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
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The Siege of Leningrad, one of the longest and most destructive sieges in history, began.
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.
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.
On the 27th July 1942, Allied forces in North Africa stopped the advancing Axis powers in the First Battle of El Alamein.
On the 26th July 1936, Adolf Hitler informed General Francisco Franco that Germany would support his Nationalist rebellion in Spain.
On the 18th July 1925, the first volume of Adolf Hitler’s rambling racist manifesto Mein Kampf – which translates as My Struggle or My Battle – was first published.
Wernher von Braun initially developed rockets for the United States Army, but was later made director of the Marshall Space Flight Center where he oversaw the design of the Saturn V rocket that launched the Apollo spacecraft to the Moon.
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
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15th September 1935: Nazi Germany introduces the discriminatory ‘Nuremberg Laws’
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
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9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
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