The Nuremberg Laws enshrined anti-semitic discrimination in the legal framework of the country through two pieces of legislation.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
21st June 2019
The Siege of Leningrad, one of the longest and most destructive sieges in history, began.
On the 1st September 1939, German forces invaded Poland in a move that was to trigger the Second World War.
On the 25th August 1944, the Nazi German garrison in Paris surrendered the city to the Allies.
On 23rd August 1939, Vyacheslav Molotov and Joachim von Ribbentrop – the Soviet foreign minister and the German foreign minister – signed the Treaty of Non-aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, otherwise known as the Nazi-Soviet Pact.
On the 17th August 1982, the very first commercial compact disc was produced in the German town of Langenhagen.
Beginning at midnight on the 13th August 1961, East German police and army began to close the border with West Berlin.
The Weimar Republic was officially established on 11th August 1919, when Friedrich Ebert signed the new constitution into law.
American athlete Jesse Owens won the first of four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics.
On the 2nd August 1934, the 86 year old German Reichspräsident Paul von Hindenburg died of lung cancer and Adolf Hitler became both the Führer and Reich Chancellor of the German People.
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
15th September 1935: Nazi Germany introduces the discriminatory ‘Nuremberg Laws’
15th September 2021
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
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