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In July of 1932, the Nazi party won an impressive 230 seats in the 608 seat Reichstag. Hitler, the leader of the Nazi party, then demanded that the aging president Paul von Hindenburg appoint him the chancellor of Germany.
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Adolf Hitler refuses to serve under Franz von Papen as vice chancellor of Germany.
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The Reichstag catches fire.
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The first Nazi concentration camp is formed at Dachau.
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Adolf Hitler announces an increase in the size of the German Army.
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Paul von Hindenburg dies and Adolf Hitler becomes president as well as chancellor.
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Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles by introducing military conscription.
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The German Army enters the Rhineland.
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Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini agree to form a military alliance.
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France decides to extend the Maginot Line along the border with Germany.
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Pro-German riots take place in the Sudetenland area of Czechoslovakia.
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Adolf Hitler replaces Werner von Blomberg as commander of the German Army.
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Adolf Hitler orders the release of imprisoned Austrian Nazis.
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The German Army invades Czechoslovakia.
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Germany formally annexes western Poland into the German Reich.
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The German Army enters Paris.
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The Royal Air Force bomb Hamburg in Germany.
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Erwin Rommel mounts his first attack in the Desert War.
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Adolf Hitler sacks Heinrich von Brauchitsch as commander in chief of the German Army.
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The German Army defeated at El Alamein.
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Erich von Manstein and the 4th Panzer Army begin the attempt to relieve the 6th Army.
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British and US military aircraft begin round-the-clock bombing of Nazi Germany.
