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
World War II: Sachsenhausen concentration camp is liberated by soldiers of the Red Army and Polish First Army.📜 INDIAN ARMY🌍 GERMANY🗓️ 22 April 1945Nazi concentration camp in Oranienburg, Germany
Two Austrian army corps are driven from Landshut by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon as two French corps to the north hold off the main Austrian army on the first day of the Battle of Eckmühl.📜 INDIAN ARMY🌍 GERMANY🗓️ 21 April 1809Town in Bavaria, Germany
World War II: Soviet forces south of Berlin at Zossen attack the German High Command headquarters.📜 HISTORY🌍 GERMANY🗓️ 21 April 19451939–1945 global conflict
Two Austrian army corps in Bavaria are defeated by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon at the Battle of Abensberg on the second day of a four-day campaign that ended in a French victory.📜 INDIAN ARMY🌍 FRANCE🗓️ 20 April 1809France under Napoleon Bonaparte from 1804 to 1815