Hitlers rise

  • Hitler Joins German Workers' Party

    Adolf Hitler was ordered in September 1919 to investigate a small group in Munich known as the German Workers' Party. This was the start of hitler's Career in politics and his start to become a powerful leader.
  • Nazi Party is Formed

    Adolf Hitler never held a regular job and aside from his time in World War I, led a lazy lifestyle, from his brooding teenage days in Linz through years spent in idleness and poverty in Vienna. But after joining the German Workers' Party in 1919 at age thirty, Hitler immediately began a frenzied effort to make it succeed.
  • Hitler Named Leader of Nazi Party

    By early 1921, Adolf Hitler was becoming highly effective at speaking in front of ever larger crowds. In February, Hitler spoke before a crowd of nearly six thousand in Munich. To publicize the meeting, he sent out two truckloads of Party supporters to drive around with swastikas, cause a big commotion, and throw out leaflets, the first time this tactic was used by the Nazis. This was the biggest step towards Hitlers rule of Germany
  • Hitler's Book "Mein Kampf"

    This book was a massive influence on what he believed in and influenced the people of Germany to hate anyone that is not the German "master race". This was just another push towards the massive success of Hitler.
  • A New Beginning

    A few days before Christmas 1924, Adolf Hitler emerged a free man after nine months in prison, having learned from his mistakes.
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    Quiet years

    Adolf Hitler described the quiet years between 1926 and 1929 as one of the happiest times of his life.
  • Great Depression Begins

    When the stock market collapsed on Wall Street on Tuesday, October 29, 1929, it sent financial markets worldwide into a tailspin with disastrous effects. This was just another reason for Hitler to get in now if this didn't happen there would probebly be no war.
  • Germans Elect Nazis

    Adolf Hitler and the Nazis waged a modern whirlwind campaign in 1930 unlike anything ever seen in Germany. Hitler traveled the country delivering dozens of major speeches, attending meetings, shaking hands, signing autographs, posing for pictures, and even kissing babies.
  • success and suicide

    The years 1930 and 1931 had been good for Hitler politically. The Nazis were now the second largest political party in Germany. Hitler had become a best-selling author, with Mein Kampf selling over 50,000 copies, bringing him a nice income. The Nazi Party also had fancy new headquarters in Munich called the Brown House.It was in his personal life, however, that Adolf Hitler was about to face a crisis that would shake him to the core.The love of his life was gone, she shot herself in the heart.