When Elisabeth Hedwig Klein was born on 14 February 1922, her father, Ernst Carl Klein, was 34 and her mother, Emma Hedwig Jeschke, was 27. She had at least 1 son with Erhard Wesemann. She died on 29 January 2005, in Berlin, Germany, at the age of 82.
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Adolf Hitler appointed chancellor by President Paul von Hindenburg.
The Third Reich rises to power.
On June 7, 1945, the Nuremberg trials begin, and last into the following year. The tribunal tried 24 Nazi officials and put 12 to death by hanging. In total, there were 216 court hearings.
German, Flemish, and Jewish (Ashkenazic); Dutch (also De Klein): from Middle High German, German, Dutch klein ‘small’, or Yiddish kleyn. This was a nickname for a person of small stature, but is also often found as a distinguishing name for a junior male, usually a son, in German names such as Kleinhans and Kleinpeter . The surname of German origin is also found in many other European countries, notably in France (Alsace and Lorraine), Belgium, Poland, Hungary, Czechia, and Slovakia. It is often a German translation of corresponding Slavic surnames, for example Czech and Slovak Malý (see Maly ). Compare Klain , Klien , and Kline .
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