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Events relating to germany
Adolf Hitler reinstates Germany's airforce, the Luftwaffe, putting Hermann Goering in command
The people of the rich mining district of the Saar vote to merge with Germany
Adolf Hitler gets away with a calculated international risk when he reintroduces conscription in Germany
Adolf Hitler's rearmament programme begins to reduce German unemployment, and by 1938 eliminates it entirely
Adolf Hitler gives Karl Dönitz, a submarine commander from World War I, responsibility for Germany's U-boat programme
Adolf Hitler promulgates a law prohibiting any sexual relationship between Jews and 'Aryans'
New Nazi laws announced at Nuremberg strip Jews of their German citizenship
The rest of Europe offers no effective objection when Adolf Hitler moves his troops into the demilitarized Rhineland
German architect Werner March designs spectacular buildings for the Berlin Olympics
Membership of the Hitler Youth (for boys) or the League of German Maidens is made compulsory
Hitler gives Reinhard Heydrich control of the Gestapo
At the Berlin Olympics, attended by Hitler, the African-American athlete Jesse Owens sets three new Olympic records and equals a fourth
Carl Orff's cantata Carmina Burana has its premiere in Frankfurt
Hitler and Mussolini form an axis, or alliance, causing Germany and Italy to become known as the Axis powers
Germany and Japan establish an Anti-Comintern Pact against their common enemy, the USSR
Pope Pius XI issues an encyclical, Mit Brennender Sorge, condemning the Nazi ideology of racism
Under Nazi influence the University of Bonn deprives Thomas Mann of his honorary doctorate, which is restored to him in 1946
Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller is arrested for defying the Nazis and spends the next eight years in concentration camps
A Nazi exhibition of 'degenerate art' opens in Munich, and visitors are invited to mock the avant-garde works on show
Buchenwald, near Weimar, is set up as a concentration camp providing forced labour for local arms manufacturers
Rocket engineer Wernher von Braun is appointed director of Germany's weapon research centre at Peenemünde
Adolf Hitler, entertaining Mussolini in Germany, puts on spectacular demonstrations of German military and industrial might
Adolf Hitler appoints Joachim von Ribbentrop as Germany's foreign minister
German tanks cross the border into Austria, on the official invitation of Austrian Nazis
Adolf Hitler, following his troops into Austria, announces the Anschluss (union of Germany and Austria)
