Adolf Hitler

Hitler's birth

Apr 20, 1889

Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, Austro-Hungary (now Austria)

Hitler's younger brother dies at the age of two

Feb 2, 1900

Hitler's brother dies of measels when Hitler was only 10 years old. It deeply affected him.

Hitler Realschule in Linz a technical high school

Sep 1, 1900

The day when Adolf met Ludwig Wittgenstein in Linz a technical high school in 1900s

Hitler's father dies

Dec 3, 1903

There is a theory that Adolf's father died of a "stroke of apoplexy".

Hitler's mother dies

Dec 21, 1907

Adolf's mother died from the toxic medical side-effects of iodoform.

Moving to Munich

1913

Hitler moved to Munich, Germany, in May 1913. He did so to avoid arrest for evading his military service obligation to Habsburg Austria.

Joining the German army

1914

Screened for Austrian military service in February 1914, he was classified as unfit because of inadequate physical vigour; but when World War I broke out, he petitioned Bavarian King Louis III to be allowed to serve, and one day after submitting that request, he was notified that he would be permitted to join the 16th Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment.

First battle

1914

After some eight weeks of training, Hitler was deployed in October 1914 to Belgium, where he participated in the First Battle of Ypres.

Hitler 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

Adolf Hitler 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 for the first time

Oct 1, 1929

Eva met Adolf 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

On January 30, 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.

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 ("storm troopers", also known as "Brownshirts"), 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 presented two laws known as the Nuremberg Laws

Sep 15, 1935

The Nuremberg Laws were antisemitic and racist laws that were enacted in Nazi Germany on 15 September 1935, at a special meeting of the Reichstag convened during the annual Nuremberg Rally of the Nazi Party.

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

Auschwitz was the largest of the German concentration camps.

Three million German troops attack the soviet union

Jun 22, 1941

Three million German troops attacked the Soviet Union in "Operation Barbarossa".

Adolf 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.

Adolf Hitler celebrates his 56th and last 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 dictator 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 adnd died.

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

May 1, 1945