Germany in the 20th century
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Updated: 20 Feb 2018
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Treaty of VersaillesAbdication of Kaiser Wilhelm IIArmistice declaredEstablishment of the Weimar RepublicAdolf Hitler is appointed ChancellorReichstag fireEnabling Act is passedWeimar Constitution adoptedAnschlussDeath of Adolf HitlerGermany surrendersDissolution of Third ReichInfant mortality: 7.7%Infant mortality: 6.6%Number of marriages: 516,000Number of marriages: 740,000600 Reichsmark loan for unmarried unemployedMarriage loan extended to women in workMarriage LawMarriage lawMarriage-related lawCompulsory agricultural serviceWomen are told to register for workProposal to conscript womenFirst demonstrations against WWILeft wing anti-war demonstrationSoldier's rations are cut1700 people in Berlin die of Spanish FluSpeech by General Ludendorff to Reichstag600 sailors arrested for mutinyMutiny spreadsMutiny spreads to rest of GermanyKaiser Wilhelm secretly leaves the countryFriedrich Ebert issues statementEbert is taken hostageSpartacists become KPDBeginning of Spartacist Revolution2000 Freikorps attack Spartacists in BerlinRosa Luxembourg and Karl Liebknecht murderedEbert is elected presidentBoycott of Jewish shops, businessesLaw for the Restoration of the Professional Civil ServiceLaw for exclusion of Jewish journalistsNuremberg Race lawsJewish doctors forbidden from practicing medicine1 million live birthsWomen are excluded from NSDAP positions17,000 Polish Jews expelledJews excluded from educationClosure and sale of Jewish businessesIntroduction of curfew for all JewsAssassination of Ernst von RathCreation of Reich Central Office for Jewish EmigrationJewish population: 503,000Jewish population: 234,000Jewish population: 20,000Jewish emigrés: 38,000Jewish emigrés: 78,000Hitler makes a speech to ReichstagInvasion of PolandBeginning of Operation BarbarossaWannsee ConferenceAll jews are forced to wear the Star of DavidAuschwitz liberatedGypsy population: 25,000 - 30,000Himmler issues "The Struggle against the Gypsy Plague"Attacks on 200,000 Jews in ViennaGypsies deported to Poland<2 million live birthsPeriods
World War IIWorld War IGerman RevolutionBirth rate risesIncrease in divorce ratesNumber of women in university drops37% to 31% women in employmentNumber of employed women increases even moreIncreased female participation in Nazi bodiesIncrease in number of marriagesDecrease in infant mortality"Turnip winter"Spanish Flu hits EuropeSuppression of SpartacistsBerlin OlympicsKristallnachtMass killing of Jews in USSRExtermination facilities set upDestruction of Warsaw GhettoTransportation of Untermenschen to death campsTemporary decrease in anti-semitismEmployment restrictions for women
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