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February 20, 1933

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Headlines from February 20, 1933

GERMANY IS UNEASY ABOUT HINDENBURG; FEARS HE IS WEARY; President Is Reported to Be in Good Health, but Strain on Him Causes Worry. RARELY SEEN IN PUBLIC Receives Few Save Intimate Friends -- Consults His Son and Papen on Politics. NEW GERMANY IS FORMING Nazi Progress Toward Fascism Goes On Unchecked -- Control of All Publicity Seized. GERMANY IS UNEASY ABOUT HINDENBURG

By Frederick T. Birchall.wireless To the New York Times.by Frederick T. Birchall

Strain on Hindenburg causes worry; Nazi progress unchecked with all publicity mediums in Nazi control

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Notable Deaths

Takiji Kobayashi

1933Takiji Kobayashi, Japanese writer (born 1903)[†]

Takiji Kobayashi was a Japanese writer of proletarian literature. He is best known for his short novel Kani Kōsen, or Crab Cannery Ship, published in 1929. It tells the story of the hard life of cannery workers, fishermen and seamen on board a cannery ship and the beginning of their revolt against the company and its managers. Kobayashi died due to violent torture after being arrested by the Special Higher Police two years later, at the age of 29.

Historical Events

United States Congress

1933The U.S. Congress approves the Blaine Act to repeal federal Prohibition in the United States, sending the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution to state ratifying conventions for approval.[†]

The United States Congress is the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States. It is a bicameral legislature, including a lower body, the U.S. House of Representatives, and an upper body, the U.S. Senate. They both meet in the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.

Adolf Hitler

1933Adolf Hitler secretly meets with German industrialists to arrange for financing of the Nazi Party's upcoming election campaign.[†]

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Germany during the Nazi period from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934. His invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 marked the outbreak of the Second World War. Throughout his leadership in the ensuing conflict, he was closely involved in the direction of German military operations and the perpetration of the Holocaust—the genocide of about six million Jews and millions of other victims.