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1889 On this date Adolf Hitler was born.
1889 Born
1920 Adolf Hitler presents his National Socialist program in Munich
.
1920 Adolf Hitler makes first public political speech, in Austria
.
1921 Adolf Hitler becomes Chairman of the Nazi Party
1923 Beer Hall Putsch
: In Munich
, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis
in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government. Police and troops crush the attempt the next day
1924 Adolf Hitler beings dictating his book, ''Mein Kampf'' (or in English, ''My Struggle''), while imprisoned in Bavaria.
1924 Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years in jail
for his participation in the Beer Hall Putsch
. However he was only in jail for nine months.
1925 Adolf Hitler publishes his personal manifesto ''Mein Kampf''.
1932 Adolf Hitler gains German citizenship
prior to elections
1933 Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany
by President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg
.
1933 The ''Reichstag
'' passes the Enabling Act, making Adolf Hitler dictator
of Germany
.
1933 ''Gleichschaltung'': Adolf Hitler bans trade union
s.
1934 Adolf Hitler becomes ''Führer'' of Germany
, becoming head of state as well as Chancellor.
1934 The Wehrmacht
is tricked into swearing allegiance to Adolf Hitler personally.
1935 Adolf Hitler announces German
rearmament in violation of the Versailles Treaty.
1937 World War II
: In the Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring "living space" for the German
people.
1938 Adolf Hitler is Time magazine's "Man of the Year" (as most influential during the course of the year, not as 'best' man of the year)
1938 Adolf Hitler creates the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (High Command of the Armed Forces), giving him direct control of the German military.
1938 Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg of Austria
meets Adolf Hitler at Berchtesgaden and, under threat of invasion, is forced to yield to German demands for greater Nazi participation in the Austrian government.
1939 In Munich
, Adolf Hitler narrowly escapes an assassination attempt while celebrating the 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch
.
1940 World War II
: Axis powers
- Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini
meet at Brenner Pass in the Alps
and agree to form an alliance against France
and the United Kingdom
.
1940 World War II: German
leader Adolf Hitler surveys newly defeated Paris
in now occupied France
.
1940 World War II
: Adolf Hitler makes peace appeal to Britain
in an address to the Reichstag
. Lord Halifax, British foreign minister, flatly rejects peace terms in a broadcast reply on July 22.
1940 First release of ''The Great Dictator'', directed by Charlie Chaplin
who is cast as fascist dictator
Adenoid Hynkel, clearly modeled on Führer Adolf Hitler of Nazi Germany
.
1940 World War II: German
leader Adolf Hitler and Italian
Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano meet to discuss Benito Mussolini
's disastrous invasion of Greece
.
1941 Charles Lindbergh
testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States
negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler.
1941 Holocaust: Under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi
official Hermann Göring
, orders SS general Reinhard Heydrich
to "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired final solution of the Jewish question."
1941 Adolf Hitler orders a temporary halt to Nazi Germany's
systematic euthanasia
of mentally ill and handicapped due to protests. However, graduates of the T-4 Euthanasia Program were then transferred to concentration camps, where they continued in their trade.
1942 World War II
The last German air-raid on Liverpool. Ironicly this raid destroyed the home of William Patrick Hitler, Adolf Hitler's nephew. After his house was destroyed William Hitler went to the USA and joined the navy to fight against his uncle.
1942 World War II
: Battle of Stalingrad
- The situation for the German
attackers of Stalingrad seems desperate during the Soviet
counter-attack Operation Uranus and General Friedrich Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German Sixth Army is surrounded.
1944 Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt. See Claus von Stauffenberg
1944 German
Field Marshal
Erwin Rommel
committed suicide rather than face execution for allegedly conspiring against Adolf Hitler.
1945 Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called ''Führerbunker''
1945 World War II: Adolf Hitler orders that all industries, military installations, shops, transportation facilities and communications facilities in Germany
be destroyed.
1945 Adolf Hitler and his wife of one day, Eva Braun
, commit suicide as Red Army
approaches Führerbunker in Berlin
. Karl Dönitz
succeeds Hitler as President of Germany. Joseph Goebbels
succeeds Hitler as Chancellor of Germany
.
1945 Died
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