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Birth
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World War I
Allied advance, Germany realized the war was unwinnable and signed an armistice ending the fighting. -
Nationalists and veterans demonstrated.
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Imperial government
His imperial government collapsed, civil unrest and worker strikes spread across the nation. -
Weimar Republic
Fearing a Communist revolution, major parties joined tu suppress the uprisings establishing the parliamentary Weimar Republic. -
He join/foundation on a party (the Nazi party)
Hitler attends one of the initial meetings of the German Workers' Party (Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, DAP), which under his leadership would later become the Nazi Party. -
After the World War I
Jewish success led to ungrounded accusations of superversion and war profiteering. -
"National Revolution"
Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party lead a coalition group in an attempt to overthrow the Bavarian government and start a "national revolution." The so-called Brewery Coup (Beer Hall Putsch) fails. Hitler and others are arrested for treason. -
Prison
Hitler is convicted of high treason and is sentenced to five years in prison, although he is only serving one year of his sentence. While in prison, he writes My Fight (Mein Kampf). This infamous autobiography proves to be important as it promotes components of Nazism and its racial ideology. The book was published in two volumes in 1925 and 1926, and in 1933, during Hitler's first year of rule, it sold one million copies. -
The Great Depression
In 1929, the Great Depression happened. It led to American banks withdrawing their loans from Germany and the alredy struggling German economy collapsed overnight. -
Elections
Hitler loses the second electoral round for the German presidency against its incumbent, General Paul von Hindenburg. -
Fire on the German parliament and Hitler chancellor
After an unknown group burned down the German parliament or Reichstag building, they create a new law which allows Hitler, as chancellor, to initiate and sign bills to become laws, without obtaining parliamentary consent. The law effectively establishes a dictatorship in Germany, under Hitler. -
Purge and the power of Hitler
On Hitler's orders, the Nazi leaders eliminate the leadership of the stormtroopers (SA) and assassinate other political enemies. This murderous purge strengthens an agreement between the Nazi regime and the German army, which consolidates Nazi power and allows Hitler to declare himself the Führer (leader) of Germany and claim absolute power. -
German troops invade Austria.
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The denounce
Combining anti-semitism with populist resentment, the Nazis denounced both Communism and Capitalism as international Jewish conspiracies to destroy Germany. -
The speech
In a speech to the German parliament in January 1939, Hitler declares that another world war will result in the elimination of the Jews from Europe. His manipulative public speaking launched him into its leadership and drew increasingly larger crowds. -
Death
Hitler commits suicide in an underground bunker in Berlin, before facing capture at the hands of the Soviet forces advancing on that city. Führerbunker, Berlín, Alemanya
