Adolf Hitler Timeline

Adolf Hitler was born

Apr 20, 1889

Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, Austria. He was the fourth of six children to Alois Hitler and Klara Pölzl.

Adolf Hitler

Period: Apr 20, 1889 to May 5, 1945

Hitlers younger brother Edmund dies at age 2

Feb 2, 1900

brother dies of measels Adolf was 10 years old.It deeply affected Hitler

Hitler Realschule in Linz a technical high school

Sep 1, 1900

this is when he met Ludwig Wittgenstein

Hitler's father died

Dec 3, 1903

Hitler did poorly in school, hoping that once his father saw the little progress he was making at the technical school he would let him devote himself to his dream.

Hitler's mother dies

Dec 21, 1907

Hitler moved to Munich

May 1, 1913

Hitler received the final part of his father's estate in May 1913 and moved to Munich

received the wound badge

May 18, 1918

Hitler served as a runner on the Western Front in France and Belgium in the Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment 16.During the Battle of the Somme in October 1916, he was wounded either in the groin area or the left thigh by a shell that had exploded in the dispatch runners' dugout

awarded the iron cross first class in ww1

Aug 4, 1918

he received the Iron Cross, First Class,A decoration rarely awarded to one of Hitler's rank. Hitler's post at regimental headquarters, where he had frequent interactions with senior officers, may have helped him receive this decoration

Hitler's book Mein Kampf is published

Jul 18, 1925

Hitler began the dictation of the book while imprisoned for what he considered to be "political crimes" . Mein Kampf is a book by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. It's an autobiography with an exposition of Hitler's political ideology. Mein Kampf in English means My Struggle or My Battle

Hitler met his wife Eva Braun

Oct 1, 1929

Braun met Hitler in Munich when she was 17 years old, while she was working as an assistant and model for his personal photographer, and began seeing him often about two years later.

Hitler sworn in as Chancellor of Germany

Jan 30, 1933

Hindenburg agreed to appoint Hitler as chancellor after two parliamentary elections

Holocaust begins, nazis instigate their first act against German Jews

Apr 1, 1933

Holocaust was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi Germany, led by Adolf Hitler,

Nazi party was declared the only legal party in Germany

Jul 14, 1933

By the end of June, the other parties had been dissolved, and with the help of the SA, Hitler pressured his nominal coalition partner, Hugenberg, into resigning. On 14 July 1933 Hitler's Nazi Party was declared the only legal political party in Germany

Hitler was made supreme commander of the military

Aug 2, 1934

Hitler formally named Fuhrer

Aug 2, 1934

On 2 August 1934 President von Hindenburg died. The previous day, the cabinet had enacted a law to take effect upon Hindenburg's death which abolished the office of president and combined its powers with those of the chancellor. Hitler thus became head of state as well as head of government, and was formally named as Führer

Hitler presented two laws known as the Nuremberg Laws

Sep 15, 1935

A person with one or two Jewish grandparents was a Mischling, a crossbreed, of "mixed blood" .The laws deprived Jews of German citizenship and prohibited marriage between Jews and other Germans.The laws also included a ban on sexual intercourse between people defined as "Jews" and non-Jewish Germans and prevented "Jews" from participating in German civic life

Non-agression pact was signed between Hitler and Stalin

Jan 1, 1939

This agreement stated that the two countries - Germany and the Soviet Union - would not attack each other.

Heinrich Himmler ordered the construction of Auschwitz

Apr 27, 1940

It was the largest of the German concentration camps

3 million German troops attack the soviet union

Jun 22, 1941

three million German troops attacked the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa

Hitler declares war on the United States

Dec 11, 1941

On 7 December 1941 Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Four days later, Hitler formally declared war against the United States

German forces were defeated in the second battle of El Alamein

Apr 23, 1942

It ended Axis hopes of occupying Egypt, taking control of the Suez Canal, and gaining access to the Middle Eastern oil fields.

The battle of stalingrad ended in the destruction of the German troops

Apr 23, 1943

The battle of Stalingrad was one of the largest battles in human history. It lasted for 199 days.

Hitler celebrates his 56th birthday in a bunker below the reich chancellery

Apr 20, 1944

On 20 April, his 56th birthday, Hitler made his last trip from the bunker to the surface

The Western armies landed in northern France

Jun 6, 1944

The landing caused the German Army Group G to abandon southern France

Soviet forces attack Berlin

Apr 1, 1945

The Battle in Berlin lasted from 20 April 1945 until the morning of 2 May.

Italian dictater Benito Mussolini died

Apr 28, 1945

Mussolini and his mistress along with another Fascist were executed in a field by Communist Italians and hanged upside down. The Allies ordered the bodies cut down.

Adolf Hitler committed suicide by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in his Führerbunker in Berlin.[1][2][3] His wife Eva (née Braun), committed suicide with him by ingesting cyanide

Apr 30, 1945

Hitler shot himself.

• It is estimated that 11 million people were killed during the Holocaust. Six million of these were Jews.

May 1, 1945