Germany 1583-2014

GERMANY 1583-2014

1583-1668 – The Catholic regions of Germany switched to the Gregorian calendar in various months of 1583, while most of Protestant regions made the change between 1615 and 1668. (Ancestry. March April 2007 p20).

20 Jun 1732 – Johan Samuel Sturmer born Frankfurt on Oden Germany.

1815 – 1866  Up to 1860 Germany had formed the Holy Roman empire, it was destroyed by Napoleon, then with his defeat the German confederation of 1815 was formed. It lasted until 1866. (German politics. Peter Pulzer ©1995 US)

1831-1969 –UK General register office, foreign returns. Second world war deaths, British prisoners of war in German and Japanese camps and civilians. (Family tree. Dec 2009 p7).

1866-1918 – With the defeat of Austria by Prussia and the battle of Koniggratz in 1866, for five years the German state without Austria. German federation in 1871, the empire of 1871 which lasted 47 years until defeat in 1918 at the end of the first world war. (German politics. Peter Pulzer ©1995 US).

1871-1918 – The Bavarian WWI personnel rosters 1914-1918. Germany has been a unified country since 1871, with four kingdoms. (Practical family history. Feb 2010 p7).

1880-1980 – The historical Encyclopedia of world slavery. Junius P Robriquez ©1997 Foreign labour in Germany, illegal slave trade, smuggling of slaves.

1889 – Adolph Hitler was born in a village on the Austrian border. He lost his parents while young and worked in Vienna and Munich. In 1914 he joined the German army and fought as a corporal on the western front. (The momentous years. Priestly J Betts ©1961).

1911 – Atomic bomb spy Klaus Fuchs, son of a German Quaker preacher, was born in Russelheim near Frankfurt. (Too secret too long. Chapman Pincher ©1984 US).

1913-1941 – Hitler’s attack on Russia in 1941. German citizenship was enshrined in the Imperial citizen law of 1913. The law of descent. (German politics. Peter Pulzer. ©1995 US).

4 August 1913 – Theodore Roosevelt said, that great black tornado, finally broke over Europe. Just 37 days after the shots killing Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife in Sarajevo. (The Economist. March April 2014).

1914 – The holocaust. Fritz Stern, a German American historian said the conflict was the first calamity of the 20^th century, the calamity from which all the other calamities sprang. A young Charles de Gaulle, already wounded twice, grimly observed in Dec 1914, what is this conflict but a war of extermination. (The Economist. March April 2014).

1914 – The capture of a 1914 German spy, Karl Lody, the first German spy to be executed in Britain during the war. Also sent parcels to British prisoners of war in German occupied areas. (Family tree. Dec 2009 p15-16).

1914-1917 – Germany world war one casualty lists, in German. (NZ society of genealogists inc. Nov-Dec 2011 p252).

1917 – Berlin network reformed in Mexico, ordered to forment a revolution and create a government that would invade the US. German government and Mexican government revealed in the Zimmerman telegram. (Espionage. ©1995 E Volkman).

1924 – Colonel Charles Howard Ellis was born in Sydney Australia in 1895. He moved into M16 as an agent in 1924 in Berlin. (Too secret too long. C Pincher. ©1984 US).

1928-1932 – In the last two free elections of the Weimar Republic in 1932 the parties opposed to parliamentary government had gained an absolute majority. The Nazi party grew between 1928 and 1932 from 2.6 to 37.3%. (German politics. Peter Pulzer. ©1995 US).

1929-1932 – Dr Stresemann died in 1929 and M Briana in 1932. (The momentous years. Priestly and Betts ©1961).

1933-46 – The Social Democrats voted against special powers for Hitler in 1933. Their leader, Kurt Schumache,r survived ten years in a Nazi concentration camp, minus one arm and impaired eyesight. Military tribunal at Nuremberg in 1946, Nazi leaders were put on trial for their crimes against humanity. (German politics. Peter Pulzer. ©1995 US).

27 Feb 1933 – Berlin, political struggle between the Nazis and the Communists for control. In Germany the parliament was set on fire. Hitler came to power. (The annals of unsolved crime. EJ Epstein ©2012 US)

22 March 1933 – Nazis open Dachau concentaion camp near Munich, followed by Buchenwald near Weimer in central Germany, Sashsenhausen near Berlin in north Germany and Ravensbruck for women. (History place. Holocaust timeline).

29 Sept 1933 – Nazis banned Jews from owning land. (History place. Holocaust timeline).

24 Nov 1933 – Nazis pass a law against beggars, homeless and unemployed to be sent to concentration camps. (History place. Holocaust timeline).

1936-1973 – Health care. Raymond J Devehere. 2010. Research camps Buchenwald and Auschwitz. Crude medical experiments, infected deliberately. Google books.

1938-39 – Spring 1939, German occupation of Czech. On 15 March 1939 the rest of Czech was occupied by the Third Reich. The Czech during the Porajmos (gypsy holocaust) there were 3,000 to 4,000 Roma gypsies in the Sudetenland in 1938, 4,000 in Bohemia, 8,000 in Moravia, another 8,000 in Hungary, The status of gypsies mirrored that of the Jews. (A history of the gypsies of eastern Europe and Russia. David M Crowe ©2007).

1939 – World War Two had broken out in Europe in 1959 Nazi Soviet pact in 1939. (The cold war. ©2005 JL Gaddis).

1939 – Dr Mengole injected gypsies with Malaria. On 25 Sept 1939 Jews were deprived of their Slovak citizenship. (A history of the gypsies from eastern Europe and Russia. David Crowe. ©2007).

1940-41 – Gypsies 1 Sept 1940 and 1 Dec 1941 authorities shipped 290 gypsy Roma to a new labour camp at Lety and 442 to a new camp at Hodonin. On 4 Dec 1941 camps at Lety or Hodonin or to prison in Ruzyne, Padubice, Brno or Olsovec. If they were too crowded prisoners were shipped to similar facilities in Germany or Auschwitz. (A history of the gypsies of eastern Europe and Russia. David Crowe. ©2007).

16 July 1940 – Hitler signed the Fuhrer directive no 16 which authorized the invasion of England. Operation Sealion was the German codename. (Family tree. Sept 2010 UK).

Sept 1940 – Krakow, town of Oswiecim the prewar Jewish cemetery was destroyed and pillaged by the Nazis, but it was  reconstructed after the war. It  is abandoned and overgrown. There are no surviving Jews in Oswiecim. Before the Second World War there were 6,000 Jews. (History today. Sept 2010 UK).

3 Sept 1941 – The first test use of Zyklon-B gas at Auschwitz. (History place. Holocaust timeline).

December 1941 – Japanese strike against pearl harbour on 7 Dec 1941, which Hitler used as an excuse to declare war on the US four days later. (The cold war. ©2005 Gaddis).

1942 – Barbaric medical tests on civilians in concentration camps. Dachau and Auschwitz, experiments at Auschewitz block 10 by the Gestapo. Medical doctors tested vaccines by injecting people with diseases, men and women with drugs. Dr Bruno Weber, SS doctors Viktor Capeslwy in Berlin. (Brainwash. Dominic Streatfeild ©2006 UK).

1942-43 – In July 1942, constructing new buildings at Hodonin and on 1 August 1942 transported Hodonin and Lety concentration camps for gypsies. Between August 1942 and April 1943,  7,980 gypsies were sent to the camps at Lety and 7,329 to Hodonin. German authorities also shipped gypsies to Auschwtz. On 3 Dec 1942, 94 gypsies were sent from Lety to Auschwtz followed by 75 gypsies from Hodonin. (A history of the gypsies from eastern Europe and Russia. David M Crowe. ©2007).

1942-45 – Mark Felton. Yanagi. The secret underwater trade between Germany and Japan. Pen and sword books ltd 2005.

20 Jan 1942 – The Wannsee conference in Berlin, plans for the final solution of Jews was discussed. (A history if the gypsies from eastern Europe and Russia. David M Crowe ©2007).

1943 – Spring 1943 Hitler wanted mass extermination camps in Poland. Hungary Jews and gypsies, genocidal policies towards Hungary’s gypsies and Jews. The Hungarian gypsies had already been sent to the gypsy camps at Auschwitz and Birkenams on 16 March 1943 as part of a larger group of of Austrian Roma. (A history of the gypsies from eastern Europe and Russia. David M Crowe. ©2007).

World War Two – Romany persecution. More than 1.5 million died in the Holocaust, the only other population besides the Jews to be targeted for racial extermination. (Practical family history. Dec 2009).

1943-44 – A Porajmos, gypsy Roma were sent to Auschwtz by early spring 1943. Rudolf Hoss, the Auschwtz commander, opened a gypsy camp called Auschwtz II. By the time Hoss liquidated the gypsy Roma camp on 2 Aug 1944 about 21,000 out of 23,000 gypsy inmates had perished in Birkenams gas chambers. By august 1944 there were 4,000 gypsies left, these were sent to the gas chambers too. (A history of the gypsies from Easten Europe and Russia. David Crowe. ©2007).

29 Jan 1943 – Nazis order all gypsies arrested and sent to extermination camps. (History place. Holocaust timeline).

1944 – Hoss, gassed 2,897 gypsy Roma on 2 August 1944. Porajmos at Auschwtz II. Gypsy Roma also sent to Buchenwald death camp in cental Germany and Ravensbruck, a women’s camp in Berlin. Most of the 6,000 to 8,000 Czech gypsies who died in the Holocasust died at Auschwtz II. (A history of the gypsies from eastern Europe and Russia. David M Crowe. ©2007).

1945 – Vyacheslav Erwandoviech Kevorkov KGB agent in Germany and Belgium Berlin 1945 he worked for SVAG the Soviet military administration in Germany. Hermann Porzgen of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitug correspondent had accompanied the German military attaché on a trip to the Baku oil fields. (Under cover lives. ©1998 H Womek).

1945 – Civilian casualties from starvation, disease, bombing and death camps were higher than the military, as half the globe was sucked into the industrialised war machine. (Cold war. ©1993 M Walker).

1945-46 – On 8 May 1945 the German armies surrendered unconditionally. Municipal elections took place from Jan-May 1946 and on June elections were held for the constituents in each of the Lander. The first free elections in Germany since Hitler’s assumption of power. (German politics. Peter Pulzer. ©1995 US).

13 Feb 1945 – From the night of 13 Feb until the morning of 15 Feb 1945 waves of about 1,200 British and US bombers devastated Dresden. When it ended 39,773 people were officially registered as dead. Another 20,000 were believed to have been burnt beyond recognition as corpses, who knows the number, says an inscription at Dresden cemetery. (Cold war. ©1993 M Walker).

April 1945 – Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun spent their last days in a Berlin bunker, while celebrations in San Francisco had begun. (Kennedy and Nixon. ©1996 Matthews).

May 1945 – The cold war started in Germany where US and Soviet troops met. (Cold war. ©1993 M Walker).

May 1945 – Germanys final surrender marked the end of the war in Europe. Germany was as humanitarian disaster and a political and military vacume, which the victorious allies had to feed and fill. (Cold war. ©1993 M Walker).

8 May 1945 – Unconditional surrender of Germany. (The momentous years. ©1961 Priestly and Betts).

July-Oct 1945 – In July 1945, banks and savings institutions were expropriated. In October, assets of the German state of former Nazis were confiscated. Some 20-30% of these went to the Soviet Union for reparations. (German politics. Peter Pulzer. ©1995 US).

Dec 1945 – Atrocities on trial. Historical perspectives. Patricia Herberer. Jorgen Matthus 2008. Top secret report. 90% of German medical, unethical medical experiments. Google books.

1946-47 – After an exceptionally hard winter, many Germans were near starvation. (German politics. Peter Pulzer. ©1995 US).

1949 – The iron curtain ran across Europe, dividing the Communist ruled state from the rest. The cold war, Berlin was one of the key points in the struggle. The city was divided into zones. The flow of refugees from east to west was a thousand a day sometimes. (The momentous years. ©1961 Priestly and Betts).

1949-89 – It was estimated that from 1949-89, 250,000 people were jailed for political reasons, 25,000 of these died in jail. Stasi of east Germany. (Stasi files. ©2003 A Glees).

4 April 1949 – Formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO. (German politics. Peter Pulzer ©1995 US)

15 Sept 1949 – Konrad Adenauer was elected Chancellor. (German politics. Peter Pulzer.. ©1995 US).

7 Oct 1949 – East Germany GDR was established as an anti-right wing state. “peace” and socialism ruled, so did the Stasi secret police. (Stasi files. ©2003 A Glees).

1950s – American nuclear warheads were stored in West Germany under the joint command of the American German high command. (Last days of America. ©1981 Erdman).

1950-57 – The FRG was a charter signatory of the Treaty of Rome that created the European Economic Community EEC in 1957. The NATO umbrella was created in the 1950s. In 1955 Germany  became a member of NATO, with a population of eight million. A quarter more than France, Britain or Italy. (German politics. Peter Pulzer ©1995 US).

July 1951 – The CIA arrested two Russian agents in Germany, carrying drugs. (Brainwash. Dominic Streatfeild ©2006 UK).

1953-61 – George Blake, a British KGB agent, worked for M16 and the KGB from 1953-61. He betrayed the joint British American Berlin tunnel operation.

1954 – West Germany signed the nuclear non proliferation treaty. That treaty was based on the assumption that the two Superpowers could control their halves of the world. 1954 pact? (Last days of America. ©1981 Erdman).

1955 – Germany formally joined NATO. (Cold war. ©1993 M Walker).

Feb 1955 – A joint M16 CIA team had tunnelled under the Russian sector of Berlin and placed taps on the central communications of the Soviet military command. The actual electrical taps were done by post office personnel. Both the CIA and M16 were reeling under the sheer volume of material being gathered from the tunnel. So much raw intelligence was flowing out of the east that it was swamping the resources available to transcribe and analyse it. M16 were still transcribing material seven years later when they discovered that George Blake had betrayed the tunnel to the Russians from the onset.

April 1956 – A tunnel the CIA had constructed from west Berlin, a third of a mile into east Berlin, by which the CIA had intercepted Soviet and east German cable and telephone communications for more that a year. (Cold war. ©2005 Gaddis).

1960 – The rise and fall of the Third Reich, a history of Nazi Germany. William L Shirer. New York Simon and Schuster. Worldcat database.

1961 – Germany 1949 when it split into two states. In Berlin in 1961 when the wall went up, East German communist leader Walter Ulbricht. Russian specialist on Germany, Valery Lednev, a KGB journalist. Erich Mielke was head of the Stasi secret police. (Under cover lives. ©1998 H Womack).

August 1961 – East Germany unopposed construction of the Berlin Wall. (The cold war. ©205 Gaddis).

Aug 1961 – East Germans fled, 4,700 in the first 12 days of Aug 1961. (German politics. Peter Pulzer. ©1995 US).

11 August 1961 – A folder in the Stasi files called Operation “Rose” shows that the construction of the Berlin wall was an early Stasi task, East Germany’s communication in action, the Stasi. (Stasi files. ©2003 A Glees).

13 August 1961 – East Germany built the Berlin wall that divided Germany, Berlin. The socialist unity party and the Stasi controlled everything. (Stasi files. ©2003 A Glees).

13 Aug 1961 – Construction of the Berlin wall. (German politics. Peter Pulzer ©1995 US).

13 August 1961 – Barbed wire goes up around West Berlin as construction of the Berlin wall begins. Movements between East and West Berlin were restricted for the next 28 years. (Family history. August 2009 p11).

1962 – Strauss as defence minister accused Der Spiegel of revealing German military secrets and put some of the magazines executives in jail. The magazine was run by Herr Augstein, a lefty, critical of Strauss. (Last days of America. (c)1981 PE Erdman.).

Late 1968 – Germany, six connected suicides 8 Oct 1968 Major general Herst Wendland, deputy head of BND, German equivalent to the CIA, shot dead. Same day Admiral Hermann Ludker deputy head of logistics of NATO, fatally shot. Within days 4 more bodies lt colonel Johannes Grimm, shot, Gerald Bohm, drowned. Edeltraud Gapentin, poisoned. Hans Heinrich Schenk hanged. All were declared suicides, leaks of NATO secrets? (The annals of unsolved crime. EJ Epstein ©2012 US).

15 Oct 1968 – Hans Heinrich Schenk, German ministry official, hanged by rope. (The annals of unsolved crime. EJ Epstein (C)2012 US).

16 Oct 1968 – Edeltrud Grapentin, German ministry official, sleeping pills overdose. (The annals of unsolved crime. EJ Epstein (C)2012 US)

18 Oct 1968 – Colonel Johannes Grimm, German defence agency, shot by pistol. (The annals of unsolved crime. EJ Epstein ©2012 US)

23 Oct 1968 – Gerald Bohm, German ministry official. drowned in river. (The annals of unsolved crime. EJ Epstein ©2012 US).

1970s – Germany turned Socialist under Willy Brandt. The creation of the European monetary union. It was the first time since 1945 that Bonn had taken a political line against the US. (Last days of America. ©1981 PC Erdman).

1970s – The Germans had dozens of nuclear reactors operating and their nuclear industry began to grow. Helmut Schmidt and Jimmy Carter. German exports and advanced nuclear technology. Four nuclear giants, AEG, Brown Boveri, Siemens and the Kraftwerk union. (Last days of America. ©1981 PE Erdman).

10 Feb 1970 – Munich airport 3 terrorists attacked El Al passengers in a bus with guns and grenades. 1 passenger was killed, and 11 injured. All 3 terrorists were captured. The action organisation for the liberation of Palestine and the popular democratic front for the liberation of Palestine were freed after the 6 Sept 1970 attacks.

10 Feb 1970 – Attack on the Munich airport 3 terrorists attacked El Al passengers in a bus at Munich airport with guns and grenades. One passenger was killed and 11 injured. All 3 terrorists were captured by airport police. The action organisation for the liberation of Palestine and the peoples democratic front for the liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for the attack.

17 Feb 1870 – Foiled hijack attempt on El Al airliner 3 would be hijackers were freed in under 2 months.

21 Feb 1970 – A bomb exploded aboard a Frankfurt to Vienna flight, it landed safely in Frankfurt.

6 Sept 1970 – Four airliners were hijacked over the Atlantic ocean on 11 Sept, a fifth was hijacked. TWA Boeing 707 from Frankfurt, Swissair DC8 from Zurich, El Al Boeing 707 from Amsterdam ,PAN American Boeing from Amsterdam. Sept 11 the fifth was BOAC VC 10 to Beirut. PFLP responsible.

17 Dec 1970 – 5 terrorists were arrested in Munich for attempting to sabotage an El Al plane. They got 3 months in prison.

1972  - Kidnappings of Israelis at the 1972 Olympic games in Munich was followed by airline hijackings and car bombings carried out by different factions supported by Qaddafi, who was in turn supported by the Soviet union. (Americas wars. ©2003 P Huchthausen).

19 Oct 1977 – Kidnapped employers president, Hanns Martin Schleyer, was found dead. (German politics. Peter Pulzer. ©1995 US).

1988 – Fuchs was released on 23 June 1954 and taken to London airport by police. Once in East Germany Fuchs gained membership of the east German Communist party. Fuchs died in 1988 aged 78. (Treachery. C Pincher ©201 UK).

1989 – East Germany, the Stasi ruled for nearly 40 years to stifle unrest. By the time the Berlin wall fell in 1989 the Stasi had grown to more than 91,000 officers. East Germany. (BBC Antony Zurcher 1 Nov 2013).

1989- At one time or another, one East German in three had acted as an informer for the security service, the Stasi. (German politics. Peter Pulzer. ©1995 US).

3 Oct 1990 - Opening of the Berlin wall, re-unification. (German politics. Peter Pulzer ©1995 US).

1995 – German politics 1945-1995 Peter Pulzer Oxford uni press New York. ISBN 0-19-878111-3 pbk.

June 1999 – Joel F Harrison. Escape from the great confinement. The genealogy of the German workhouse. Journal of modern history 71.

2003 – German police raided offices and houses of SPAG, a German registered St Petersburg Russia  run holding company. It was laundering tens of millions of Euros and human trafficking. Organised crime and extortion. No arrests. (Deception. E Lucas ©2012 UK).

Sept 2007 – German pipeline monopoly Sunimex blamed Russian company LUKov for cutting crude oil supplies to Germany over the month of August, LUKovs attempt to gain better terms from Sunimex and supplies to Germany by Sept 2007 and the two companies reached a compromise. Reuters reported oil traders. (Stratfor intel summary. 24 August 2007).

2010 – Nearly 50,000 women, black and Latin are sex trafficked to Holland and Germany, which is legal. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

2011 – Locating your German ancestors place of origin Eric Kopittke.

Dec 2011 – Corruption making Euro debt crisis worse. NGO Richard Carter. AFP Berlin.

25 Nov 2012 – European parliament urged to ban boxes for unwanted infants, baby box. Maria Cheng and David Rising AP Berlin. TV news Canada.

2013 – A companion to bioethics. Helga Kuhse, Peter Singer. Medical experiments on Jews, Gypsies and Slavs. Google books.

2013 – Many parts of Europe also suffered severe flooding in 2013. Hailstorms in Germany and France. (The Economist. March April 2014).

4 July 2014 – Law enforcement Examiner. Jim Kouri. NSA scandal. US double agent arrested by German police. Suspicion of spying.

5 July 2014 – BBC Spying, A US envoy was arrested. An alleged spy, employee of German foreign intel service BND. BBC Steve Evans in Berlin. A 31 year old man was arrested

5 July 2014 – Derek Scally. The Irish Times. NSA whistleblowers testimony at Bundestag committee. William Binney and Thomas Drake. The goal is control of the people. Ultimate form of control.

7 July 2014 – CIA was involved in US spying on Germany report. Huffington Post Mark Hosenball.

8 July 2014 – Reuters. US Germany spying CIA was involved in a spying operation against Germany.

10 July 2014 – Daily Mail UK. Germany asks US spy to leave the country. CIA man expelled from Berlin. Allan Hall.

11 July 2014 – Germany kicks out top US spy over espionage claims. TVNZ. I cant recall an instance since the end of the cold war in which the intelligence official was asked to leave a county. CIA station chief.

11 July 2014 – Stuff.co.nz. Edith Honan. Elly Park. Reuters. Hessy Taff was 6 months old in 1935. Cover photo chosen by Nazis. Taff’s parent born in Latvia in 1932. The family fled to Paris, by 1940 the Nazis had entered France, the family was on the run to Cuba in 1942, then to the US in 1949. Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Israel. 1987 book about Latvian Jews.