In 1938, the German chemist Otto Hahn, a student of Rutherford, directed neutrons onto uranium atoms expecting to get transuranium elements.

* 1938 – Otto Rehhagel, German footballer and coach

* 1938 – Christian Müller, German footballer

As the German Army invaded Austria in 1938, he was sent to the concentration camps of Dachau and Buchenwald.

) in 1938 ; the German Mauser 98 rifles went from 740 mm ( 29 in.

* 1938 – Adolf Hitler institutes the Cross of Honor of the German Mother

* 1938 – Heino, German folk singer

In September 1944, after German forces left, legal power was briefly restored as Otto Tief formed a new government in accordance with the 1938 constitution.

* Kathrine Taylor's Address Unknown ( 1938 ) was an anti-Nazi novel in which the final letter is returned as " Address Unknown ", indicating the disappearance of the German character.

In December 1938, the German chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann sent a manuscript to Naturwissenschaften reporting they had detected the element barium after bombarding uranium with neutrons ; simultaneously, they communicated these results to Lise Meitner.

On 12 March 1938, German troops marched into Austria, where an attempted Nazi coup had been unsuccessful in 1934.

At the Munich Conference of September 1938, Hitler, the Italian leader Benito Mussolini, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and French Prime Minister Édouard Daladier agreed upon the cession of Sudeten territory to the German Reich by Czechoslovakia.

After annexing the Sudetenland border country of Czechoslovakia ( October 1938 ), and taking over the rest of the Czech lands as a protectorate ( March 1939 ), the German Reich and the Soviet Union invaded Poland on first September 1939 predominantly as part of the Wehrmacht operation codenamed Fall Weiss.

In 1938, as part of his preparations for war, Hitler ended the German alliance with China, and entered into an agreement with the more modern Japan.

In November 1938, Goebbels got the chance to take decisive action against the Jews for which he had been waiting when a Jewish youth, Herschel Grynszpan, shot a German diplomat in Paris, Ernst vom Rath, in revenge for the deportation of his family to Poland and the persecution of German Jews generally.

* 1870 – Ernst Barlach, German sculptor ( d. 1938 )

J. Edgar Hoover was born on New Year's Day 1895 in Washington, D. C., to Anna Marie ( née Scheitlin ; 1860 – 1938 ), who was of German Swiss descent, and Dick Naylor Hoover, Sr. ( 1856 – 1921 ), of English and German ancestry.

The first arrests of German agents were made in 1938, and continued throughout World War II.

* 1938 – Götz George, German actor

Herbert von Dirksen, who was German Ambassador in London from 1938 – 1939, described his predecessor, Ribbentrop, as " an unwholesome, half-comical figure ".

Ribbentrop was instrumental in February 1938 in persuading Hitler to recognize the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo and to renounce German claims upon her former colonies in the Pacific, which were now held by Japan.

By April 1938, Ribbentrop had ended all German arms shipments to China and had all of the German Army officers serving with the Kuomintang government of Chiang Kai-shek recalled ( with the threat that the families of the officers in China would be sent to concentration camps if the officers did not return to Germany immediately ).

In February 1992, and with amendments in January 1995, the Riigikogu renewed Estonia's 1938 citizenship law, which also provides equal civil protection to resident aliens.

In 1938, the German government revoked his citizenship, so he applied for Norwegian citizenship.

In 1938, Bonanno left the country, then re-entered legally at Detroit so that he could apply for citizenship.

In March 1938, Poland had passed a law depriving Polish citizens who had lived continuously abroad for more than five years of their citizenship: therefore effectively becoming a stateless person he continued to live in Paris illegally.

At the time of the Anschluss in 1938, Walter was at a recording session in Paris ; France offered Walter citizenship, which he accepted.

Romy Schneider ( 23 September 1938 – 29 May 1982 ) was an Austrian-born German film actress who also held French citizenship.

She founded the National Council of American Indians in 1926 to lobby for the rights of Native Americans to American citizenship, on which she served as president until her death in 1938.

Though the bill granted Native Americans citizenship it did not grant them the right to vote and Zitkala-Ša continued to work for civil rights and better access to health care and education for Native Americans up until her death in 1938.

Sir Michael Terence Wogan, KBE, DL ( born 3 August 1938 ), also known as Terry Wogan, is an Irish radio and television broadcaster who holds dual Irish and British citizenship.

; 1938, August 17: The Nazi regime forced Jewish Germans and the stateless Jews with Austrian citizenship to adopt additional middle names ( mostly Israel or Sarah, few other derogatory names considered " Jewish " were alternatively possible ) to be used at any occasion such as signatures, visit cards, addresses, firms etc.

; 1938, October: Jewish Germans had to turn in their passports to get them stamped in a black J, Jewish Austrians had been denied German citizenship and their Austrian passports had turned void.

On January 12, 1938 his government stripped Romanian Jews of their citizenship.

In 1938, he was among the 330 that signed the antisemitic Manifesto of Race ( Italian: Manifesto della razza ) – culminating in laws that stripped the Italian Jews of Italian citizenship and with it any position in the government or professions which many previous had.

In 1938, Adolf Hitler asked William to relinquish his British citizenship in exchange for a high-ranking job.

An appeal to Hitler to regain citizenship, which was backed by a number of scientists from the University of Greifswald was successful-Bernheim was assigned " temporary citizenship " on 12 January 1938, thus avoiding deportation in 1940.

In 1938, Singer applied for British citizenship, listing as references Keynes, William Beveridge, William Temple and the vice-chancellor of Manchester University.

In 1938, with the participation of leading indigenous activists like Douglas Nicholls, the Victorian Aborigines Advancement League organised a protest " Day of Mourning " to mark the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the First Fleet of British in Australia and launched its campaign for full citizenship rights for all Aborigines.

In 1938 the promulgation of Racial Laws stripped Italian Jews of all their civil rights and ordered the expulsion of all Jews who had received Italian citizenship after 1919.

Before doing so, the two married in December 1927 — US citizenship would save her life in Moscow in 1938.

In 1938 she gave up her American citizenship and in 1939 she resigned from her committee work.

The first Girls State was conducted in 1938 and since 1948 has been a regular part of the Auxiliary's better citizenship programs.

In 1933, deprived of his German citizenship by the Nazi regime, he left Germany, emigrating to the United States in 1938 after a period of residence in England.