Although the popular name suggests the purge lasted for one night, the executions went on throughout the weekend.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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West Germany’s Federal Archives revealed that forensic tests proved the Hitler Diaries were forgeries.
Hitler’s detention provided him with the opportunity to write Mein Kampf, his blueprint for power, and to rethink the tactics he would use to take that power in Germany.
Hitler chose to send three battalions, or approximately 22,000 German troops, into the Rhineland in violation of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles.
Communists were blamed for starting the fire in the Reichstag, and Dutch communist Marinus van der Lubbe was found and arrested.
Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg.
The Battle of Monte Cassino began when Allied forces launched the first of four attacks against the Gustav Line in Italy.
Voter turnout in the plebiscite was 98% of all eligible voters in the Saar, and 90.8% of them chose to re-join the German Reich.
Hitler was injured and escaped capture, but was arrested two days later and put on trial for high treason.
Einstein, who was Jewish, was undertaking a visiting professorship at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena when Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor on 30 January 1933.
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