Adolf Hitler

By Keith Howell

  • Birth Adolf Hitler

  • His brother dies

  • Death of his father

  • He was rejected from Vienna School of Fine Arts

  • Death of His mother

  • Hilter Visits Great Britain

    Hitler visits his half brother, Alois Jr, who is living in Liverpool. Hitler is fascinated by Britain's industrial strengh and wants to keep living there, at one point renting an appartment of his own. But with only a few words of English, Hitler fails to get a job and is forced to return to Vienna.

  • Munich

    Hitler moves to the Bavarian capital of Munich, Germany, to avoid enlistment in the Austrian Army. The Austrian authorities demand he joins up in 1914, but Hitler fails the physical and is allowed to return to Munich.

  • Hitler joins German Army

    Hitler joins a Bavarian regiment of the German Army after World War I breaks out. He serves in Belgium and France as a private. Hitler wins several awards for bravery including the Iron Cross First Class for saving his unit from being mistakenly shelled from behind by German artillery.

  • Hitler suffers a serious thigh wound

    This was one of the bloodiest battle of the war and it left over one million dead. Hitler is sent back to Munich to recover and this is when he clips his moustache into its familiar form

  • Hitler re - joins his unit

    Hitler volunteers to go back to the front and lives through rat-infested trenches and gas attacks.

  • Hitler gets blinded

    Hitler is blinded in a British clorine gas attack near Ypres soon before the end of the war. He is dismayed when Germany surrenders on November 11 with the Treaty of Versailles.
    The treaty imposes harsh sanctions on Germany and Hitler, along with other nationalists, sees it as a "stab in the back" by influential German Jews and Marxists.

  • Hitler enter politics

    Back in Munich, Hitler becomes an army informer "weeding out" fellow soldiers who had supported Marxist uprisings in Munich earlier that year. Hitler discovers his talent for public speaking in several outbursts against the Jews at political meetings. By September Hitler is an army corpral investigating a group called the German Workers' Party. He is impressed with the group's anti-Semetic, nationalistic doctrine and joins up, becoming the seventh memeber of the party's committee.

  • Hitler becomes a popular public speaker

    Hitler becomes a popular public speaker noted for his passionate tirades against the Treaty of Versailles, the Jews, Marxists and anyone he doesn’t like.
    Maladjusted ex-soldiers swell the party's ranks. Hitler becomes the party's propaganda officer and in a speech on February 24 outlines it's "Twenty Five Points". This political manifesto demands the union of all Germans into a greater German Reich, a rejection of the Treaty of Versailles and decrees that no Jew be considered a German. Hitler r

  • Der Führer

    Hitler is voted Führer (leader) of the Nazi Party after a vote of 543 for him and only one against.

  • Putsch

    Hitler attempts to sieze power in a coup in Munich known as the Beer Hall Putsch. Hitler and Nazi troops take the leaders of the Bavarian government hostage during a meeting at a beer hall.
    Hitler proclaims a national revolution but support for the idea fizzles overnight and the next day the Nazis march on the center of the city.
    A firefight breaks out with the police and sixteen Nazis and three police are killed.
    Hitler narrowly escapes serious injury and is arrested. He is put on trial for

  • Hitler is released from prison

    after serving a little over a year of his sentence. Having learned from the mistakes of the Beer Hall Putsch, Hitler sets about gaining power by legal means rather than through force. He then reorganizes the Nazi Party forming the Schutzstaffel or SS as part of the stormtrooper army or SA. Also formed are the Hitler Youth for boys as well as groups for girls and women within the Nazi Party.

  • Suicide

    Hitler’s niece Geli, who has moved with him back to Munich, becomes increasingly depressed and isolated. The couple have many arguments and Hitler eventually confines her to the apartment when he is away. Around this time Hitler starts seeing another young woman, Eva Braun.
    Geli commits suicide in the apartment by shoting herself through the heart with his own pistol on September 18. Hitler is devastated.