Trial
A Soviet military tribunal sentences Weidling to 25 years of imprisonment for not surrendering Berlin sooner
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1952 in Germany
Explore 19 historical events and records for Germany in 1952.
Historical records for Germany in 1952
Sorted by month and day. Records with no month are shown last. Showing 19 of 19 unique records.
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19Named people on this page
4Places on this page
May
Birth of Karl Bartos
Birth of Karl Bartos, later Kraftwerk electronic percussionist, keyboard player and songwriter.
June
Clash by Night
Directs Clash by Night.
July
Germany v Brazil Olympic Quarter-final
Plays for Germany in a 4-2 extra-time Olympic quarter-final victory over Brazil at Töölön Pallokenttä in Helsinki.
Germany v Brazil Olympic Quarter-final
Plays for Germany in a 4-2 extra-time Olympic quarter-final victory over Brazil at Töölön Pallokenttä in Helsinki.
Germany v Brazil Olympic Quarter-final
Plays for Germany in a 4-2 extra-time Olympic quarter-final victory over Brazil at Töölön Pallokenttä in Helsinki.
Germany v Brazil Olympic Quarter-final
Plays for Germany in a 4-2 extra-time Olympic quarter-final victory over Brazil at Töölön Pallokenttä in Helsinki.
Germany v Brazil Olympic Quarter-final
Plays for Germany in a 4-2 extra-time Olympic quarter-final victory over Brazil at Töölön Pallokenttä in Helsinki.
Germany v Brazil Olympic Quarter-final
Plays for Germany in a 4-2 extra-time Olympic quarter-final victory over Brazil at Töölön Pallokenttä in Helsinki.
Germany v Brazil Olympic Quarter-final
Plays for Germany in a 4-2 extra-time Olympic quarter-final victory over Brazil at Töölön Pallokenttä in Helsinki.
Germany v Brazil Olympic Quarter-final
Plays for Germany in a 4-2 extra-time Olympic quarter-final victory over Brazil at Töölön Pallokenttä in Helsinki.
Germany v Brazil Olympic Quarter-final
Plays for Germany in a 4-2 extra-time Olympic quarter-final victory over Brazil at Töölön Pallokenttä in Helsinki.
Germany v Brazil Olympic Quarter-final
Plays for Germany in a 4-2 extra-time Olympic quarter-final victory over Brazil at Töölön Pallokenttä in Helsinki.
Germany v Brazil Olympic Quarter-final
Plays for Germany in a 4-2 extra-time Olympic quarter-final victory over Brazil at Töölön Pallokenttä in Helsinki.
Other events (month unknown)
Arrest of Albrecht Kesselring
Pardoned & freed
Discovery of Cepheid Stars
Recalculates the size of the known universe, doubling the previous calculation made by Hubble in 1929, announces this finding to considerable astonishment at the 1952 meeting of the International Astronomical Union in Rome
Education
Becomes a doctor of philosophy and classics (PhD)
Not Just at Christmas
Böll published Nicht nur zur Weihnachtszeit, a satirical story about family ritual.
Trial
Condemned in Russia to a 10-years sentence in 1952 for war crimes
How these records were prepared
Generated from the World History Database historical_events table. Identical display records are collapsed; descriptions otherwise retain the stored text. Coverage and source quality vary. Check primary and specialist sources before citing individual historical claims.