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The Reichstag Fire Decree suspend all personal freedoms given in the Constitution from a state of emergency. This comes following the arson of a government building by an anarchist and lasts throughout the Nazi's time.
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Britian and France declare war on Germany in 1939.
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Germany drops bombs in an air raid on London, but fails, showing an important power shift in the war.
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The RUssian winter and counterattacks stop the Germans.
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The Germans declare war on the united states.
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The White Rose group tried to stop the war by sabotaging the armaments industry.They said that they will not be scilent and that the White Rose would not leave you in peace.
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IN 1942, several members were sent into the war as physician assistants in German Field Hospitals. They met future member, Willi Graf, and were open to the atrocities faced by Polish Jews and Russian peasants from the Germans.
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There were six leaflets published and distributed by Hans and Sophie Scholl and their friends, another leaflet after another. Four under the title “The White Rose” and two under the title “Leaflets of the Resistance.”
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When the Germans lose the battle in Stalingrad, three members of the White Rose begin a graffiti campaign with tar in the University of Munich.
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Hans and Sophia Scholl are noticed by a janitor distributing leaflets at the University of Munich and arrested by the Gestapo.
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After Germany defeated Stalingrad in January 1943, the Scholls distributed pamphlets wanting students in Munich to rebel. But a german spy saw them. The Nazi's executed Hans and Sophie Scholl and Christoph Probst who were part of the rebellion, were executed on February 22, 1943.
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The trial of Hans Scholl, Sophia Scholl, and CHristopher Probst.
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The second trial for the members of the White Rose had 14 members who were tried. Only three recieved a death sentence. The rest were sent tovarios prison sentences.
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Alexander Schmorell was a resistance fighter for the White Rose. After he graduated from collage, he was arrested and executed6 by Nazi Grermany.
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Four members were tried. Only one was given a prison sentence, the other three were acquitted.
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After the court sentenced members of the White Rose to death Helmuth James Graf von Moltke, a supporter, smuggled the last leaflet through Scandinavia in the United Kingdom. In July, Allied planes flew over Germany and dropped the leaflet called The Manifesto of the Students at Munich.
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The largest seaborne invasion in history.
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On 20 July 1944, Claus von Stauffenberg and other conspirators attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler
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On April 30 hitler retired to his suite and shot himself. His wife took poison. Their bodies were burned.
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Nazi Germany surrenders to the Allied forces.
