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Adolf was born
On the evening of April 20, 1889, he was born in the small Austrian village of Braunau Am Inn just across the border from Germany -
Anti-semitic beliefs
He was rejected twice by the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, citing "unfitness for painting", and was told his abilities lay instead in the field of architecture. -
Adolf serves in World War 1
Hitler was a dispatch runner, taking messages back and forth from the command staff in the rear to the fighting units near the battlefield. During lulls in the fighting he would take out his watercolors and paint the landscapes of war. -
Adolf Hitler joins German Workers' Party
Corporal Adolf Hitler was ordered in September 1919 to investigate a small group in Munich known as the German Workers' Party. -
Adolf Hitler Delivers 'Twenty-Five Theses' Speech
He succeeded in attracting over a hundred people to a meeting in held October at which he delivered his first speech to a large audience. -
Hitler is discharged from army
Hitler was discharged from the army and goes full time with the German Workers Party -
Nazi party formed
He never held a regular job and aside from his time in World War One, led a lazy lifestyle, from his brooding teenage days in Linz through years spent in idleness and poverty in Vienna. -
Hitler steps up
Hitler was becoming highly effective at speaking in front of ever larger crowds and gets named leader of the Nazi Party -
Hilter goes to trial for treason
The trial of Adolf Hitler for high treason after the Beer Hall Putsch was not the end of Hitler's political career as many had expected. -
Runs for president
President Hindenburg reluctantly agreed to run again and announced his candidacy for re-election -
Adolf Hitler is Granted German Citizenship
Hitler intended to run against the aging President Paul von Hindenburg in the scheduled presidential elections. -
First Concentration camp opened
Hitler opened his first concentation camp called Dachau concentration camp -
Hitler announces nuremberg laws
The following month two measures were announced at the annual Party Rally in Nuremberg, becoming known as the Nuremberg Laws. -
Hitler establishes buchenwald concentration camp
It is a Nazi concentration camp established in Thuringia, Germany and one of the largest and first camps on German soil. -
Adolf Hitler orders "Plan Z"
Plan Z was the name given to the planned re-equipment and expansion of the Nazi German Navy -
Adolf Hitler Approves the Manstein Plan
Hitler approves but it was not activated until the 10th May, when the Luftwaffe bombed Dutch and Belgian airfields and the German Army captured Moerdijk and Rotterdam. -
Adolfs final solution
Which occured in the Wannsee Conference was a meeting of senior officials of the Nazi German regime, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on 20 January 1942. -
Hitler agrees to withdraw
While the German offensive had ground to a halt, they still controlled a dangerous salient in the Allied line -
Death
Hitler commits suicide
