Hitler's Rise to Power

  • Regiment

    Regiment

    Hitler stayed in a hospital for two months before returning to the regiment
  • Weimar Republic

    Weimar Republic

    The Weimar Republic was founded
  • WWI

    WWI

    End of World War I
  • DAP

    DAP

    German Workers' Party was formed
  • Treaty of Versailles

    Treaty of Versailles

    Signing of the Treaty of Versailles
  • The DAP presents their program

    The DAP presents their program

    The German Workers’ party presented their nationalist, antisemitic and anticapitalist program
  • Nazis create the precursor to SA

    Nazis create the precursor to SA

    The DAP’s security troop that would eventually become the Sturmabteilung
  • Hitler rises to power

    Hitler assumes the position of leader in the National Socialist German Workers Party
  • Foundation of the Sturmabteilung (SA)

    Foundation of the Sturmabteilung (SA)

    The NSDAP's troop becomes the Sturmabteilung (SA)
  • Hitler's fame

    Hitler became famous in nationalist circles
  • Hitler's youth

    Hitler's youth

    The Hitler's youth was founded
  • Beer Hall Putsch

    Beer Hall Putsch

    Hitler, Ludendorff and their allies, the blackshirts tried to overthrow the government of Bavaria in an unsuccessful attempt
  • Hitler in Jail

    Hitler and his allies were sent to jail as a result of the Putsch
  • Dawes plan

    Was a plan designed to help Germany to solve their issues with inflation that lasted until 1930
  • Hitler is released from jailed

    After serving only 9 months in prison, Hitler is released
  • The return of the Nazi party

    Hitler relaunches the Nazi party after it was banned
  • The Schutzstaffel (SS) is founded

    The Schutzstaffel (SS) is founded

    Hitler founds the SS, paramilitary wing of the Nazi party
  • President of Germany

    President of Germany

    Paul von Hindenburg is elected president of Germany
  • Mein Kampf

    Mein Kampf

    Hitler publishes his autobiography that he wrote when he was in jail: Mein Kampf ("My Struggle")
  • Young Plan

    Young Plan

    A program for settling Germany's World War I reparations
  • Stock Market Crash

    Stock Market Crash

    The NY stock market crashes, marking the beginning of the Great Depression
  • Ernest Röhm

    Ernest Röhm

    Hitler appointed Ernst Röhm chief of staff of the SA
  • Nazi governors

    Parliaments of the German states were replaced by the Nazi governors
  • Hitler is appointed chancellor

    Hitler is appointed chancellor

    Hitler becomes the Chancellor of Germany
  • Censorship

    Hitler starts censoring the opposition
  • Reichstag Fire

    Reichstag Fire

    It was an arson attack on the Reichstag building, home of the German parliament in Berlin
  • Enabling Act

    Enabling Act

    Hitler proposed the Enabling Law to the Reichstag. This new law gave Hitler the power to rule by decree rather than passing laws through the Reichstag and the president. If passed, the law would establish the conditions needed for dictatorial rule.
  • Gestapo

    Gestapo

    The Nazi secret police, the Gestapo, is founded
  • Ban wave

    Hitler bans all political parties except the Nazi party
  • Night of the long knives

    The Nazi party purged their political enemies
  • Supreme Leader

    President Hindenburg died and Hitler becomes the supreme leader of Nazi Germany