenland, the promised plebiscite is never held
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| Invasion of Czech Keitel, Wilhelm | |
| Believes Germany is not strong enough to break through the Czech fortifications
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| Invasion of Danzig Hitler, Adolf | |
| 24th Nov Danzig Issues a directive to the Commander s of the Armed Forces for the occupation of Danzig
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| Invasion of Holland Hitler, Adolf | |
| 24th Aug Berlin Consults the Army to occupy the Netherlands & Belgium & how long it would take
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| Invasion of Poland Hitler, Adolf | |
| 27th Sep Berlin Troops pass before Hitler to the indifference of the Berliners, in contrast to 1914
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| 24th Nov Berlin Issues a directive to the Commander s in Chief of the Armed Forces to occupy Danzig
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| Invasion of Sudetanland Hitler, Adolf | |
| 15th Sep Berchestgaden Receives Chamberlain & confirms his determination to annex the Sudetenland
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| 15th Sep Berchtesgaden Receives Chamberlain & confirms his determination to annex the Sudetenland
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| 22nd Sep Bad Godesberg Chamberlain visits Hitler & offers peaceful inclusion of Sudetenland within the Reich
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| Invasion of Sudetenland Hitler, Adolf | |
| 1st Oct Sudetenland German troops march into the Sudetenland, the promised plebiscite is never held
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| 1st Oct Sudetenland Troops enter the Sudetenland, the day after Hitler has signed the Munich Agreement
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| Invention VI Rocket Braun, Werner von | |
| Peenemunde A prototype of the VI is developed
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| Kristallnacht Goebbels, Paul Joseph | |
| 9th Nov Advises party leaders anti-Jewish demonstrations should not be discouraged
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| Kristallnacht Heydrich, Reinhard | |
| 9th Nov Instructs the police not to interfere
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| 10th Nov Reports to Goering 815 Jewish shops & 171 homes destroyed & 191 synagogues set fire
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| 10th Nov Reports to Goering that 74 Jews had been killed & 20,000 arrested
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| Kristallnacht Hitler, Adolf | |
| 9th Nov Berlin 26,000 male Jews arrested
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| 9th Nov Berlin Synagogues are set on fire, cemeteries violated & Jewish buildings destroyed
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| 10th Nov Berlin 191 synagogues & 177 Jewish appartments are burnt down
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| 10th Nov Berlin 22 Germans are arrested trying to stop the violence
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| 10th Nov Berlin 7,600 Jewish businesses are destroyed & there are 236 deaths
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| Kristallnacht Muller, Heinrich | |
| Nov Berlin Instructs the Gestapo to liaise with the police to ensure Jewish property is destroyed
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| Kristallnacht Rath, Ernst vom | |
| 9th Nov Paris Rath's assasination is used as an excuse for Kristallnacht
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| Legislation Nuremburg Laws Hitler, Adolf | |
| 3rd Dec Berlin Jewish property is "legally" confiscated
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| Lieutenant General Fromm Fromm, Friedrich | |
| 1st Jan Appointed Lieutenant-General
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| Lieutenant General Schmundt Schmundt, Rudolf | |
| Appointed Lieutenant General
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| Linz Giesler, Paul | |
| Linz Requested by Hitler to rebuild Linz
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| Marriage of Blomberg, Werner von Blomberg, Werner von | |
| 12th Jan A marriage used by Hitler to cause a scandal & take over command of the armed forces
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