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The Night Of Long Lives
Saturday, June 30, Hitler first commanded the capture of the SA men who were inside Munich Nazi headquarters, then continued to the Ministry of the Interior building where he confronted the top SA man in Munich after his arrest, even tearing off his symbol in a fit of hysteria. -
German Jews Stripped Of Rights
The Nuremberg Race Laws of 1935 deprived German Jews of their rights of citizenship, giving them the status of "subjects" in Hitler's Reich. The laws also made it forbidden for Jews to marry or have sexual relations with Aryans or to employ young Aryan women as household help. -
Ethiopia Captured
Fascist Italy invades, conquers, and annexes Ethiopia. -
Hitler Reveals War Plans
On November 5, 1937, Adolf Hitler held a secret conference in the Reich Chancellery during which he revealed his plans for the acquisition of Lebensraum, or living space, for the German people at the expense of other nations in Europe. -
German Troops Occupy The Sudetenland
The Sudetenland was the portion of Czechoslovakia inhabited by over 3 million Sudeten Germans. Many of them became Nazis and strongly supported the acquisition of the Sudetenland by Hitler. -
Nazis and Soviets Sign Pact
On the occasion of the signature of the Non-Aggression Pact between the German Reich and the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics the undersigned plenipotentiaries of each of the two parties discussed in strictly confidential conversations the question of the boundary of their respective spheres of influence in Eastern Europe. -
Germans Invade Paris
Nazis march into Paris, June 14, 1940, beginning a four-year occupation of the 'City of Lights.' -
Nazis Force Jews To Wear Yellow Stars
The policy of requiring Jews to wear the stars was also extended to occupied areas, including Jewish ghettos. -
Ameripans Forced To Relocation Center
The assembly center at Santa Anita, California, where Ameripans stayed before being moved inland to the relocation center. -
Allies Land In Sicily
During the invasion of Sicily, an American cargo ship is hit by a bomb from a German plane and its cargo of munitions explodes, off Gela, Sicily. July 1943.
