During
January 1936, the German Chancellor and Führer Adolf
Hitler resolved to reoccupy the Rhineland. In the first place Adolf
Hitler had planned to remilitarise the Rhineland in 1937, but chose in early
1936 to move remilitarisation forward by a year for several reasons, that is to
say the ratification by the French National Assembly of the Franco Soviet pact
of 1935 allowed him to present his coup both at home and abroad as a defensive
move against Franco Soviet encirclement.
Admiral
Graf Spee Commissioned 6 January 1936
Conrad
Patzig
Takes command of the Pocket Battleship
Admiral
Graf Spee on 6 January 1936 to
2
October 1937 Adolf
Hitler met with Konstantin
von Neurath and his Ambassador Joachim
von Ribbentrop on 12 February 1936 to ask their opinion of the likely foreign
response to remilitarisation Konstantin
von Neurath endorsed remilitarisation, but contended that Germany should negotiate
more before doing so while Joachim
von Ribbentrop argued for unilateral remilitarisation at once. Joachim
von Ribbentrop told Adolf
Hitler that if France went to war in reaction to German remilitarisation,
then United Kingdom would take arms with France, an assessment of the situation
that Konstantin
von Neurath did not agree with, but one that encouraged Adolf
Hitler to go ahead with remilitarisation.
29 March 1936, The Reichstag
elections recorded a record turnout of 98.8%, although the rules had been changed
in respect of spoilt papers-in that all ballot papers left blank were counted
as a vote for the National Socialists candidate, and only where the voter had
specifically written No against a candidate's name were they counted as a vote
against.
On 3 April 1936, Richard Hauptmann, convicted of the Lindbergh
for the kidnapping, and killing of the infant Charles Lindbergh III in 1932, is
executed by electrocution in New Jersey.
Prinz
Eugen Heavy cruiser
Laid down 23 April 1936
On 12 May 1936,
The first prototype of the
Messerschmitt
Bf 110 made its maiden flight from Augsburg-Haunstetten, Germany, with test
pilot Rudolf Opitz at the controls.
Ernst
Udet was appointed Director of the Technical Department of the Reichsluftfahrtministerium
(RLM) on 9 June 1936, with responsibility for all new Luftwaffe aircraft. Ernst
Udet department grew to a complex 26 departments and was split with inter-department
rivalries. Ernst
Udet failed to provide a firm leadership and his establishment soon broke
down into chaos, although Ernst
Udet, with no effective deputy and a poor staff seemed more happier when he
was inaccessible visiting aircraft factories and airfields.
Tirpitz
Battleship
Ordered 14 June 1936
Bismarck
Battleship
Laid down 1 July 1936
On 11 July 1936, Germany and Austria
signed an agreement in which Germany promised to respect Austria's sovereignty
and Austria agrees to be considered a state of the German people. In a secret
clause of this agreement, Austria was to permit the National Socialist Party.
For two weeks in 1-16 August 1936, Adolf
Hitler's national socialist dictatorship camouflaged its anti-Semitic, militaristic
character while hosting the Summer Olympics. Minimising its anti-Semitic schedule
and plans for territorial enlargement, the regime exploited the Games to impress
many foreign spectators and journalists with an image of a peaceful, tolerant
Germany. Having declined a proposed boycott of the 1936 Olympics, the United States
government and other western democracies missed the chance to take a stand that
modern-day commentators claimed might have restrained Adolf
Hitler and bolstered international opposition to national socialist tyranny.
After the Olympics, Germany's expansionism and the persecution of the Israelites
and other enemies of the state speeded up, climaxing in Second World War and the
final solution.
Z17
Diether von Roeder Laid down 9 September 1936
On 10 September
1936,
Dornier
Do 18 flying boat Zephir piloted by Lufthansa Flugkapitän Blankenburg
was launched from the Kriegsmarine seaplane tender Schwabenland by catapult in
the Azores.
Dornier
Do 18 flying boat Aeolus was launched just after.
Otto
Ciliax
Takes command of the Pocket Battleship
Admiral
Scheer on 22 September 1936 to
31
October 1938 Scharnhorst
Battleship
Launched 3 October 1936
Oswald Mosley married his mistress
Diana Guinness. They married in secret in Germany on 6 October 1936 in the Berlin
home of Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda Joseph
Goebbels. Adolf
Hitler was one of the guests.
Adolf
Hitler on 5 November 1936 told his top lieutenants that the German aim in
the Spanish Civil War was not entirely to aid the Spanish Nationalists, but rather,
to prolong the conflict to occupy the attention of the United Kingdom and France,
and to continue to widen the chasm between the United Kingdom and Italy.
Gneisenau Battleship
Launched 8 December 1936
On 12 December 1936, After the failure of Franco's
offensive on Madrid, Benito Mussolini decided to send regular army forces to Spain.
Benito Mussolini made this decision after consulting with Italian Minister of
Foreign Affairs Galeazzo Ciano and General Mario Roatta. Galeazzo Ciano and Mario
Roatta were two of the most important men in Italy at the time. Mario Roatta was
made the Commander-in-Chief of the Italian expeditionary force. General Luigi
Frusci became his Deputy Commander.
Graf
Zeppelin Aircraft Carrier
Laid down 28 December 1936
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