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Summer Solstice, Turner Gymnastics Badge
Plauen - June 1933
1933 Sonnwend Plauen Gymnastics - Turner Meet: German June Summer Solstice National Holiday, celebrated in Plauen with a gymnastics competition. Not for sale, also comes in a silvered version.
Private Collection
The Twelve National Holidays of the Third Reich
- 30 Jan - Machergreifung
(Day of the Seizure of Power)
Adolf Hitler was elected Kanzler 30 Jan 1933.
- 24 Feb - Parteigründungsfeier
(Foundation Day of the NSDAP)
The NSDAP received its name 1 Apr 1920 but 24 Feb 1920 was chosen as the Foundation day.
- 16 March - Heldengedenktag
(National Heroes Day of Mourning)
Germans who had been killed in action was remembered this day.
- 20 April - Führergeburtstag (Leader's Birthday -
Adolf Hitler was born 20 Apr 1889)
- 1 May - Nationaler Feiertag des Deutschen Volkes
(National Labor Day) The Nazis "stole" this traditionally socialist holiday.
- May, second sunday - Muttertag (Mother's Day)
- Summer - Sommersonnenwende
(Day of the Summer Solstice in June)
- September - Reichsparteitage
(Reich Party Rally)
Huge Nazi rallies were held every year in Nürnberg.
- Autumn - Erntedanktag (Harvest Thanksgiving Day)
The harvest and the German farmer was celebrated.
- 9 November - Gedenktag für die Gefallenen der Bewegung
(Anniversary Remembrance of the Movements Fallen)
The martyrs of the 1923 Beer Hall Putch was celebrated.
- Winter - Wintersonnenwende
(Day of the Winter Solstice in Dec)
- 24 Dec - Volks-Weinacht
(Peoples Christmas Eve) An attempt to replace Dec 25th, the official Christian Christmas.
A total of fourteen air raids on Plauen were carried out by the British RAF Bomber Command and the 8th Air Force of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) during World War II. In the period from September 12, 1944 to 10/11. April 1945 dropped 1,689 heavy, four-engine bombers and 50 high-speed bombers 4,925 tons of bombs on the city. The goals were traffic facilities, industrial plants and the residential area. More than 75% of the buildings in Plauen were destroyed.