Timeline Sunday 13 March 1938

Events on Sunday 13 March 1938 3

• 1857 – 1938 Clarence Darrow (1857-1938) Died 13 March 1938, aged 80 Darrow was an American defence lawyer and civil libertarian. He was famous for the Leopold and Loeb case and the Scopes "Monkey" Trial.
• 1938 Trial of the Twenty-One The third Moscow show trial Nikolai Bukharin, Alexei Rykov, Genrikh Yagoda and eighteen other defendants were tried on invented charges of treason and conspiracy. Almost all were sentenced to death and shot. It was the last of the great Moscow show trials.
• 1938 Anschluss Nazi Germany annexes Austria German troops crossed into Austria on 12 March and the country was declared part of the German Reich the next day. Hitler entered Vienna to cheering crowds, and Austrian Jews immediately faced public humiliation and persecution.