1920
Russian language editions of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion are published in Berlin, New York, Paris and Tokyo (1920-22). (Segel/Levy)
1920
James Weldon Johnson becomes the first black secretary of the NAACP and campaigns for the withdrawal of U.S. troops occupying Haiti.
1920
Hitler meets Dietrich Eckart and Alfred Rosenberg for first time at the home of Houston Stewart Chamberlain in Bayreuth (according to Pauwels). Most other sources state that Hitler's first meeting with Chamberlain was in September 1923.
1920
Philipp Stauff continues operation of the List Society at its
new headquarters in Berlin. From his home at Moltkestrasse 46a in
Berlin-Lichterfelde, Stauff publishes new editions of Guido von List's
Ario-Germanic researches until 1922. (Roots)
1920
General Ludendorff introduces Hitler to Gregor Strasser.
1920
Henry Ford publishes a collection of antisemitic articles from
the Dearborn Independent,many based on The Protocols of the Elders
of Zion, in a book entitled The International Jew: The World's Foresmost
Problem. (Morais)
Half a million copies of the book were put into circulation in
America and it was translated into German, Russian and Spanish. The
International Jews probably did more than any other work to make the Protocols
world-famous. (Cohn)
1920
Poland successfully fights to remain independent from the Soviet Union.
1920
Zinoviev, head of the Comintern, convenes a Congress of Peoples
of the East at Baku in Azerbaijan, urging delegates from various Asian countries
to wage a "holy war" against British imperialism.
1920
Averell Harriman and George Herbert Walker gain control of the
Hamburg-Amerika Line in negotiations with Chief Executive Wilhelm Cuno and the
Line's banker's M.M. Warburg. Cuno will contribute large sums to the Nazis
during the early 1930's.
1920
During 1920, Hitler makes a number of speeches in Austria -- at Innsbruck, Hallein, Saint Polten and Vienna among others. These meeting were probably organized by Walter Riehl's Austrian Nazi party (DNSAP). (Forgotten Nazis)
1920
Under the terms of the Versailles peace conference, Britain is mandated to govern Palestine (Israel), the occupied territories and Jordan.
1920
Herbert Samuel, a former Liberal cabinet minister and prominent British Jew, becomes first High Commissioner of Palestine. The Versalles peace conference mandate requires Britain to implement the Balfour declaration, and stipulates that the civil power should "facilitate Jewish immigration under suitable conditions and shall encourage close settlement by Jews on the land."
1920
The Jewish population of the Holy Land had shrunk to some 60,000 during the last years of Turkish rule. The postwar years saw renewed Jewish immigration to Palestine, with some 35,000 people arriving from Europe and America in the years 1919-23. To the alarm of the existing Arab population, the Zionist movement was now developing teeth, and 1920 saw the foundation of the armed Jewish protection movement, the Haganah.
1920
Admiral Miklos Horthy becomes regent of Hungary.
1920
Chaim Weizmann is named President of the World Zionist Organization.
1920
Hitler declares that "It is our duty to arouse, to whip up, an to incite our people to instinctive repugnance of the Jews." (Atlas)
1920
Mahatma Gandhi begins a campaign of noncooperation against British rule in India.
1920
German jurist, Professor Binding, and psychiatrist, Professor Hoche, publish the book, Die Freigabe der Vernichtung lebensunwerten Lebens (The sanctioning of the destruction of lives unworthy of being lived). Its title is coldly self-explanatory. (Science)
1920 January
Karl Harrer resigns from office in the German DAP (German Workers Party).
1920 January 10
The Treaty of Versailles goes into effect and the League of Nations is officially established with headquarters at Geneva, Switzerland.
1920 January 14
French General Maurice Janin, Commander-in-Chief of
the Allied troops in Siberia, orders the Czecho-Slovak Legion to kidnap Admiral
Aleksandr Kolchak, leader of the anti-Bolshevik resistance, and hand him
over to the Bolsheviks at Irkutsk in exchange for one-third of the bullion of
the Russian Imperial Treasury which is under Kolchak's control. This bullion
will become the first national treasury of the newly created country of
Czechoslovakia. (Sturdza).
1920 January 16
The 18th Amendment (prohibition of alcohol) goes into effect.
1920 January 28
Rudolf Hess is invited to tea at the home of Dr.
Karl Haushofer for the first time. Hess was drawn into Haushofer's lectures on
geo-politics and willingly acted as his unpaid assistant. (Missing Years)
1920 February
Walter Riehl designs a new Austrian DNSAP party flag using a swastika on a white field. (Forgotten Nazis)
1920 February 1
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police comes into existence, replacing Canada's North West Mounted Police force, which had been established in 1873.
