World Events

Posted in 1933

  • Adolf Hitler, Chancellor of GermanyGermany leaves the League of Nations; the first concentration camps are established; Germany becomes a one party state.
  • Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany; forms Nazi Cabinet and gains dictatorial powers.
  • Freud's books are burnt in Berlin; Nazis attack modernism. Artists and writers begin to leave Germany (60,000 between 1933 and 1939).
  • Japan leaves the League of Nations.
  • Prohibition is repealed in the USA.

 

Sigmund Freud circa 1941