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January 30, 1933 - Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany (in hopes that his parternship with the president would strengthen Germany's government and their relationship with citizens)
March 23, 1933 - Parliaments gives legislative power to Hitler
June 30, 1934 - The Night of Long Knives - 80 of Hitler's political opponents were arrested and shot without a trial
August 2, 1934 - President Von Hindenburg dies and the presidential power is handed over to Hitler. This is where the term Führer comes into play.
September 15, 1935 - The Nuremburg Race Laws were decreed.
February 10, 1936 - The Gestapo was placed above the law.
March 12, 1938 - Germany announced a "union" with Austria (the annexing of Austria)
THE SOUND OF MUSIC takes place in Austria, early in 1938.
SPECIFIC LOCATIONS
Nonnberg Abbey
Mountainside near the Abbey
The Office of the Mother Abbess
A Corridor in the Abbey
The Living Room of the Trapp Villa
Outside the Trapp Villa
Maria's Bedroom
The Terrace of the Trapp Villa
A Hallway in the Trapp Villa
A Cloister Overlooking the Chapel
The Concert Hall
The Garden of Nonnberg Alley
A young, orphaned Nonnberg Abbey postulant whose impetuous behavior calls her fitness for the veil into question, Maria is dispatched by the Mother Abbess on a probationary tour of duty as governess to the seven children of the widowed Captain Georg von Trapp. Initially cowed by the Captain's autocratic manner, she holds her own with him, wins over his children, restores music to his house, and discovers, to her distress, that he has fallen in love with her and she with him. Retreating to the Abbey, she is sent back to the von Trapp villa by the Mother Abbess, in order to find "how God wants you to spend your love." That turns out to be as a wife to the captain, a second mother to his offspring, and a pathfinder who helps lead them out of the peril looming over them.
A decorated naval hero of the First World War, adamantly opposed to the Nazis and their designs on his beloved Austria. Traumatized by the loss of his wife, he has distanced himself from his home and the music which once animated it. The arrival of the postulant Maria Rainer as a governess breaks open his shell, bringing him back to his children and music. Marrying her, he gains a stalwart, resourceful partner in his daring decision to flee with his family from the dictates of the Third Reich, to freedom.
Spiritual head of Nonnberg Abbey, mentor to Maria. Her credo: "You have to find the life you were born to live." She shepherds Maria from a mistaken vocation as a nun to a true one as a wife and mother, finally helping her to escape, with her new family, over the mountain where both she and Maria grew up.
A charming, well-connected impresario, he is a confidant of the Captain's lover, Elsa Schraeder, and apparently, like her, a moral chameleon. His collaboration with the regime in Berlin threatens his friendship with the Captain, but in the end he risks everything to save the von Trapps.
A chic, attractive Viennese widow, president of her late husband's corporation, now involved in a relationship with Captain von Trapp. Her expectations of marrying the Captain founder on her willingness to accept the Nazis, a moral pliancy that is anathema to him.