Editing 1932 (section)

===December===
{{Main|December 1932}}
* [[December 1]] – Germany returns to the [[World Disarmament Conference]] after the others powers agree to accept ''gleichberechtigung'' {{Clarify|date=December 2014}} "in principle". Henceforward, it is clear that Germany will be allowed to rearm beyond the limits imposed by the [[Treaty of Versailles]]. 
* [[December 3]] – Hindenburg names [[Kurt von Schleicher]] as German chancellor after he ousts Papen. Papen is deeply angry about how his former friend Schleicher has brought him down and decides that he will do anything to get back into power.
* [[December 4]] – Chancellor Schleicher meets with [[Gregor Strasser]] and offers to appoint him Vice-Chancellor and ''Reich'' Commissioner for Prussia out of the hope that if faced with a split in the NSDAP, Hitler will support his government.<ref>{{cite book|last=Turner|first=Henry Ashby|title=Hitler's Thirty Days to Power|location=New York|publisher=Addison-Wesley|year=1996|isbn=0201328003|page=25}}</ref> 
* [[December 5]] – At a secret meeting of the Nazi leaders, Strasser urges Hitler to drop his "all or nothing" strategy and accept Schleicher's offer to have the Nazis serve in his cabinet.<ref name="auto3">{{cite book|last=Turner|first=Henry Ashby|title=Hitler's Thirty Days to Power|location=New York|publisher=Addison-Wesley|year=1996|isbn=0201328003|page=26}}</ref> Hitler gives a dramatic speech saying that Schleicher's offer is not acceptable and he will stick to his "all or nothing" strategy whatever the consequences might be and wins the Nazi leadership over to his viewpoint.<ref name="auto3"/>
* [[December 8]] – [[Gregor Strasser]] resigns as the chief of the NSDAP's organizational department in protest against Hitler's "all or nothing" strategy.<ref>{{cite book|last=Turner|first=Henry Ashby|title=Hitler's Thirty Days to Power|location=New York|publisher=Addison-Wesley|year=1996|isbn=0201328003|pages=27–28}}</ref>
* [[December 10]] – The [[Emu War]] in Australia ends in failure.
* [[December 12]] – Japan and the [[Soviet Union]] reform their diplomatic connections.{{clarify|date=December 2016}}
* [[December 19]] – [[BBC World Service]] begins broadcasting as the BBC Empire Service using a [[shortwave radio]] facility at its [[Daventry transmitting station]] in England.
* [[December 24]] – [[1932 Moweaqua Coal Mine disaster]]
* [[December 25]]
** The 7.6 {{M|s}} [[1932 Changma earthquake|Changma earthquake]] shakes the [[Gansu|Gansu Province]] in China with a maximum [[Mercalli intensity scale|Mercalli intensity]] of X (''Extreme''). Two-hundred and seventy-five people are killed.
** [[IG Farben]] files a [[patent]] application in Germany for the medical application of the first [[Sulfonamide (medicine)|sulfonamide]] oral [[antibiotic]], which will be marketed as [[Prontosil]], following [[Gerhard Domagk]]'s laboratory demonstration of its properties as an antibiotic.<ref>{{cite book|last=Lesch|first=J. E.|title=The First Miracle Drugs: How the Sulfa Drugs Transformed Medicine|chapter=Prontosil|pages=51–61|location=New York|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2007|isbn=978-0-19-518775-5}}</ref>
** King [[George V]] delivers the first [[Royal Christmas Message]]<ref name=CBH>{{cite book|last=Palmer|first=Alan|last2=Palmer |first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=375–376|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}</ref> on the new BBC Empire Service radio from [[Sandringham House]]; the text has been written by [[Rudyard Kipling]].
* [[December 27]] – Internal passports are introduced in the Soviet Union.
* [[December 28]] – The Cologne banker [[Kurt Baron von Schröder|Kurt von Schröder]]-who is a close friend of Papen and a NSDAP member-meets with [[Adolf Hitler]] to tell him that Papen wants to set up a meeting to discuss how they can work together. Papen wants Nazi support to return to the Chancellorship while Hitler wants Papen to convince Hindenburg to appoint him Chancellor. Hitler agrees to meet Papen on January 3, 1933.