On the 12th December 1935, the Lebensborn registered association was established in Nazi Germany by the SS.
10th June 1924: Italian politician Matteotti kidnapped and murdered by Fascists
10th June 2017
On the 20th November 1945 the first, and best known, of the Nuremberg Trials began.
On the 8th November 1923, the Beer Hall Putsch took place when Adolf Hitler along with First World War hero Erich Ludendorff led an attempted coup against the Weimar Government by trying to seize power in the Bavarian city of Munich.
On the 15th October 1923, the Rentenmark was introduced in Weimar Germany in an attempt to stop the hyperinflation crisis that had crippled the economy.
On the 15th September 1935, the German Reichstag passed the Nuremberg Laws that legally discriminated against Jews.
The Siege of Leningrad, one of the longest and most destructive sieges in history, began.
On the 3rd September 1939, the Second World War officially began when France and the United Kingdom – together with Australia and New Zealand – declared war on Germany.
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.
18th December 1892: Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker first performed
18th December 2018
16th December 1914: German Navy attack Scarborough
16th December 2018
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2017