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Events on Monday 22 May 1939 2
1893 – 1939Ernst Toller (1893-1939)Died 22 May 1939, aged 45Toller was a German Expressionist playwright and a leader of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic of 1919. He went into exile after the Nazis came to power. He took his own life in New York.
1939Pact of Steel signedGermany and Italy form a military allianceCiano and Ribbentrop signed the Pact of Friendship and Alliance in Berlin. Each country promised to support the other in any war, whether offensive or defensive. The treaty formalised the Rome–Berlin Axis.