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Born
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician -
moved
in 1898 the hitler family moved to linz the capital of upper austria -
vienna
the provincial middle-class boy left home for vienna where he was to remain until 1913 leading a bohemian, vagabond existence -
mother
Htler's mother die December 21, 1907 -
lived in vienna
Hitler lived in vienna between February 1908 and may 1913 -
1909
By the en d of 1909 hitler knew real poverty at his sources of income dried up -
1912
By November 1912 hilter wsas recognized as fuhrer of a moveehich haf 3000 members -
may 1913
in may 1913 hilter left vinna for munich and when war broke out in August 1914 he joined the sixteenth Bavarian infantry regiment -
1918
November 1918 revolution in Germany as well as the military defeat, Hitler, once restored, was convinced that fate had chosen him to rescue a humiliated nation from the shackles of the Versailles Treaty, from Bolsheviks and Jews. -
1921
By November 1921 hilter was recognized as fuhrer of a movement which had 3,000 members -
1932
The year 1932 had seen Hitler's meteoric rise to prominence in Germany, spurred largely by the German people's frustration with dismal economic conditions and the still-festering wounds inflicted by defeat in the Great War and the harsh peace terms of the Versailles treaty. -
1932
In an election held in July 1932, the Nazis won 230 governmental seats; together with the Communists, the next largest party, they made up over half of the Reichstag. -
1933
On this day in 1933, President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler, leader or fÜhrer of the National Socialist German Workers Party (or Nazi Party), as chancellor of Germany. -
1933
He began immediately, ordering a rapid expansion of the state police, the Gestapo, and putting Hermann Goering in charge of a new security force, composed entirely of Nazis and dedicated to stamping out whatever opposition to his party might arise. -
1933
Hitler's emergence as chancellor on January 30, 1933, marked a crucial turning point for Germany and, ultimately, for the world. His plan, embraced by much of the German population, was to do away with politics and make Germany a powerful, unified one-party state.
