Today in Germany History (Part 11)
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Historical Events
Results 1001 - 1,100 of 1,716
1941-06-24 - Germans advanced into Russia & took Vilna, Brest-Litovsk & Kaunas
1941-06-25 - Germans invade Dubno Poland, giving permission to Ukrainians to do whatever they want to 12,000 Jews living there
1941-06-27 - Bialystok Poland falls to Germany
1941-06-28 - German & Romanian soldiers kill 11,000 Jews in Kishinev
1941-06-28 - German troops occupy Galicia Poland
1941-06-30 - World War II: Operation Barbarossa - Germany captures Lviv, Ukraine.
1941-07-05 - German occupiers disband political parties
1941-07-11 - German troops attack Dnjepr
1941-07-26 - "Camp Amersfoort" opened by Germany occupiers
1941-07-27 - German army enters Ukraine
1941-07-30 - German occupiers forbid SDAP, VDB, ARP, RKSP, CHU & SGP in Netherlands
1941-08-01 - Luftwaffe bombs German 23rd division
1941-08-02 - German 11st Army surrounds 20 Russian divisions at Oeman
1941-08-03 - German troops conquer Roslavl USSR
1941-08-12 - French Marshal Henri Petain gave full support to Nazi Germany
1941-08-17 - German raider attacks Dutch SS Kota Nopan
1941-08-25 - English & Russian troops attack pro-German Iran
1941-08-25 - German troops conquer Nowgorod, Leningrad
1941-08-29 - German Einsatzkommando in Russia kills 1,469 Jewish children
1941-09-01 - Jews living in Germany are required to wear a yellow Jewish star
1941-09-04 - US destroyer Greer fires on German submarine U-652
1941-09-06 - All Jews over age 6 in German territories ordered to wear a star
1941-09-08 - Blockade of Leningrad (St Petersburg) by Germany begins
1941-09-11 - World War II: The U.S. Navy is ordered to attack German U-boats.
1941-09-12 - 1st German ship in WW II captured by US ship (Busko)
1941-09-16 - German armour troops surround Kiev Ukraine
1941-09-16 - Hitler orders for every dead German, 100 Yugoslavian be killed
1941-09-19 - German army conquerors Kiev
1941-09-19 - Nazi's force German Jews, 6 & over to wear Jewish stars
1941-09-23 - German air raid on Russ naval base Kronstadt (battleship Marat sinks)
1941-09-24 - Bomb explosion in German headquarter in Hotel Continental in Kiev
1941-09-30 - German assault on Moscow: operation-Taifun, begins
1941-10-02 - Germans launch attack on Moscow
1941-10-06 - German army occupies Briansk, USSR
1941-10-07 - German army occupies Viarma, USSR
1941-10-10 - German U-boat torpedoes US destroyer Kearney
1941-10-15 - 1st mass deportation of German Jews to Eastern Europe
1941-10-16 - Germany advances within 60 miles (96 K) of Moscow
1941-10-25 - Germany attacks Moscow
1941-10-30 - USS Reuben James torpedoed by Germans, even though US is not in war
1941-10-31 - Prior to US in WW II, Germany torpedoes US destroyer Reuben James
1941-11-02 - German troops occupy Rostov
1941-11-12 - Germany's drive to take Moscow halted
1941-11-13 - German Abweht consults with Chetnikleider Draza Mihailovic
1941-11-16 - German troops conquer Kertsh (probably)
1941-11-20 - German Q/pirate ship Kormoran sinks near Australia
1941-11-22 - British cruiser Devonshire sinks German sub Atlantis
1941-11-23 - German troops conquer Klin, at NW of Moscow
1941-11-24 - Indian infantry attacks German tanks at Sidi Omar
1941-11-25 - German Jews in Netherlands declared stateless (lose of nationality)
1941-11-27 - USSR begins a counter offensive causes Germany to retreat
1941-11-28 - German troops vacate Rostov
1941-12-01 - British cruiser Devonshire sinks German sub Python
1941-12-07 - German siege of Tobruk after 8 months ends
1941-12-09 - China declares war on Japan, Germany & Italy
1941-12-11 - Germany & Italy declare war on US
1941-12-12 - German occupying army do a house search in Paris looking for Jews
1941-12-13 - German occupiers forbid National Front & Netherland Union
1941-12-15 - German submarine U-127 sinks
1941-12-17 - German submarine U-31 sunk
1941-12-17 - German troops led by Rommel begin retreating in North Africa
1941-12-18 - German submarine U-434 sinks
1941-12-19 - German submarine U-574 sinks
1941-12-19 - Hitler takes complete command of German Army
1941-12-21 - German submarine U-567 sinks
1942-01-02 - German troops in Bardia surrender
1942-01-05 - 55 German tanks reach North-Africa
1942-01-13 - German U-boats begin harassing shipping on US east coast
1942-01-13 - World War II: First use of aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.
1942-01-19 - Titus Brandsma arrested by German occupiers
1942-01-26 - Italian supreme command demands dismissal of German marshal Rommel
1942-01-28 - German troops occupy Benghazi Libya
1942-01-29 - German & Italian troops occupy Banghazi
1942-02-12 - 3 German battle cruisers escape via Channel to Brest N Germany
1942-02-15 - German U-boat shells at Antillian oil refinery
1942-02-16 - German submarines attack Aruba oil refinery
1942-02-24 - Voice of America begins broadcasting (in German)
1942-02-26 - German battle cruiser Gneisenau deactivated by bomb
1942-02-27 - 1st transport of French Jews to nazi-Germany
1942-03-20 - Major German assault on Malta
1942-03-21 - Heavy German assault on Malta
1942-03-22 - Heavy German assault on Malta
1942-03-26 - German offensive in North-Africa under Col-general Rommel
1942-03-27 - -28] Allies raid German submarine base in St Nazaire
1942-03-29 - British destroyer Campbeltown explodes in St-Nazaire: 400 Germans die
1942-03-29 - German submarine U-585 sinks
1942-03-29 - The Bombing of Lübeck in World War II was the first major success for the RAF Bomber Command against Germany and a German city.
1942-04-07 - Heavy German assault on Malta
1942-04-14 - Destroyer Roper sinks German U-85 of US east coast
1942-04-20 - German occupiers forbids Dutch access to their beach
1942-04-20 - Heavy German assault on Malta
1942-05-04 - German occupiers imprison 450 prominent Dutch as hostages
1942-05-08 - German summer offensive opens in Crimea
1942-05-22 - Mexico declares war on nazi-Germany & Japan
1942-05-27 - Top German Nazi Reinhard Heydrich is shot & mortally wounded in Prague
1942-06-07 - Germany Armys march into Sebastopol
1942-06-09 - German-Neth press reports, 3 million Dutch sent to East-Europe
1942-06-11 - German army defeated at El-Alamein North Africa
1942-06-13 - 1st V-2 rocket launch, Peenemunde, Germany; reached 1.3 km
1942-06-13 - Germany puts 4 saboteurs on Long Island
Famous Birthdays
Results 1001 - 1,100 of 2,503
1876-02-13 - Fritz Buelow, German-born American baseball player (d. 1933)
1876-03-29 - Joseph Schmidlin, German church historian/antifascist
1876-04-23 - Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, German historian (d. 1925)
1876-04-24 - Erich Raeder, German naval commander (d. 1960)
1876-07-02 - Wilhelm Cuno, German ship owner/republic chancellor (1922-23)
1876-07-20 - Otto Blumenthal, German mathematician (d. 1944)
1876-09-05 - Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, German field marshal (d. 1956)
1876-09-15 - Bruno Walter, [B W Schlesinger], Berlin Germany, conductor (NY Phil)
1876-10-22 - Karl B Adam, German theologist (Christ our Brother)
1876-10-23 - Franz Schlegelberger, German judge and politician (d. 1970)
1876-12-06 - Fred Duesenberg, German-born automobile pioneer (d. 1932)
1876-12-07 - Ludwig Schiedermair, German musicologist (Beethoven-Archiv)
1877-01-22 - Hjalmar Schacht, president of German Reichsbank/minister of Economics
1877-01-31 - Max Ettlinger, German philosopher
1877-02-07 - Julius Curtius, German minister of Foreign affairs (1929-..)
1877-02-19 - Else Berg, German/Dutch painter
1877-02-19 - Gabriele Münter, German painter (d. 1962)
1877-03-04 - Fritz Graebner, German ethnologist (d. 1934)
1877-03-12 - Wilhelm Frick, German protector of Bohemia/Moravia
1877-04-02 - Arnold Schering, German musicologist (Humor, Heldentum, Tragik)
1877-05-03 - Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst (d. 1925)
1877-06-04 - Heinrich Wieland, German chemist (bile acids-Nobel 1927)
1877-07-13 - Karl Erb, German tenor
1877-08-10 - Rudolf Hilferding, German economist/SPD-minister of Finance
1877-09-13 - Wilhelm Filchner, German explorer (d. 1957)
1877-10-08 - Hans Heysen, German-born landscape artist (d. 1968)
1878-01-16 - Robert Garbe, German poet (Gorniek)
1878-01-28 - Walter Kollo [Kollodziepski], German composer (Der Juxbaron)
1878-02-08 - Martin Buber, German/Israeli philosopher/theologist (Ich und Du)
1878-04-01 - Carl Sternheim, German playwright (Hyperion/Tabula Rasa)
1878-04-06 - Erich Mühsam, German author (d. 1934)
1878-04-12 - Richard B Goldschmidt, German/US zoologist
1878-04-21 - Albert Weisgerber, German painter/graphic artist
1878-05-10 - Gustav Stresemann, German chancellor (1923, Nobel 1926)
1878-07-27 - Jean F van Royen, Dutch German secretary (PTT)
1878-08-10 - Alfred Döblin, German writer (d. 1957)
1878-09-02 - Werner von Blomberg, German minister of Reichswehr
1878-09-16 - Karl Albiker, German sculptor (German Art, female nudes)
1878-10-24 - Hermann Claudius, German folk poet (Meister Bertram)
1878-10-29 - Alex E von Falkenhausen, German general (China, WW II)
1878-11-13 - Max Dehn, German mathematician (d. 1952)
1878-11-21 - Gustav Radbruch, German lawyer/minister of Justice
1879-03-08 - Otto Hahn, German physicist/chemist (Nobel 44, radiothorium/actinium)
1879-03-19 - Joseph Haas, German (opera)composer (Tobias Wunderlich)
1879-04-19 - Richard Scheibe, German sculptor (Adler mit Hakenkreuz)
1879-05-27 - Hans Lammers, German SS officer (d. 1962)
1879-06-05 - Robert Mayer, German-born philanthropist (d. 1985)
1879-06-11 - Max Schreck, German actor (d. 1936)
1879-06-16 - Fritz Schulz, German law historian (Classical Novel Law)
1879-08-06 - Joseph Wirth, German politician (Stalin Peace Prize)
1879-09-06 - Max Schreck, German actor (d. 1936)
1879-10-29 - Franz JHMM von Papen, German diplomat/chancellor (1932)
1879-11-02 - Jean Gilbert, [Max Winterfield], German composer (Prince Regent)
1879-12-08 - Paul Klee, Swiss/German painter/tutor (Bauhaus) [OS]
1879-12-15 - Rudolf von Laban, Czech/German choreographer (modern dance)
1880-02-08 - Franz Marc, German painter (Blaue Reiter)
1880-02-21 - Waldemar Bonsels, German writer (d. 1952)
1880-03-21 - Hans Hofmann, German/US painter (Search for the Real)
1880-03-21 - Wilhelm Pessler, German sociologist
1880-05-01 - Conrad Weiss, German writer/poet (Tantum dic verbo)
1880-05-14 - Wilhelm List, German field marshal (d. 1971)
1880-05-15 - Otto Dibelius, German theologist/bishop (Confessional Church)
1880-05-29 - Oswald Spengler, Germany, philosopher (Decline of West)
1880-06-29 - Ludwig Beck, chef Germany general staff ("July 20th plot")
1880-07-20 - Hermann earl Keyserling, German philosopher/writer
1880-08-22 - Gorch Fock, German author and poet (d. 1916)
1880-09-14 - Paul Fechter, German writer (Der Zauberer Gottes)
1880-11-01 - Alfred L Wegener, German meteorologist (continental shift)
1880-12-03 - Fedor von Bock, German field marshal (d. 1945)
1880-12-10 - Fred Immler, German actor (d. 1965)
1880-12-30 - Alfred Einstein, German/US musicologist/nephew of Albert Einstein
1881-01-04 - Wilhelm Lehmbruck, German painter/poet/sculptor (Seated Youth)
1881-01-25 - Emil Ludwig, German biographer (Diana, Son of Man)
1881-02-14 - Otto Selz, German psychologist
1881-02-19 - Armin Knab, German composer (Eichendorff-cycle)
1881-03-23 - Hermann Staudinger, Germany, chemist/plastics researcher (Nobel '53)
1881-04-18 - Hermann KJ Zilcher, German pianist/composer (Dr Eisenbart)
1881-04-25 - Hans Windisch, German new testament expert
1881-05-27 - Rudolf Pannwitz, German writer
1881-05-30 - Georg von Küchler, German field marshal (d. 1968)
1881-06-29 - Curt Sachs, German musicologist (d. 1959)
1881-07-06 - Josef Winckler, German dentist/writer (Quadriga, Pumpernickel)
1881-07-19 - Friedrich J H Dessauer, German physicist (radiologist)
1881-07-27 - Hans Fischer, German physicist (Nobel 1930)
1881-08-08 - Paul L E von Kleist, German general-fieldmarshal (Eastern Front)
1881-08-08 - Albert Kesselring, German field marshal (d. 1960)
1881-08-15 - Alfred Wagenknecht, German-born American activist (d. 1956)
1881-10-04 - [Heinrich A H] Walther von Brauchitsch, German fieldmarshal
1881-11-12 - Maximilian von Weichs, German field marshal (d. 1954)
1881-12-04 - Erwin von Witzleben, German fieldmarshal (July 20th plot)
1881-12-31 - Max Pechstein, German "entartet" painter/graphic artist (The Bridge)
1882-02-26 - Walter Lucht, German artillery general (WW I/WW II)
1882-03-23 - Emmy Noether, German mathematician (d. 1935)
1882-04-07 - Kurt von Schleiger, German chancellor (12/2/32-1/28/33)
1882-05-06 - Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany (d. 1951)
1882-06-04 - Karl Valentin, German comic/writer
1882-06-24 - Carl Diem, German Olympic official (d. 1962)
1882-06-27 - Eduard Spranger, German psychologist/educator
1882-08-26 - James Franck, German naturalist (Nobel 1925)
1882-09-22 - Wilhelm Keitel, German fieldmarshal
Famous Deaths
Results 1001 - 1,100 of 1,653
1942-01-31 - Rolf Wenkhaus, German actor (b. 1917)
1942-02-08 - Fritz Todt, German Reichs minister (Organization Todt), dies at 50
1942-03-12 - Robert Bosch, German industrialist (b. 1861)
1942-05-28 - Jean F van Royen, German secretary PTT (camp Amersfoort), dies
1942-05-31 - Reinhard Heydrich, German protector of Bohemia & Moravia, assassinated
1942-06-04 - Reinhard Heydrich, German protector (Bohemia/Moravia (Lidice)), dies
1942-06-25 - Hans Lietzman, German theologist/church historian, dies at 67
1942-08-09 - Edith Stein, German philosopher, dies
1942-08-31 - Von Bismarck, German major general, (Africa Corps), dies in battle
1942-10-06 - Erich Kuttner, German journalist/historian (Vorwarts), dies
1942-10-23 - Georg Stumme, German general/commandant of African corps, dies
1942-11-03 - Carl Sternheim, German playwright (Trousers, Snob), dies at 64
1942-12-20 - Jean Gilbert, [Max Winterfield], German composer, dies at 63
1942-12-22 - Franz Boas, German anthropologist (b. 1858)
1943-02-14 - David Hilbert, German mathematician (Hilbert Space), dies at 81
1943-02-14 - Dora Gerson, German actress, cabaret singer, and Holocaust victim (b. 1899)
1943-02-22 - Christoph Probst, German resistance fighter (That Weisse Rose), dies
1943-02-22 - Hans Scholl, German resistance fighter (White Rose), beheaded at 24
1943-02-22 - Sophie Scholl, German resistance fighter (Die Weisse Rose), beheaded
1943-04-03 - Conrad Veidt, German/US actor (Cabinet of Dr Calgary), dies at 50
1943-04-04 - Oskar Schlemmer, German painter/sculptor, dies at 54
1943-04-19 - Alexander Schmorell, German resistance fighter, beheaded
1943-04-19 - Kurt Huber, German resistance fighter, beheaded
1943-04-19 - Willy Graf, German resistance fighter, beheaded
1943-05-16 - Alfred Hoche, German psychiatrist (b. 1865)
1943-07-13 - Kurt Huber, German philosopher/resistance fighter, dies at 50
1943-08-01 - Ismar Elbogen, German/US learned/rabbi (Jewish Lexicon), dies at 68
1943-08-07 - Gustav Schmidt, German lt-general, dies in battle
1943-08-18 - Hans Jeschonnek, German air force general/chief-staff, commits suicide
1943-08-23 - Johann P Zilcher, German composer, dies at 88
1943-08-27 - Otto Selz, German psychologist (In Auschwitz), dies
1943-09-30 - Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist (b. 1864)
1943-10-31 - Max Reinhardt, German film director (b. 1873)
1943-11-09 - Bernhard Lichtenberg, German clergyman/antifascist, dies at 67
1943-11-24 - Martin Raschke, German author/war correspondent, dies at 38
1943-12-04 - Carlo Mierendorff, German politician/antifascist, dies at 46
1944-01-05 - Adolph Goldschmidt, German/Swiss art historian, dies at 80
1944-01-21 - Heinrich zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, German major/pilot, shot down
1944-03-15 - Otto von Below, German commandant (WW I), dies at 86
1944-04-05 - Isolde Kurz, German writer/poetess (Meine Mutter), dies at 90
1944-07-07 - Erich Salomon, German photographer, dies
1944-07-11 - Wolfgang Redlich, German major/pilot, dies in battle
1944-07-20 - Brandt, col/German staff chief, dies in bombing
1944-07-20 - Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg, count/German antifascist colonel, dies
1944-07-20 - Friedrich Olbricht, German general (July 20th plotter), executed
1944-07-20 - Heinz Burns, German (Olympic-gold-1936), dies in bombing
1944-07-20 - Korten, chef gen of Germany Luftwaffe, dies in bomb explosion
1944-07-20 - Ludwig Beck, gen/chief Germany general staff (July 20th plot), dies
1944-07-20 - Mertz, German colonel (July 20th plotter), executed
1944-07-20 - Werner von Haeffen, German lieutenant (July 20th plotter), executed
1944-07-23 - Helmuth J von Moltke, German earl (July 20th plotter), executed
1944-08-03 - Felix Nussbaum, German painter (Widerstandskunst), dies in Auschwitz
1944-08-08 - Erwin von Witzleben, German fieldmarshal, hanged at 62
1944-08-18 - Ernst "Teddy" Thalmann, leader of German KPD, dies
1944-08-19 - Gunther von Kluge, German field marshal, commits suicide, dies at 62
1944-08-26 - Adam von Trott zu Solz, German diplomat (b. 1909)
1944-08-27 - Georg von Boeselager, German nobleman (b. 1915)
1944-08-28 - Ernst Thalmann, German communist, dies in Buchenwald
1944-08-31 - Killinger, German ambassador to Romania, commits suicide
1944-09-16 - Gustav Bauer, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1870)
1944-09-17 - ... Kussin, German gen-maj/commanding Arnhem, dies in battle
1944-10-02 - Rudolf Schmundt, German gen/Hitlers army adjunct, dies from injuries
1944-10-14 - Erwin Rommel, German fieldmarshal (WW II-Africa), suicide at 52
1944-10-21 - Alois Kayser, German missionary to Nauru (b. 1877)
1944-11-08 - Walter Nowotny, German combat/jet fighter pilot, dies
1944-12-17 - Vassily V Kandinsky, Russian/German/French painter, dies
1944-12-19 - Rudolph Karstadt, German entrepreneur (b. 1856)
1945-01-22 - Else Lasker-Schuler, German-born poet (b. 1869)
1945-01-23 - Helmuth J Moltke, German politician ("July 20th Plot"), executed at 37
1945-01-30 - Gottlieb J Haberlandt, Hungarian/German botanist, dies at 90
1945-02-03 - Roland Freisler, German Nazi judge (July 20th plotter case), dies
1945-03-07 - Adolf Bartels, German writer/racist, dies at 82
1945-03-16 - Börries von Münchhausen, German poet (b. 1874)
1945-03-19 - Fritz Fromm, German supreme commander of Reserve army, executed
1945-03-21 - Artur Nebe, German SS officer {b. 1894)
1945-03-29 - Karl T Sapper, German geographer/geologist (Vulkankunde), dies at 79
1945-03-31 - Hans Fischer, German physicist (Nobel 1930), dies at 63
1945-03-31 - Maurice Rose, 1st US general in Nazi Germany, killed in action at 45
1945-04-09 - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologist/antifascist, hanged
1945-04-09 - Hans Oster, German major-general/spy, "July 20th plot", hanged
1945-04-09 - Wilhelm Canaris, Admiral/headed Germany Abwehr, hanged
1945-04-13 - Ernst Cassirer, German philosopher (b. 1874)
1945-04-17 - Walter Model, German fieldmarshal, commits suicide at 54
1945-04-22 - Kathe Kollwitz, German graphic artist, dies at 77
1945-04-29 - Matthias Kleinheisterkamp, German SS officer (b. 1893)
1945-04-30 - Adolph Hitler, German dictator (1936-45), commits suicide at 56
1945-05-02 - Ludwig Stumpfegger, German SS doctor (b. 1910)
1945-05-10 - Richard Glücks, German SS officer (b. 1889)
1945-05-19 - Philipp Bouhler, German nazi leader (b. 1889)
1945-08-26 - Franz Werfel, Czech/German/US poet/writer (Mirror Man), dies at 54
1945-10-24 - Robert Ley, German nazi, commits suicide
1946-03-13 - Werner von Blomberg, German minister of Reichswehr, dies at 67
1946-07-25 - Narziss Oh, German psychology, dies
1946-08-05 - Wilhelm Marx, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1863)
1946-09-04 - Paul Lincke, German composer/conductor (Lysistrata), dies at 79
1946-10-16 - Alfred G Jodl, Col-Gen/German staff chief weather authority, hanged
1946-10-16 - Alfred Rosenberg, German war criminal, hanged
1946-10-16 - Fritz Sauckel, German war criminal, hanged
1946-10-16 - Hans Franc, German war criminal, hanged
1946-10-16 - Joachim von Ribbentrop, German war criminal, hanged
