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Hitler
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Fathers death
In the town of Leonding, Austria, on the cold morning of Saturday, January 3, 1903, Alois Hitler, 65, went out for a glass of wine when he arrived and ordered his wine he died before the wine was brought to him.His father's funeral mass in the small church at Leonding was well attended. -
hitler moves to Vienna
Hitler moved to Vienna on a orphans pension with support from his mother. Hitler got his Anti-Semitic beliefs from this time and area which had a larger jewish community. -
Mothers death
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.
the doctor told him she was gravely ill and needed immediate surgery. A few days later, Klara Hitler, 46, was operated on and had one of her breasts removed. But the operation was too late. -
Adolf serves in WW1
Hitler, by all accounts, was an unusual soldier with a sloppy manner and unmilitary bearing.
But he was also eager for action and always ready to volunteer for dangerous assignments even after many narrow escapes from death. He served as a dispatch runner for delivering messages back and fourth -
Nazi party formed
after joining the German Workers' Party in 1919 at age thirty, Hitler immediately began a frenzied effort to make it succeed.
The German Workers' Party consisted mainly of an executive committee which had seven members, including Hitler. To bring in new members Hitler prepared invitations which each committee member gave to friends asking them to attend the party's monthly public meeting, but few came. -
Hitler discharged from Army
Hitler was discharged from the army in March 1920 and with his former superiors' continued encouragement began participating full time in the party's activities. Hitler was becoming highly effective at speaking in front of large crowds. In February, Hitler spoke before a crowd of nearly six thousand in Munich. To publicize the meeting, he sent out two truckloads of party supporters to drive around with swastikas. -
Twenty-Five-Theses speech
Given responsibility for publicity and propaganda, Hitler first succeeded in attracting over a hundred people to a meeting in held October at which he delivered his first speechThe meeting and his oratory were a great success, and subsequentlyhe organized a much larger event for a crowd of nearly two thousand in the Munich Hofbrauhaus. -
HItler gets appointed chancellor of Germany
On the morning of 30 January 1933, in Hindenburg's office, Adolf Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor during what some observers later described as a brief and simple ceremony. -
Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany
After President Hindenburg died on August 2, 1934, Hitler replaced the offices of chancellor and president with a single dictatorial position by declaring himself Führer ("Leader") of a new German Reich – the Third Reich. -
Adolf Hitler Commits Suicide
Hitler takes his own life in fear of getting captured.
