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Hitler Believes it is time
Hitler believes the time is right to stage a coup. Aided by a force of SA brownshirts, the support of WW1 leader Erich Ludendorff, and browbeaten locals, he stages the Beer Hall Putsch. It fails. -
Heinrich Brüning takes charge
Heinrich Brüning takes charge of Germany via a right-leaning coalition. He wishes to pursue a deflationary policy to counter economic depression. -
Boosted by the rising unemployment rate
Boosted by the rising unemployment rate, the decline of center parties, and a turn to both left and right extremists, the NSDAP wins 18.3 percent of the vote and becomes the second-largest party in the Reichstag. -
The Harzburg Front is formed
The Harzburg Front is formed to try to organize Germany’s right wing into a workable opposition to the government and the left. Hitler joins. -
Hitler becomes number 2
Hitler comes a strong second in the presidential elections; Hindenburg just misses out on the election on the first ballot. -
Higher Ranks come to Hitler
Papen offers Hitler the post of vice-chancellor, but Hitler refuses, accepting nothing less than being chancellor. -
Hindenburg defeats Hitler
Hindenburg defeats Hitler at the second attempt to become president. -
Hindenburg dies
Hindenburg dies. Hitler merges the posts of chancellor and president, becoming the supreme leader of Nazi Germany. -
Hermann Göring
Hermann Göring, long a leading Nazi and a link between Hitler and the aristocracy, becomes president of the Reichstag and uses his new power to manipulate events.
