15 February 1368
Birth of Sigismund
Birth of Sigismund son of Charles IV and Elizabeth of Pomerania
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Browse historical events and people recorded at Nuremberg in Germany. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Birth of Sigismund son of Charles IV and Elizabeth of Pomerania
Sigismund is born and later becomes King of Hungary Bohemia and Germany
Adds an anonymous preface presenting the Copernican model as a calculating hypothesis.
Produces the first edition of the landmark astronomical work.
The preface is printed without Copernicus's authorship.
Prints Copernicus's De revolutionibus in Nuremberg.
Publishes the names Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto for Jupiter's four large moons.
Founds the Nuremberg branch of the NSDAP
Returns with the majority of the USPD to the SPD during the Nuremberg reunification congress.
Helps reunify the SPD and most of the USPD at a joint Nuremberg congress adopting a common political program.
Participates in the reunification of most of the USPD with the SPD at the Nuremberg party congress.
1st Nuremberg Nazi rally is held, Julius Streicher had suggested the location
Addresses what he calls a, "Congress of Victory"
Promotes the boycott of Jewish businesses and professions as part of the Nazi campaign to intimidate German Jews.
Addresses 200,000 & promises that Nuremberg rallies will meet for 100 years
Recieves a commission to construct a stadium at Nuremberg for the NSDAP Pary rallies
First day of the Nuremberg Rally
Placed in charge of security at the NSDAP party rally
A week long Nazi rally is held in Nuremberg
Placed in charge of security at the NSDAP party rally
Announces his plan for "a German Reich of German nationals"
In a speech at Nuremberg Hitler demands that Benes meets the German Czech claims
Hitler used his Nuremberg speech to demand self-determination for the Sudeten Germans and intensify pressure on Czechoslovakia.
Given life imprisonment but released in 1955
Highest surviving SS-leader, Chief of RSHA, the central Nazi intelligence organ, commanded many of the Einsatzgruppen and several concentration camps, sentenced to death
Acquitted of all charges
Sentenced to 25 years imprisonment, serves 10 years
Head of Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW), sentenced to death
Head of Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW), sentenced to death
The International Military Tribunal indictment names Jodl among the leading German defendants charged with major war crimes.
Death of Robert Ley, commits suicide, before the Nuremberg trial begins
Jodl appears before the International Military Tribunal as the main Nuremberg trial begins.
Sentenced to 10 yrs imprisonment, released 30 September 1956
Sentenced to 20 yrs
Sentenced to death
Sentenced to 20 yrs, Head of the Hitlerjugend, later Gauleiter of Vienna. Expressed repentance
Leader of the Kriegsmarine until his retirement in 1943, succeeded by D”nitz, released (ill health) September 26, 1955
Brought to trial by the Allies at the Military Tribunal at Nuremberg but acquited
Sentenced to death, Plenipotentiary of the Nazi slave labor program
Sentenced to death, ruler of the General Government in occupied Poland
Acquited, popular radio commentator, and head of the news division of the Nazi Propaganda Ministry, tried in place of Joseph Goebbels
Testifies at the Nuremburg trials that Goebbels 1st thought of burning the Reichstag
Acquited, pre-war president of the Reichsbank. Admitted to violating the Treaty of Versailles
Sentenced to death
Sentenced to death, incited hatred and murder against the Jews through his weekly newspaper, Der Sturmer
Sentenced to 10 yrs imprisonment, released 30 September 1956. D”nitz is found guilty of breaching the 1936 Second London Naval Treaty, but his sentence was not assessed on the ground of his breaches of the international law of submarine warfare
Foreign Secretary until 1938, succeeded by Ribbentrop, later, Protector of Bohemia and Moravia, resigned in 1943 due to dispute with Hitler, released (ill health) November 6, 1954
Head of DAF, The German Labour Front, commits suicide on October 25, 1945, before the trial begins
Tried at the Nuremberg war crimes trial. Convicted & handed over to the Polish authorities
Hitler's Minister of Economics, succeeded Schacht as head of the Reichsbank, released due to ill health on May 16, 1957
Sentenced to death, Hitler's Minister of the Interior, author of the Nuremberg Race Laws
Testifies at the Nuremburg trials that Goebbels 1st thought of burning the Reichstag
Sentenced to death, incited hatred and murder against the Jews through his weekly newspaper, Der Sturmer
Head of DAF, The German Labour Front, commits suicide on October 25, 1945, before the trial begins
Sentenced to 20 years for deporting Jews while Governor of Vienna
The prosecution introduces as evidence a photograph of Speer visiting Mauthausen concentration camp. Imprisoned for 20 years for the extensive use of slave labour. Claims he was "unpolitical" & had no knowledge of the crimes inside the Reich. Acquitted on the charge of having had knowledge of a "common plan for aggressive war"
Acquitted of all charges
Found guilty of war crimes & of crimes against humanity
The international military tribunal sentences Borman in absentia to death
Sentenced at Nuremburg to life in prison at Spandau in Berlin
Sentenced to life for managing the SS account of gold teeth taken from dead Jews
Tried at the Nuremberg war crimes trial
In a deposition estimates that 3,000,000 died under his command at Auschwitz. In a deposition estimates at least 2,500,000 victims were executed and exterminate
The Tribunal convicts Jodl of conspiracy, crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The International Military Tribunal finds Jodl guilty on all four counts and sentences him to death.
Acquited at the Nuremberg war crimes trials
Sentenced to 15 yrs but released from Spandau prison in 1954. Found guilty of war crimes & crimes against humanity
Swallows poison hours before his scheduled execution
Swallows poison hours before his scheduled execution
Alfred Jodl dies at Nuremberg after execution by hanging.
1st of the condemned Nazis to hang at Nuremberg
Death of Wilhelm Heitel, executed for war crimes
1st of the condemned Nazis to hang at Nuremberg
Executed for planning a war of aggression, war crimes & crimes against humanity
Jodl is hanged after conviction for conspiracy, crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Found guilty of war crimes & crimes against humanity & hanged
Sentenced to 8 months by a denazification court as a war criminal
Hitler's former private physician is found guilty of war crimes & hanged
Death of Johannes Blaskowitz, commits suicide
Death of Johannes Blaskowitz, commits suicide. Commits suicide after being indicted as a war criminal before being brought to trial
Commits suicide after being indicted as a war criminal before being brought to trial
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