Schicksalstag (literally day of fate) is a label often used for 9 November due to the special importance of this day in German history. The term was occasionally used by historians and journalists since shortly after World War II, but its current widespread use started with the events of 1989 when virtually all German media picked up the term.
There are six major events in German history that are connected to Schicksalstag:
The establishment of the SS in 1925 is sometimes mentioned as having taken place on the Schicksalstag as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schicksalstag
Nov 9, 2006
“A huge new synagogue, Europe’s largest Jewish centre, was opened in the heart of Munich (November 9) to mark the 68th anniversary of Kristallnacht — the Night of Broken Glass — when Nazis went on an anti-Semitic rampage across Germany...”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2446343,00.html
"November 9, 2006 10:00 pm
MUNICH, Germany -- Jews were welcomed back into the heart of Munich on Thursday with a procession of Torah scrolls and the dedication of a new downtown synagogue -- replacing one Adolf Hitler personally ordered destroyed as an "eyesore" in the center of his power base....
Jewish leaders said the ceremony -- on the 68th anniversary of Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass -- was a sign they were back to stay....
"Today we can show the entire world that Hitler did not succeed in annihilating us," said Charlotte Knobloch, Germany's top Jewish leader who was a young girl in Munich the night the Nazis attacked synagogues and Jewish businesses nationwide....
"This synagogue is not just a trial, it's a hope. It's a place of hope, that there will not be a repetition," said Rabbi Israel Singer, of the World Jewish Congress, one of 1,200 guests at the ceremony that followed the procession of silver-topped Torah scrolls through the city's winding cobblestone streets...
Looking out over the crowd of bright blue yarmulkes, Rabbi Israel Lau, a Holocaust survivor from Israel who helped carry the scrolls from the old synagogue, praised the building...
"If only we had such a synagogue in Jerusalem," Lau said...."
http://www.heraldsun.com/tools/printfriendly.cfm?StoryID=786687
( Luke 21,
28: And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
29: And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees;
30: When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.
31: So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand.
32: Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled. )
Maranatha !
P.S. Nov 9, 2006
"Obituary: Markus Wolf
The man who came to epitomise the ruthless world of the East German spy machine during the Cold War, Markus Wolf, has died at his home in Berlin.
Wolf was feared and admired by Western intelligence officials and ran a network of 4,000 spies - many of them working deep inside the West German establishment.
The unmasking of one of his moles, Gunter Guillaume, caused the downfall of Chancellor Willy Brandt.
Born in Germany in 1923, Wolf had a comfortable early childhood. His father was a noted writer and doctor, Friedrich Wolf, who was a communist and a Jew. ...
His death, on the 17th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, will be seen as the end of an era by many."