This Week in WWII

1940
Bismark is commissioned. Bismarck was the first of two Bismarck-class battleships built for the German Kriegsmarine.
1945
Bockscar B-29 piloted by Charles W. Sweeney drops Atomic Bomb, Fat Man, on Nagasaki, Japan.
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1934 —
Adolf Hitler becomes Fuhrer of Germany. He was chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and dictator of Nazi Germany (as Führer und Reichskanzler) from 1934 to 1945. Hitler was at the center of the founding of Nazism, the start of World War II, and the Holocaust.
1936 —
The 1936 Olympic Games begin in Berlin. Hitler saw the Games as an opportunity to promote his government and ideals of racial supremacy, and did not want Jews or Blacks to be allowed to participate in the Games.

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