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Hitlers Birth
Hitler is born in Braunau Am Inn, Austria. His parents, Alois and Klara, come from poor peasant families. -
Hitler's Mothers death
Klara Hitler dies of cancer. The loss of his mother affects Hitler deeply and it is said that he has a photo of her in his pocket when he dies. -
Hitler moves to Vienna
At the age of 17, Hitler moves to Vienna, the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. To attaend to a art school and was rejected twice
This led him to hate Austro-Hungarian -
Munich
Hitler moves to the Bavarian capital of Munich, Germany, to avoid enlistment in the Austrian Army. The Austrian authorities demand he joins up in 1914, but Hitler fails the physical and is allowed to return to Munich. -
Military Service
After ignoring his army orders in 1909 because of his hate for Austria and later being rejected by the Austrian army for being too weak, Hitler volunteers for Germany. With a war happening, medical examinations were not a strict and Hitler is accepted.
Hitler rises through the ranks quickly -
War
Hitler joins a Bavarian regiment of the German Army after World War I breaks out. He serves in Belgium and France as a private -
Wounded
Hitler suffers a serious thigh wound at the Battle of the Somme. This was one of the bloodiest battle of the war and it left over one million dead -
Rejoining the battle
Hitler volunteers to go back to the front and lives through rat-infested trenches and gas attacks. -
Blinded
Hitler is blinded in a British clorine gas attack near Ypres soon before the end of the war -
Hitler is the new Leader
Hitler wins an election and becomes the leader of new political party, nicknamed Nazi. The party's official name is National Socialist German Workers Party and it believes that equality is only for Germans, not Jews or immigrants. -
The Jewish Holocaust begins
The Nazis, led by Hitler, begin to systematically eliminate Jews from Eastern Europe. At least six million Jews will be killed, many in brutal concentration camps -
War against the U.S
Four days after Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, Hitler declares war against the U.S. Germany had no agreement with Japan, but Hitler likes the fact that he is now the center of World War II, the biggest war the world has ever seen -
Hitler survives an assassination attempt
Hitler escapes serious injury when a bomb explodes at his headquarters in Berlin. It is the third assassination attempt against Hitler. A senior officer is blamed for planting the bomb. -
Hitlters decision
Hitler decides that since Germany has lost the war, the country does not deserve to survive. He orders the destruction of the railroads, highways, and other important features of German industry, but the order is not obeyed. -
Hitleres Death
Probably trying to avoid being captured by Soviet troops, Hitler kills himself. He commits suicide by shooting himself in the head while biting down on a poisonous cyanide capsule.