The Nazis in Power: The Night of the Long Knives (TRIH eps 404-410)
1934 · Resource
“We must have a healthy people to dominate in the world”. In July 1933, Hitler’s Nazi party passed a new law for the compulsory sterilisation of anyone with a physical disability, or “congenital feeble-mindedness”. They claimed this was scientifically sound, and for the moral and biological good of the Aryan race. The measure darkly foreshadowed the tragedies to come, as Nazi Germany ratcheted up its horrific program of racial sterilisation, euthanasia and extermination. But why did the Nazis...
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- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- D-Day (Operation Overlord) (1944)
- Pop music: the 1930s (1930)
- Pop music: the 1940s (1940)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)
- Discovery of penicillin (1928)
- Wall Street Crash (1929)