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Firts appearance of Hitler
Adolf Hitler joined the DAP, a German party called Nazi Party; he reformed the party and created a paramilitary group, SA, to mainten order at party events. -
Beerhall Putsch
As a the leader of the Nazi Party, Hitler led a failed coup attemp called the Beerhall Putsch. -
Mein Kampf
The book outlines the main ideas that the German regime would carry out during its rule; Hitler reflects what he believes are the twin evils of the world: communism and Judaism and stated that his purpose was to eradicate them from the earth. -
Reichstag fire
An attack carried out by Hitler in all conscience in order to be able to falsely blame the communists and thus take advantage of this attack to suspend individual freedoms, eliminate judicial control over arrests and re-establish the death penalty. -
Opening of the first concentration camps in Dachau
Theodor Eicke was responsible for considering the prisoners as subhuman enemies of the state and for the special treatment given to the Jews, in the form of physically and psychologically devastating punishment; hundreds of illegal and inhuman medical experiments were also carried out. -
Creation of the GESTAPO secret police
It was the official secret police of Nazi Germany, led from 1936 by Reinhard Heydrich until 1942. -
Night of the Long Knives
Between 30th June and 2nd July, many SA members were assassinated by Hitler to eliminated potential rivals. -
Third Reich
Hindenburg died and Hitler became President of the Republic, having all three top positions in the country, it started Hitler's dictatorship. -
Hitler was named Fürhrer
That position was convenient for Hitler and his personality or style, freeing him from the obligation of having to follow any program or commitment that was not convenient at the time, including those proposed by him. -
Nuremberg Laws
These laws prevented intermarriage for "purity"; of blood and excluded Jews from the German city. -
Condor Legion (1936-1939)
t was the name given to the mostly airborne intervention force that the Third Reich sent to help General Franco's forces fight the Spanish Civil War, in which Hitler secretly offered Franco air support for his land army. -
Afrika Korps (1941-1943)
The Deutsches Afrikakorps (DAK) was a German military force sent to North Africa in 1941 to support Italian troops that were being defeated by the British during World War II -
Hitler's suicide
Hitler kills himself by shooting himself in the mouth because the Russians were looking for him and were going to kill him.