Curated playlist
1945 disestablishments in Germany
- Peenemünde Army Research CenterPeenemünde had what is documented as the world's first closed-circuit television system, built to track rockets.
- East PrussiaEast Prussia held 2.49 million people in 1939, but only 193,000 survivors by spring 1945.
- SchutzstaffelThe SS shrank from 1,000 members to 280 before Heinrich Himmler took it over. By the end of 1933 it had 209,000.
- Flensburg GovernmentAn admiral with no political experience led Germany's last Nazi government for exactly three weeks.
- Hitler YouthIn 1944, over 20,000 Hitler Youth teenagers fought in the Battle of Normandy. About 3,000 of them died there.
- SturmabteilungThe Sturmabteilung, or SA, was the first paramilitary force of Hitler's Nazi Party, and its name loosely means stormtroopers. On the 2nd of October 1933, its chief of staff, Ernst Röhm, sent a letter to General Walter von Reichenau of the…
- Nazi GermanyNazi Germany's leaders promised it would last a thousand years, but it lasted twelve. It ended in May 1945.
- Romani HolocaustIn May 1944, Roma at Auschwitz-Birkenau armed themselves with iron pipes and shovels.
- GestapoThe all-seeing Gestapo was mostly a myth. Historians found denunciations started 80 percent of its investigations.
- German Army (1935–1945)Germany's army hit its goal of 36 divisions just 17 months after Hitler announced rearmament in 1935.