The 8th May 1945 was Victory in Europe Day – a public holiday to celebrate the end of the Second World War.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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The Nazi Party founded a paramilitary organisation that became the Schutzstaffel, better known as the SS.
On the 22nd February 1943, the first three members of the White Rose resistance group were put on trial and executed by guillotine in Germany.
On the 27th January 1945, Soviet soldiers from the 322nd Rifle Division liberated the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp near the Polish city of Oświęcim.
On the 12th December 1935, the Lebensborn registered association was established in Nazi Germany by the SS.
On the 20th November 1945 the first, and best known, of the Nuremberg Trials 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.
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.
On the 12th June 1942, Anne Frank received a diary as a thirteenth birthday present from her father.
On the 11th April 1961, the trial of Nazi SS Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Eichmann began in Israel.
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9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
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