HISTORICAL DATA-1936:









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  • JANUARY:    As of January of this year North American Aviation has not yet joined the ranks of the leading and largest aircraft manufacturers in the United States. Its employee roster totals less than 200 people, and it has contracts with the Army Air  Corps to build O-47 observation planes, as well as other contracts to construct the BT-9 training plane. Production runs under these contracts are short and the company is firmly mired in the grip of the economic depression that is pervading the country at this time.  (SOURCE:  Article, North American's FLYING GUN by Jack Dean, in WINGS  magazine, August 1993, pg. 11).    

  • FEBRUARY

  • MARCH:    On March 7 of this year, a Saturday, German troops march into the previously demilitarized Rhineland; Britain takes no direct counteractions, but France calls on its General Staff to react to this provocation. The Army reluctantly agrees to rush 13 divisions to the Maginot Line fortifications.  (SOURCE:  Adolf Hitler by John Toland Ballantine Books ((paperback)), 1977, pg. 387).

  • MARCH (NO SPECIFIC DATE):    At some time during this month Jack Northrup embarks on the design of his model 7A. Jack is the chief of design and general manager of the Northrup Aircraft Company, a subsidiary of Douglas Aircraft Company. Model 7A is to be a twin-engined attack bomber.  (Source:  Article, "Triple Threat Three-In-One Bomber" by Norm Taylor, Airpower magazine, November 1989, Number 6, page 12 ff).  

  • APRIL

  • MAY:    At about this time (Spring, 1936) the U. S. Army Air Corps concludes testing the one and only prototype, twin-engine monoplane attack bomber at Langley Field in Virginia. It is the Curtis XA-14, and it is not accepted for large-scale production.  (SOURCE:  Article, Triple Threat Three-In-One Bomber by Norm Taylor, in AIRPOWER magazine, November 1989, Volume 19, Number 6, pp. 12-ff).

                            

                                               Curtiss XA-14

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  • JUNE:    On June 4 of this year the new British luxury liner the Queen Mary leaves England on her first trans-Atlantic crossing to New York.  Source:  Article:  "SS Queen Mary  the loss of HMS Curacoa", no author given, at:  https://navyhistory.au/ss-queen-mary-the-loss -of-hms-curacoa -1942/). 

  • JLY:    On July 1 of this year a third battalion is raised in the Munich-Freimann Barracks in Germany for the SS Verfuegungs Truppe. This is formed around a cadre that is drawn from the 1st and 4th Battalions of the Standarte [Regiment] 1 of the SS. Company commanders for this unit are suplied by  thed 4th Battalion of the regiment Volunteers from Bavaria and from Wuertemberg bring the battalion up to full strength.   (SOURCE:  DAS REICH  THE MILITARY ROLE OF THE 2ND SS DIVISION by James Lucas  Cassell Military Paperbacks  2002, pg. 18).

  •     Also on July 1 of this year in Germany Felix Steiner assumes command of Regiment "Deutschland"  in the rank of Standartenfuehrer.   (SOURCE:  DAS REICH  THE MILITARY ROLE OF THE 2ND SS DIVISION by James Lucas  Cassell Military Paperbacks  2002, pg. 18).

  • JULY:    Germany and Austria sign a treaty on July 11 of this year, and Article 1 of this treaty states that "The German Government recognizes the full sovereignty of the Federated State of Austria in the spirit of the pronouncements of the German Fuehrer and Chancellor of 21st May,  1935." However, according to the American staff for the prosecution of the alleged Axis war criminals, "plans for aggression in violation of that treaty [are] being made" at this same time.  (Source:  NAZI CONSPIRACY AND AGGRESSION Volume I Office of United States Chief of Counsel For Prosecution of Axis Criminality United States Government Printing Office Washington 1946 Chapter III, page 23).   

  • AUGUST

  • SEPTEMBER:    At some time between 8-14 September of this year, during the Nazi Party's Reichsparteitag ceremonies in Nuremberg, Germany Standards are presented to the "Germania" Regiment of the SS Verfuegungs Truppe and to its constituent battalions, and the regiment is officially named "Germania". Although the units making up the regiment are linked administratively, many technical reasons keep them from serving together, and this will create difficulties  in creating a uniform training routine.  (SOURCE:  DAS REICH  THE MILITARY ROLE OF THE 2ND SS DIVISION by James Lucas  Cassell Military Paperbacks  2002, pg. 24).  

  •     At some time during this month the French and Polish governments reach an agreement at Rambouillet, France, for France to loan some 2.6 billion francs to Poland over a five-year period. This will add about 12% to Poland's annual military budget, and gives Poland a much-needed margin to purchase new weapons.  (SOURCE:  THE POLISH CAMPAIGN 1939 by Steven Zaloga and Vincent Madej  Hippocrene Books, Inc. 1985, pg. 12).

  •     At about this time, (Autumn, 1936), in Germany a new and unaffiliated battion of the SS Vefuegungs Truppe is created, to be stationed in Nuremberg. It is therfefore called the "Nuremberg" or "N" battalion of the V-T, and Oberstuurmbannfuehrer Deutsch is its commander. In Nuremberg, the battalion's role is a ceremonial one, to be a participant in the annual Reichsparteitag ceremonies, and other functions. Its initial cadre is drawn from the "Deutschland" and the "Leibstandarte" regiments of the V-T. It is also a mounted (horse) unit. It is planned for this battalion to have three rifle companies, a machine-gun company and a headquarters detachment,along with a signals section and-essential for a ceremonial unit-a band. Finally, even though this was to be essentially a cavalry-type unit, it was assigned a motorized column as well.  (SOURCE:  DAS REICH  THE MILITARY ROLE OF THE 2ND SS DIVISION by James Lucas  Cassell Military Paperbacks  2002, pg. 25). 

  • OCTOBER:    In Germany on October 1 of this year the units of the Germania force are established as regiments within the SS Verfuegungs Truppe, and the Standarte now consists of three infantry battalions and three heavy weapons companies: infantry gun, anti-tank gun and motor cycle. (SOURCE:  DAS REICH  THE MILITARY ROLE OF THE 2ND SS DIVISION by James Lucas  Cassell Military Paperbacks  2002, pg. 24). 

  • OCTOBER:    In its edition dated Saturday, October 24 of this year the New York Times carries a front-page article received the previous day from Detroit, Michigan, written by Turner Catledge detailing an effort by mid-western business interests in conjunction with the Republican Party to undermine acceptance by their employees of the new Social Security law, and to "turn the Middle West's labor vote [in next month's national elections] away from the New Deal". The article says that "industrial employers" in that part of the country will print an anti-Social Security message on their workers' pay envelopes, calling their attention to the fact that, if President Roosevelt were to be re-elected, it would "mean an automatic wage deduction as of Jan. 1 because of the social security program..." The article goes on to say that the pay-envelope statement also suggests that there is no guarantee that the workers would ever get the money back, because that would depend upon the willingness of Congress in future years to appropriate the necessary funds to do so. Mr. Catledge writes that these special envelopes are being distributed to companies "in the industrial sections of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania" by Republican headquarters in those states. He also states that this tactic is just one of several methods being used by companies which are trying to influence their workers on the subject of the Social Security law. Mr. Catledge says that the Democratic Party has no easy answer to the pay envelope warnings, except to say, "The American Federation of Labor endorsed the Social Security Act." The article also says that newspapers in this area have conducted "editorial barrages" against the new law, claiming "all sorts of evils" will result from its adoption.  (SOURCE:  Article, "Industrialists Fighting Roosevelt By Tax Warning on Pay Envelopes" by Turner Catledge, New York Times, Saturday, October 24, 1936, pages 1 & 6, retrieved from the Timesmachine at: http://timesmachinenytimes.com/timesmachine/1936/10/24/issue/html  retrieved 12/14/2014-GD).

  • NOVEMBER

  • DECEMBER:    According to a report from the United States commercial attache' in Berlin sent on December 14 of this year, the Nazi government there is making changes to the finances of the Rheinische-Westphalisches Elektrizitaets Gesellschaft-the large electric utility serving the Rhineland and Westphalia in the Ruhr. At this time, however-according to this report-almost all of an outstanding US$10 million loan which had been floated in the United States (all but US$2.5 million)-has been bought back and retired by the borrower. For this reason, acording to the attache's report, Americans need not be especially concerned over these changes to the utility's finances.The original loan had been backed by a mortgage bond, but New York State law has not prevented the repurchase of the debt without permission from the creditors. (SOURCE: U.S. National Archives Record Group 151 C 600, Germany, "Commercial Attache' Miller to Domeratsky," December 14, 1936-quoted in  PRINCETON STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL FINANCE No. 75, November 1993 THE GERMAN BUYBACKS, 1932-1939: A CURE FOR OVERHANG? by Adam Klug page 1 at http://princeton.edu/~ies/IES_Studies/S75.pdf  accessed 3/28/2014-GD).

  • DECEMBER:    By the end of this month in Germany the Nuremberg or "N" Battalion of the SS Verfuegungs Truppe is still not fully manned; at this time it has only some 60% of its proposed strength.  (SOURCE:  DAS REICH  THE MILITARY ROLE OF THE 2ND SS DIVISION by James Lucas  Cassell Military Paperbacks  2002, pg. 25) 

  • (NO SPECIFIC DATE):    At some time during this year in the United States of America C. G. Bowers publishes (according to John A. Garraty) his answer to the work of Henry Adams. He writes a pro-Jefferson book called, "Jefferson in Power". (SOURCE:  The American Nation...to 1877-Second Edition ((Paperback))-John A. Garraty-Supplementary Rading List, pg. 228).

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  • (NO SPECIFIC DATE):    At some time during this year, Adolf Hitler's half-sister,  the widow Angela Raubal, leaves Hitler's household at Berchtesgaden in Bavaria. She has met , and will marry, a professor of architecture in Dresden. Hitler is now Chancellor of Germany, and he is angered by her decision to leave, and he shows his displeasure by refusing to send her a wedding present.         

  • (NO SPECIFIC DATE):    Also at some time during this year in Germany the 1st Battalion of the 1st Standarte, SS Verfuegungs Truppe takes up its garrison assignment in the newly constructed Freimann Barracks in Munich. The battalion soon enters upon a regimen of training, both in field exercises and in foot and arms  drills.  (SOURCE:   DAS REICH  THE MILITARY ROLE OF THE 2ND SS DIVISION by James Lucas  Cassell Military Paperbacks  2002, pg. 17).

  • (NO SPECIFIC DATE):    In Poland at some time during this year General Inspectorate of the Armed Forces forms a special committee, the KSUS, and appoints the distinguished General Kazimierz Sosnkowski to be its director. It is assigned the task of examining a program for modernizing and improving the capabilities of the Polish armed forces. The KSUS committee comes up with a rearmament program calling for the expansion of Poland's military industries, the production of new weapons to make up for various deficiencies, and the expansion of several neglected arms of the service, especially the air force, the armored force, antitank units, the transportation corps, and communications units. All of this is helped greatly by the agreement with France at Rambouillet in September of this year for a loan from France of 2.6 billion francs, to be delivered over a five-year period.  (SOURCE:  THE POLISH CAMPAIGN 1939 by Steven Zaloga and Vincent Madej  Hippocrene Books, Inc. 1985, pg. 12).

  • (NO SPECIFIC DATE):    In the United States at some time during this year the Chance Vought Aircraft Corporation-a subsidiary of United Aircraft Corporation-receives a contract to build 54 improved monoplane scout-bombers, to be designated the SB2U-1 Vindicator, for the U.S. Navy  (SOURCE:  Article, "CORSAIR" by Freeman Westell in WINGS magazine, June, 1995 Volume 25 Number 3, page 16).

  • (NO SPECIFIC DATE):    In California, U.S.A. Dr. Ernest O. Lawrence and his associates establish the Radiation Laboratory at the University of California at some time during this year. The purpose of the Laboratory is to conduct research in nuclear physics.  (SOURCE:  THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE ATOMIC BOMB Edited by Anthony Cave Brown and Charles B. MacDonald A Delta Book ((Dell Publishing Company-Paperback)) March, 1977, page 154).

  • (NO SPECIFIC DATE):    At some time during this year Colonel George C. Marshall, who has been serving as an aide-de-camp to Army Chief of Staff Pershing, is promoted to the permanent rank of brigadier general. (SOURCE: UNITED STATES ARMY IN WORLD WAR II The War Department WASHINGTON COMMAND POST: THE OPERATIONS DIVISION by Ray S. Cline  OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF MILITARY HISTORY DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY WASHINGTON, D. C., 1951, page 4). 

  • (NO SPECIFIC DATE):    At some time during this year the German government establishes the office of the Four Year Plan, with Hermann Goering as Plenipotentiary or head, and the office is given overall control of the German economy.  (Source:  NAZI CONSPIRACY AND AGGRESSION Volume I Office of United States Chief of Counsel For Prosecution of Axis Criminality United States Government Printing Office Washington 1946 Chapter III, page 22).

  • (no specific date):    By about this time Great Britain controls the Iraqi part of the railway which connects the Persian Gulf ports via Baghdad with Mediterranean seaports at Tripoli and with the Bosporus at Istanbul; the oil pipeline network from the oilfields at Kirkuk to Tripoli and to Haifa is also under British control.  (Source:  UNITED STATES ARMY IN WORLD WAR II The Middle East Theater THE PERSIAN GULF AND AID TO RUSSIA by T. H. V ail Motter CENTER OF MILITARY HISTORY UNITED STATES ARMY WASHINGTON, D. C., 1985, PAGE 8). 

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