The 30th June 1934 saw the Nazis carry out a purge of their own party, when Hitler ordered the SS to murder leading figures of the SA or Brownshirts along with critics of the Nazi regime such as former chancellor von Schleicher.
West Germany’s Federal Archives revealed that forensic tests proved the Hitler Diaries were forgeries.
The Battle of Berlin ended after German General Helmuth Weidling surrendered to Soviet General Vasily Chuikov.
The Spanish Civil War began in July 1936 after a military coup by Spanish forces in North Africa failed to secure complete control over the country.
On the 7th March 1936, the German Army under control of Adolf Hitler violated international agreements by remilitarising the Rhineland.
The German Empire established its first air force, the Fliegertruppe, in 1910 which saw extensive action in the First World War.
The Battle of Monte Cassino began when Allied forces launched the first of four attacks against the Gustav Line in Italy.
In November 1923 Hitler was imprisoned after he led a failed coup against the Weimar Government by trying to seize power in the Bavarian city of Munich.
On the 25th November 1936, Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan signed the Anti-Comintern Pact.
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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