World War II: Stalag Luft I prisoner-of-war camp near Barth📜 WARS🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ 30 April 1945Nazi prisoner-of-war camp in Barth, Germany during World War II
World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide after being married for less than 40 hours. Soviet soldiers raise the Victory Banner over the Reichstag building.📜 WARS🌍 GERMANY🗓️ 30 April 1945Subterranean bunker complex for Adolf Hitler
Neo-Nazi David Copeland carries out the last of his three nail bombings in London at the Admiral Duncan gay pub📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED KINGDOM🗓️ 30 April 1999Series of terror attacks in the British capital
Dachau concentration camp is liberated by United States troops.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ 29 April 1945Nazi concentration camp in Germany (1933–1945)
World War II: Adolf Hitler marries his longtime partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker and designates Admiral Karl Dönitz as his successor.📜 WARS🌍 GERMANY🗓️ 29 April 1945Dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945
A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police📜 WARS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ 28 April 188719th and 20th-century political police in Prussia
The Holocaust: Nazi Germany carries out its final use of gas chambers to execute 33 Upper Austrian socialist and communist leaders in Mauthausen concentration camp.📜 WARS🌍 GERMANY🗓️ 28 April 1945Genocide of European Jews by Nazi Germany
The West German news magazine Stern begins publishing excerpts from the purported diaries of Adolf Hitler📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GERMANY🗓️ 28 April 1983German weekly news magazine
World War II: The last German formations withdraw from Finland to Norway. The Lapland War and thus📜 WARS🌍 GERMANY🗓️ 27 April 19451944–1945 war between Finland and Germany
The U.S. Department of Justice bars Austrian President Kurt Waldheim (and his wife📜 INDIAN ARMY🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ 27 April 1987U.S. federal executive department
Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic.📜 POLITICS🌍 GERMANY🗓️ 26 April 1925President of Germany from 1925 to 1934
Robert Steinhäuser kills 16 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GERMANY🗓️ 26 April 20022002 mass shooting in Germany
Nazi Germany issues the Law Against Overcrowding in Schools and Universities limiting the number of Jewish students able to attend public schools and universities.📜 WARS🌍 GERMANY🗓️ 25 April 1933German state from 1933 to 1945
World War II: The last German troops retreat from Finnish soil in Lapland📜 WARS🌍 GERMANY🗓️ 25 April 19451944–1945 war between Finland and Germany
World War II: United States and Soviet reconnaissance troops meet in Torgau and Strehla along the River Elbe📜 HISTORY🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ 25 April 19451939–1945 global conflict
The Treaty of Berlin is signed. Germany and the Soviet Union each pledge neutrality in the event of an attack on the other by a third party for the next five years.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GERMANY🗓️ 24 April 1926Agreement between Germany and the Soviet Union
Nazi Germany begins its persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses by shutting down the Watch Tower Society office in Magdeburg.📜 WARS🌍 GERMANY🗓️ 24 April 1933German state from 1933 to 1945
The Munich Reinheitsgebot (regarding the ingredients of beer) takes effect in all of Bavaria.📜 HISTORY🌍 GERMANY🗓️ 23 April 1516Rules for manufacturing German beer
World War II: Adolf Hitler’s designated successor📜 WARS🌍 GERMANY🗓️ 23 April 1945Dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945