* 1945 – More than 7, 000 die when the German refugee ship Goya is sunk by a Soviet submarine torpedo.

After the sinking of the RMS Lusitania by a German submarine in May 1915, Lieutenant-Commander Godfrey Herbert, commanding officer of Baralong, was visited by two officers of the Admiralty's Secret Service branch at the naval base at Queenstown, Ireland.

Disputed facts mostly centre on the number of German sailors who escaped the sinking submarine, to be killed later.

* 1917 – World War I: is the first American destroyer to be sunk by enemy action when it is torpedoed by German submarine.

The first submarine casualty to a destroyer was the German, rammed by on 29 October 1914.

German declaration of unrestricted submarine warfare in early 1917 was designed to strangle the British ; it failed because of the use of a trans-Atlantic convoy system.

Anticipating what the world would be like in the year 2000, the book is interesting both for its hits ( trains and cars resulting in the dispersion of population from cities to suburbs ; moral restrictions declining as men and women seek greater sexual freedom ; the defeat of German militarism, and the existence of a European Union ) and its misses ( he did not expect successful aircraft before 1950, and averred that " my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocate its crew and founder at sea ").

There is even a theory that Hitler ordered a research journey for such an opening in Antarctica, based on a speech of Admiral Dönitz in front of a German submarine in 1944, when he claimed " The German submarine fleet is proud of having built an invisible fortification for the Führer, anywhere in the world.

By World War II, however, the practice was so widespread that during the Nuremberg trials, the charges against German Admiral Karl Dönitz for ordering unrestricted submarine warfare were dropped, notwithstanding that the activity constituted a clear violation of the Second London Naval Treaty of 1936.

* 1908 – Günther Prien, German World War II submarine captain ( d. 1941 )

During the war, Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft produced 84 U-boats for the German navy, as well as the Deutschland submarine freighter, intended to ship raw material to Germany despite the blockade.

Despite their ultimate importance, the German navy declined to take up the cause of another experiment, the submarine, until 1904.

U-19 was twice the size of the first German submarine, had five times the range at 7, 600 sm cruising at 8 knots, or 15 knots maximum.

On 10 February 1945, the German torpedo-boat T-196 brought about 300 survivors of the, which had been sunk by Soviet submarine S-13 to Kolberg.

Additionally a German submarine blockade of Liberia caused trade with Britain, France and the U. S. to decrease to negligible amounts.

This event affected the operations of the German fleet, whose commanders were ordered ( the " Laconia Order ") by Admiral Karl Dönitz to stop trying to rescue civilian survivors, ushering in the subsequent unrestricted submarine warfare for the German Navy ( Admiral Nimitz testified at Admiral Dönitz's trial that the US had practiced unrestricted warfare from day one ).

This incident led to German Admiral Dönitz issuing the Triton Null signal on 17 September 1942, which came to be known as the " Laconia Order "; the signal forbade submarine commanders from rescuing survivors from torpedoed ships.

* 1940 – World War II: The German submarine U-9 sinks the French coastal submarine Doris near Den Helder.

* 1941 – World War II: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy.

* 1915 – World War I: German submarine sinks RMS Lusitania, killing 1, 198 people including 128 Americans.

U-28 may refer to one of the following German submarines:

* German submarine U-28 ( S177 ), a Type 206 submarine of the Bundesmarine that was launched in 1974 and scrapped in 1996

* German submarine U-28, one of several vessels

* 1869 – Hans Poelzig, German architect, painter, and set designer ( d. 1936 )

German volunteers first used armour in live field conditions during the Spanish Civil War of 1936.

* 1936 – Wilhelm Gustloff, German Nazi party leader ( b. 1895 )

Beginning on 20 April 1934, it was under the administration of SS national leader, Heinrich Himmler who in 1936 was appointed Chief of German Police ( Chef der Deutschen Polizei ) by Hitler.

On 17 June 1936 Hitler appointed Himmler as Chief of all German police and decreed the unification of all police forces.

In 1936 German troops marched into the demilitarised Rhineland.

Frick acquiesced, and on 17 June 1936 Hitler appointed Himmler as Chief of German Police and decreed the unification of all police forces.

* A Study on Authority ( 1936 )-originally written in German ISBN 978-1-84467-209-7

* 1936 – Horst Jankowski, German pianist ( d. 1998 )

* 1855 – Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist ( d. 1936 )

Including Journey's End ( 1930 ), Whale directed a dozen films for Universal Studios between 1930 and 1936, developing a style characterized by the influence of German Expressionism and a highly mobile camera.

The Anti-Comintern Pact of November 1936 marked an important change in German foreign policy.

* Leopold von Hoesch: German Ambassador to France ( 1923 – 1932 ) and the United Kingdom ( 1932 – 1936 )

All were shot in Moscow between 1936 and 1938 on trumped-up charges of being either German or Polish spies.

In 1936 the Junkers Ju 52 was the backbone of the German bomber fleet.

* 1880 – Oswald Spengler, German philosopher ( d. 1936 )

* 1936 – Ingeborg Hallstein, German opera singer

In 1919 he became Lecturer in Medieval history at Strasbourg University, after the German professors were all expelled ; he was called to the Sorbonne in Paris in 1936 as professor of economic history.

The West German Olympic Organizing Committee had encouraged an open and friendly atmosphere in the Olympic Village, to help erase memories of the militaristic image of wartime Germany and, specifically, of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, which had been exploited by Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler for propaganda purposes.

* 1936 – Joachim Bißmeier, German actor

In February 1936, shortly before the purge started in earnest, Bukharin was sent to Paris by Stalin to negotiate the purchase of Marx and Engels archives, held by the German Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) before its dissolution by Hitler.

* 1936 – Gerhard Ertl, German surface chemist, Nobel laureate, 2007.

Oswald Manuel Arnold Gottfried Spengler ( 29 May 1880 – 8 May 1936 ) was a German historian and philosopher whose interests also included mathematics, science, and art.

On 17 June 1936 all police forces throughout Germany were united, following Hitler appointing Himmler as Chief of German Police.