1931

The Hoover Moratorium was not intended to “help” Germany, as Hoover had never been “pro-German”. The Moratorium on Germany’s war debts was necessary so that Germany would have funds for rearming. In 1931, the truly forward-looking...

1932

The Tuskegee Syphilis Study begins. 200 black men diagnosed with syphilis are never told of their illness, are denied treatment, and instead are used as human guinea pigs in order to follow the progression and symptoms of the disease. They all subsequently die from...

1933

In his book Aggression, Otto Lehmann-Russbeldt tells us that “Hitler was invited to a meeting at the Schroder Bank in Berlin on January 4, 1933. The leading industrialists and bankers of Germany tided Hitler over his financial difficulties and enabled him to...

1934

Hoover attacks FDR’s New Deal policies in The Challenge to Liberty Congress passes the Securities and Exchange Act. In China, Mao Zedong and his followers begin ‘The Long March.’ The British government classifies Physicist Leo Szilard’s atomic...

1935

The Pellagra Incident. After millions of individuals die from Pellagra over a span of two decades, the U.S. Public Health Service finally acts to stem the disease. The director of the agency admits it had known for at least 20 years that Pellagra is caused by a niacin...

1936

John Maynard Keynes publishes The General Theory of Economics. So-called “Macroeconomics” is born. The Olympic Games are held in Berlin. African American track and field star Jesse Owens wins gold medals. A UFO crashed near the city of Freiburg, according...