The Deutsche Studentenschaft attacked Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institut für Sexualwissenschaft📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GERMANY🗓️ 6 May 1933Organization of student unions in Weimar- and Nazi-era Germany
World War II: Axis Sally delivers her last propaganda broadcast to Allied troops.📜 WARS🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ 6 May 1945American Nazi propagandist (1900–1988)
The Hitler Diaries are revealed as a hoax after being examined by new experts.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ 6 May 1983Forged journals purportedly by Adolf Hitler
Election of Count Adolf of Nassau as King of the Romans in the Dominican monastery of Frankfurt.📜 POLITICS🌍 GERMANY🗓️ 5 May 1292King of Germany from 1292 to 1298
Russia and Prussia sign the Treaty of St. Petersburg.📜 CITIES🌍 RUSSIA🗓️ 5 May 1762Country in Eastern Europe and North Asia
The General Treaty📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ 5 May 19551952 treaty giving limited sovereignty to West Germany
World War II: The German surrender at Lüneburg Heath is signed📜 WARS🌍 UNITED KINGDOM🗓️ 4 May 1945Surrender of German armed forces in Belgium, Denmark, and northwest Germany on 4 May 1945
World War II: Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg is liberated by the British Army.📜 INDIAN ARMY🌍 UNITED KINGDOM🗓️ 4 May 1945Nazi concentration camp network in northern Germany
Erich Honecker becomes First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany📜 INDIAN ARMY🌍 GERMANY🗓️ 3 May 1971Leader of East Germany from 1971 to 1989
Germany’s independent labor unions are replaced by the German Labour Front.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GERMANY🗓️ 2 May 1933Labour organization in Nazi Germany
World War II: A death march from Dachau to the Austrian border is halted by the segregated📜 INDIAN ARMY🌍 GERMANY🗓️ 2 May 1945Nazi forced transfers of prisoners
World War II: The US 82nd Airborne Division liberates Wöbbelin concentration camp finding 1📜 WARS🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ 2 May 1945Nazi concentration camp in Ludwigslust, Germany
World War II: The Soviet Union announces the fall of Berlin.📜 ECONOMY🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ 2 May 1945Country in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991
Berthold Seliger launches a rocket with three stages and a maximum flight altitude of more than 100 kilometres (62 mi) near Cuxhaven. It is the only sounding rocket developed in Germany.📜 WARS🌍 GERMANY🗓️ 2 May 1963Defunct German aeronautical research & development company (1961–64)
Cold War: Hungary begins dismantling its border fence with Austria📜 SPACE🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ 2 May 19891947–1991 geopolitical rivalry between US and USSR
An E. coli outbreak strikes Europe📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GERMANY🗓️ 2 May 2011Foodborne illness outbreak
German troops enter Munich to suppress the Bavarian Soviet Republic.📜 CITIES🌍 GERMANY🗓️ 1 May 1919Capital of Bavaria, Germany
World War II: Up to 2📜 INDIAN ARMY🌍 GERMANY🗓️ 1 May 19451945 mass suicide in Germany following the Red Army invasion
World War II: German radio broadcasts news of Adolf Hitler’s death📜 HISTORY🌍 GERMANY🗓️ 1 May 19451939–1945 global conflict
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