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In October 1918, Hitler was wounded in a mustard gas attack. He was sent to the Pasewalk military hospital. News of the November 11, 1918 armistice, the overthrow of Kaiser Wilhelm II, and the German revolution reached him while he was recovering. Hitler’s disgust and dismay at the armistice and the fall of the German empire would later become an important part of his mythos and ideology.
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When Hitler returned to Munich in late November 1918, Munich was in the midst of political changes. On November 7–8, revolutionaries in Bavaria had overthrown Bavarian King Ludwig III and established a democratic republican government. From November 1918 to February 1919, the leader of the new Bavarian government was socialist Kurt Eisner, who was Jewish.
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Eisner was assassinated in February 1919. His successor Johannes Hoffman was eventually driven out of the city in an attempted Communist takeover. In April–May 1919, the Bavarian Soviet Republic (Bayerische Räterepublik, literally “Bavarian councils republic”), a Communist government, took over the city. With the help of neighboring states and militias, Hoffman’s government suppressed the Bavarian Soviet Republic. An anti-Communist reaction followed, in which hundreds of people were killed.
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Related to his intelligence gathering function, Hitler and two colleagues attended a September 12, 1919, meeting of the German Labor Party (Deutsche Arbeiterpartei--DAP), a völkisch (race-based)-nationalist organization. During the meeting, Hitler denounced a speech favoring Bavarian separatism. Within a month, Hitler had joined the DAP with the number 555. His discharge from the army came through on March 31, 1920.
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The Party Promotes
-National unity based on so-called racial criteria
-Expansion of the nation’s territory
-Revocation of the Treaty of Versailles
-Exclusion of Jews from citizenship and all occupations and professions requiring citizenship
-Halting non-German immigration
A few weeks later, in early March, the DAP changed its name to National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei—NSDAP). -
Due to his speaking abilities, charisma, and tireless energy, Hitler quickly rose into the DAP leadership ranks. He contributed significantly to the development and announcement of a DAP Program on February 20, 1920, at the Munich Hofbräuhaus. Among other aims, the program advocated:
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Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party lead a coalition group in an attempt to overthrow the government of Bavaria and initiate a “national revolution.” This so-called Beer Hall Putsch fails. Hitler and others are arrested for treason. 8-9 of November
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Mein Kampf – Hitler writes about the threat of Jewish Bolshevism in Russia
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Hitler establishes the SS (Schutzstaffel; Protection Squadrons). During the Nazi regime, the SS will become responsible not only for the German police force and the concentration camp system, but also for security, identification of ethnicity, settlement and population policy, and intelligence.
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Hitler loses a run-off election for the German presidency to the elderly incumbent, General Paul von Hindenburg.
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Following the burning of the German parliament building, the Reichstag, by unknown arsonists, the German parliament passes the Law for Rectification of the Distress of Nation and Reich, commonly known as the Enabling Act (Ermächtigungsgesetz). This law allows Hitler, as Chancellor, to initiate and sign legislation into law without obtaining parliamentary consent. The act effectively establishes a dictatorship, under Hitler, in Germany.
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Consolidates power and becomes Führer after the death of President Hindenburg.
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On Hitler’s order, Nazi leaders eliminate the leadership of the SA and kill other political enemies. The murderous purge cements an agreement between the Nazi regime and the German army that consolidates Nazi power and enables Hitler to proclaim himself Führer (leader) of Germany and to claim absolute power.
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Hitler opens the Berlin Olympics. 1936 represents a rare instance in which one nation, Germany, hosted both the winter and summer Olympic Games. Nazi Germany uses the 1936 Olympics for propaganda purposes. The Nazis promote an image of a new, strong, and united Germany while masking the regime’s targeting of Jews and Roma (Gypsies) as well as Germany’s growing militarism.
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The area contained about three million people of German origin and in May 1938 it became known that Hitler and his generals planned to occupy the country.
The Czechoslovak government hoped that Britain and France would come to its assistance in the event of an invasion, but British Prime Minister Chamberlain was intent on averting war. -
German troops march into Austria. Native son Adolf Hitler crosses the Austro-German border at midday at his hometown, Braunau on the Inn. On the following day, the annexation of Austria to the German Reich is announced. On March 15, Hitler enters the Austrian capital Vienna before a cheering crowd of 200,000.
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Hitler meets with the leaders of Britain, France, and Italy at a conference in Munich, Germany, on September 29–30, 1938, in which they agree to the German annexation of the Sudetenland in exchange for a pledge of peace from Germany. Six months later, Hitler moves against the Czechoslovak state.
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On 30 September 1938, Germany, Britain, France and Italy reached a settlement that permitted German annexation (incorporaton of one territory into another) of the Sudetenland in western Czechoslovakia.
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Adolf Hitler signs a secret authorization for a “euthanasia’” program, the systematic killing of patients with mental and physical disabilities who are living in institutional settings in Germany and German-annexed territories. It is the only instance in which Hitler signs an authorization for a program of systematic mass murder.
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In a speech to the German parliament in January 1939, Hitler states that another world war will result in the elimination of Jews from Europe.
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23rd August 1939 – Non-Aggression Pact between Germany-Soviet Union signed – both nations agreed to take parts of Poland
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German and Soviet foreign ministers Ribbentrop and Molotov, respectively, sign a German-Soviet Pact. The main tenet of this agreement is a ten-year non-aggression pact in which each signatory promises not to attack the other.
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Germany overruns Europe. Takes: Poland, Demark, Norway, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands and France. All in one year!
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Prime Minister Churchill (who succeeded from Chamberlain in May of the same year) made it clear that Britain would not negotiate with Hitler.
This launched devastating air attacks on Britain, followed by the landings of German troops.
15,000 British civilians and over 500 airmen died in the Battle of Britain.
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HMT Dunera arrives in Australia carrying rufugees from the German Nazi regime
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At this point in time: US and USSR remain neutral and many allied were now Nazi occupied.
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In 1941, Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, Reinhard Heydrich and other leading German authorities reach the decision to physically annihilate the Jews of Europe.
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4-7 of June
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The German army invades the Soviet Union in "Operation Barbarossa." As opposed to their conquests in western Europe, Hitler and other Nazi leaders see war against the Soviet Union in racial and ideological terms.
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Bombing of Pearl Harbour
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Australia enters a state of war with Japan following the attack on Pearl Harbor and Japan's subsequent military actions in the Pacific.
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Day is random
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There were two raids with 90 bombers with fighter escorts. 243 were killed and there was widespread panic.
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Hitler orders retaliatory measures against the Czech population following the death of Reinhard Heydrich, second-in-command of the SS. The towns of Lidice and Lezaky are destroyed and the inhabitants massacred or deported.
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17th July 1942 – 2nd February 1943 – Battle of Stalingrad – Germany defeated
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January 31–February 2, 1943
After months of fierce fighting and heavy casualties, German forces (numbering now only about 91,000 surviving soldiers) surrender at Stalingrad in a major turning point of World War II and a disaster for Hitler’s long-held goal of defeating the Soviet Union. -
Western Allies take France
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Allied troops successfully land on the Normandy beaches of France, opening a “Second Front” against the Germans and Hitler's regime.
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Hitler survives an assassination attempt coordinated by military and civilian officials. The failure of the attempt and the intended coup which was to follow led to the arrest of some 7,000 and the execution of nearly 5,000 individuals.
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April 20th to May 2nd 1945. Soviets take Germany
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During the night of April 28-29, Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun marry, only hours before they both died by suicide. Braun met Hitler while employed as an assistant to Hitler’s official photographer.
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Soviet forces take Berlin and the Germans surrender
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The International Military Tribunal (IMT) at Nuremberg decides not to try Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, and Joseph Goebbels in absentia. All three had committed suicide before the end of the war. In doing so, the IMT wished to avoid creating the impression that they might still be alive.
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1947: Populate or Perish policy is well underway with the arrival of 32,000 migrants to Australia (over two-thirds of British origin)
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November 1947: First boatload of Migrants from Baltic States arrives in Australia – “Beautiful Balts”
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1949: Construction of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Scheme begins, requiring labour of thousands of migrants before its completion in 1974
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1951: ‘Bring out a Briton’ campaign is launched
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1951: Australia becomes a signatory to the UN Convention relating to the Status of refugees
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1958: Dictation test is abolished as a means of assessing the suitability of migrants wanting to come to Australia
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1966: Migrants are accepted into Australia based on their skills and qualifications rather than their cultural heritage
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1973: Remnants of the White Australia Policy are formally dismantled
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1975: Racial Discrimination Act is passaged; end of Vietnam War and first arrivals of refugees from Vietnam
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1980: By this time, 40,000 Vietnamese refugees and asylum seekers arrive in Australia
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1992: Mandatory detention for refugees arriving in Australia without vias is introduced
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1995: For the first time, Migrants from New Zealander overtake migrants from Britain as largest group arriving in Australia
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September 11, 2001: Terrorist attacks in US prompt xenophobia in Australia
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December 2005: Race riots occur in Cronulla Sydney