Gay Monument Moves Forward As Germany Marks Hitler Rise To Power

But while few public events are planned to mark the anniversary, the lessons of the date are not lost on those whose parents were not even born the day Hitler was appointed.

``I will definitely talk to my students about this date,'' Frank Rudolph, 44, a history teacher at a Berlin high school, said Tuesday. ``It is a very important day in German history, but of course it's not as easily remembered as, for example, Kristallnacht on November 9, because nobody was hurt on January 30.''

The head of the German Teachers Association said many schools had received letters from state governments asking them to mark the date with special sessions in class.

``Definitely the entire period of the Third Reich is taught in more detail than most other historical times,'' said Heinz-Peter Meidinger, who is also the principal of the Robert-Koch-Gymnasium in Deggendorf. ``The only problem we have is that there are so many dates to commemorate in Germany.''