On 5 April 1938, Socialist minister of defence Indalecio Prieto
quits in protest at the level of Soviet influence over the
Spanish Republican Army.
T2
Torpedo boat
Launched 7 April 1938
Adolf
Hitler arrived in Vienna on 9 April 1938, in the recently
annexed Austria region of Germany to gather support for the
plebiscite of the following day. Adolf
Hitler held a speech inside the Rathaus
Z14
Friedirch Ihn Destroyer
Commissioned 9 April 1938
On 10 April 1938, At the Reichstag elections were held in
Germany including recently annexed Austria on 10 April 1938.
They were the final elections to the Reichstag during National
Socialists rule and took the form of a single-question referendum
asking whether voters approved of a single National Socialists
Party list for the 813 member Reichstag as well as the recent
annexation of Austria the Anschluss. Turnout in the election
was officially 99.5% with 98.9% voting yes. In the case of
Austria, Adolf
Hitler's native soil, 99.71% of an electorate of 4,484,475
officially went to the ballots, with a positive tally of 99.73%.
Karl Renner, the most famous Social Democrat of the First
Republic, announced his support for the Anschluss and appealed
to all Austrians to vote in favour of it on 10 April 1938.
On 15 April 1938, The Nationalists reach the Mediterranean
at Vinaròs, dividing the Republican zone in two.
T4
Torpedo boat
Launched 15 April 1938
On 19 April 1938, The first of four pre-production
Messerschmitt
Bf 110B-01 fighters powered by two
Junkers
Jumo 210Ga engines took to the air, despite the misgiving
of senior Luftwaffe officers who had been overruled by Hermann
Göring.
Adolf
Hitler summoned Wilhelm
Keitel on 21 April 1938, to begin the discussion of turning
Case Green into an actual operation against Czechoslovakia.
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