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The birth of Adolf Hitler
At 6:30 p.m. on the evening of April 20, 1889, he was born in the small Austrian village of Bravura Am Inn just across the border from German Bavaria. -
Adolf Hitler's father dies
In the town of Leonding, Austria, on the bitterly cold morning of Saturday, January 3, 1903, Alois Hitler, 65, went out for a walk, stopping at a favorite inn where he sat down and asked for a glass of wine. He collapsed before the wine was brought to him and died within minutes from a lung hemorrhage. -
Adolf Hitler moves to Vienna
From 1905 on, Hitler lived a bohemian life in Vienna on an orphan's pension and support from his mother. -
Adolf Hitler's mother dies
On January 14, 1907, Adolf Hitler's mother went to see the family doctor about a pain in her chest, so bad it kept her awake at night.
The doctor, Edward Bloch, who was Jewish, examined her and found she had advanced breast cancer. -
Adolf Hitler serves in world war I
Hitler, by all accounts, was an unusual soldier with a sloppy manner and nonmilitary bearing. But he was also eager for action and always ready to volunteer for dangerous assignments even after many narrow escapes from death. -
Adolf Hitler joins German workers party
Corporal Adolf Hitler was ordered in September 1919 to investigate a small group in Munich known as the German Workers' Party. The use of the term 'workers' attracted the attention of the German Army which was now involved in crushing Marxist uprisings. -
Nazi party formed
Adolf Hitler never held a regular job and aside from his time in World War One, led a lazy lifestyle, from his brooding teenage days in Linz through years spent in idleness and poverty in Vienna. -
Adolf Hitler declared leader of the Nazi party
By early 1921, Adolf Hitler was becoming highly effective at speaking in front of ever larger crowds. -
Adolf Hitler goes on trial for treason
The trial of Adolf Hitler for high treason after the Beer Hall Putsch was not the end of Hitler's political career as many had expected. -
Adolf Hitler released from prison
A few days before Christmas, 1924, Adolf Hitler emerged a free man after nine months in prison, having learned from his mistakes.