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1 day ago · The Munich Agreement [a] was an agreement reached in Munich on 30 September 1938, by Nazi Germany, Great Britain, the French Republic, and Fascist Italy. The agreement provided for the German annexation of part of Czechoslovakia called the Sudetenland, where more than three million people, mainly ethnic Germans, lived. [1]
2 days ago · Early life Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich was born in 1904 in Halle an der Saale to composer and opera singer Richard Bruno Heydrich and his wife, Elisabeth Anna Maria Amalia Heydrich (née Krantz). His father came from a Protestant family, but converted to Elisabeth's Roman Catholic faith upon marriage. Reinhard was an altar boy, attending evening prayers and Mass every week with his mother ...
5 days ago · The ministry of economy and that of food and agriculture, both in the Reich and in Prussia, were held by the Nationalist Hugenberg. The foreign ministry was held by Konstantin, Freiherr (baron) von Neurath, a career diplomat of conservative views, while the ministry of defense was led by Gen. Werner von Blomberg.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
1 day ago · Neville Chamberlain. Arthur Neville Chamberlain FRS ( / ˈtʃeɪmbərlɪn /; 18 March 1869 – 9 November 1940) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940 and Leader of the Conservative Party from May 1937 to October 1940. He is best known for his foreign policy of appeasement, and in ...
3 days ago · The Friedenskirche (Church of Peace) where the wedding of Prince Georg Friedrich of Prussia and Princess Sophie von Isenburg took place on Saturday August 27th 2011, is located in the south eastern part of the park of Sanssouci and was built for king Frederick William IV. of Prussia (1795-1861) from 1845 to 1848 by the architects Ludwig Persius ...
5 days ago · Josef Dietrich (born May 28, 1892, Hawangen, Germany—died April 21, 1966, Ludwigsburg, West Germany) was a German SS officer who commanded Adolf Hitler ’s bodyguard and later led an SS panzer (armoured) army in World War II. A butcher’s apprentice, Dietrich joined the German army in 1911 and rose to the rank of sergeant during World War I.
3 days ago · 15 June. Marriage of Sheikh Hamad bin Saif bin Surur Al-Sharqi of Fujairah and name unknown at Schwaigern, Germany. Civil marriage of Prince Jiri Lobkowicz and Zdenka Belas or Hojková at Melník Castle, Czechia. Civil marriage of Constantin Maschek Freiherr von Maasburg and Princess Marie-Sophie Lobkowicz at München, Germany.
