1937 in Germany

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Events in the year 1937 in Germany.

Incumbents

Head of State and Chancellor

10 March — The Encyclical Mit brennender Sorge of Pope Pius XI is published in Nazi Germany.
6 May — Hindenburg disaster: In the United States, the German airship Hindenburg bursts into flame when mooring to a mast in Lakehurst, New Jersey. Thirteen passengers, 22 crew and one member of the ground crew were killed.
7 May — Spanish Civil War: The German Condor Legion Fighter Group, equipped with Heinkel He 51 biplanes, arrives in Spain to assist Francisco Franco's forces.
28 May - Volkswagen, state-owned carmaker, is formed to produce the new people's car.[1]
8 June — Carl Orff's Carmina Burana premieres in Frankfurt, Germany.
20 July — The Geibeltbad Pirna is opened in Dresden, Germany.
6-13 September — The 9th Nazi Party Congress is held and titled the "Rally of Labour" (Reichsparteitag der Arbeit) to highlight the reduction of unemployment in Germany since the Nazi rise to power.
13 October — Germany, in a note to Brussels, guarantees the inviolability and integrity of Belgium so long as the latter abstains from military action against Germany
5 November — In the Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring "living space" for the German people (recorded in the Hossbach Memorandum)

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