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
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