Hitler
March 27, 1933
Hitler orders a one-day nationwide boycott of Jewish merchants, to begin on April 1 and to be enforced by the presence of SS troops outside Jewish-owned stores. WIKI
It is likely that Hitler spent a day or two at his residence in Haus Wachenfeld, where history records him meeting with Joseph Goebbel and Otto Dietrich the day prior. During this time one could conclude that he would have been working on finalizing the "Provisional Law on the Coordination of the States with the Reich" which would go into law 4 days later on the 31st of March. It is believed by historians that he would have travelled by train (12-14hrs) back to Berlin prior to the April 1st boycott of Jewish merchants began.
"Haus Wachenfeld" was built in 1916 for a banker named Winter, as a vacation cottage (his wife's maiden name was Wachenfeld). It was a modest house, with only one large room and a kitchen on the main floor. Through his half-sister Angela Raubal, Hitler rented this house in 1927 for 100 Reichsmarks per month (some sources say in 1928), and he secured the rights to purchase it in 1932. He bought the house in June 1933 for 40,000 Goldmarks. After his election as Reichskanzler he commissioned architect Alois Degano to remodel the house, first with a sunroom added to the front (where there had been only an open front porch), a garage with a terrace on top, and additional out-buildings (later the Berghof Adjutancy). The major modifications were completed in mid-1933, with further small changes in 1934. The extensive second remodeling, which resulted in the Berghof, was carried out by Degano in 1936. ThirdReichRuins
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March 17, 2025
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180 – Commodus becomes sole emperor of the Roman Empire at the age of eighteen,
following the death of his father, Marcus Aurelius.
455 – Petronius Maximus becomes, with support of the Roman Senate, emperor of
the Western Roman Empire; he forces Licinia Eudoxia, the widow of his
predecessor, Valentinian III, to marry him.
1337 – Edward, the Black Prince is made Duke of Cornwall, the first Duchy in England.
1400 – Turko-Mongol emperor Timur sacks Damascus.
1776 – American Revolution: The British Army evacuates Boston, ending the Siege of Boston,
after George Washington and Henry Knox place artillery in positions overlooking the city.
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result, the Malay Peninsula is dominated by the British, while Sumatra and Java and
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Zealand Wars.
1861 – The Kingdom of Italy is proclaimed.
1862 – The first railway line of Finland between cities of Helsinki and Hämeenlinna,
called Päärata, is officially opened.
1921 – The Second Polish Republic adopts the March Constitution.
1942 – Holocaust: The first Jews from the Lvov Ghetto are gassed at the Belzec death
camp in what is today eastern Poland.
1945 – The Ludendorff Bridge in Remagen, Germany, collapses, ten days after its capture.
1948 – Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom sign
the Treaty of Brussels, a precursor to the North Atlantic Treaty establishing NATO.
1950 – Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley announce the creation of element
98, which they name "californium".
1958 – The United States launches the first solar-powered satellite, which is also the first
satellite to achieve a long-term orbit.
1960 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the National Security Council directive on
the anti-Cuban covert action program that will ultimately lead to the Bay of Pigs
Invasion.
1966 – Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the DSV Alvin submarine finds a missing
American hydrogen bomb.
1968 – As a result of nerve gas testing by the U.S. Army Chemical Corps in Skull Valley, Utah,
over 6,000 sheep are found dead.
1969 – Golda Meir becomes the first female Prime Minister of Israel.
1988 – Eritrean War of Independence: The Nadew Command, an Ethiopian army corps
in Eritrea, is attacked on three sides by military units of the Eritrean People's Liberation
Front in the opening action of the Battle of Afabet.
1992 – Israeli Embassy attack in Buenos Aires: Car bomb attack kills 29 and injures 242.
1992 – A referendum to end apartheid in South Africa is passed 68.7% to 31.2%.
2003 – Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council, Robin Cook,
resigns from the British Cabinet in disagreement with government plans for the 2003
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