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On this day, February 16, 1987, John Demjanjuk’s trial opened in Jerusalem. Prosecutors charged that he was the Treblinka guard known as Ivan the Terrible. That identification was later overturned.
On this day, August 19, 1934, a German referendum approved Adolf Hitler’s combination of the offices of president and chancellor under the title Führer.
On this day, May 15, 1944, German and Hungarian authorities began systematic deportations of Jews from Hungary. About 437,000 people were deported by July 9.
On this day, November 12, 1938, Hermann Göring imposed a one-billion-Reichsmark fine on German Jews after the November pogrom.
On this day, October 27, 1938, the Reich Security Main Office ordered the arrest of Jews with Polish passports. About 17,000 were expelled over the next two days.
On this day, April 26, 1933, Hermann Göring promulgated the Prussian law creating the Secret State Police Office, later known as the Gestapo.
On this day, April 1, 1933, Nazi stormtroopers stood outside Jewish-owned shops across Germany in a one-day national boycott.
Soviet authorities later said Raoul Wallenberg died in Moscow’s Lubyanka prison on July 17, 1947. His fate has never been independently established.
On this day, February 4, 1938, Adolf Hitler dismissed the war minister and army commander and created the High Command of the Armed Forces under his personal authority.
On this day, March 5, 1947, the United States opened the Justice Case in Nuremberg against German judges and prosecutors.
On this day, August 8, 1938, the SS transferred the first prisoners from Dachau to Mauthausen and forced them to build the camp.
On this day, August 3, 1902, Regina Jonas was born in Berlin. In 1935 she became the first woman known to have been ordained as a rabbi.
