Hitler

Main Dates in the Rise of the Nazi Party

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    Main Dates in the Rise of the Nazi Party

  • Adolf Hitler joins the German Worker's Party

  • National Socialist German Workers Party poblishes its first programme

  • The Sturm Abteilung (SA) is formed

  • Adolf Hitler attemtpts Beer Hall Putsch

  • Adolf Hitler leaves Landsburg Prison

  • The Nazi Party wins 24 seats in the Reichstag.

  • The Schutz Staffeinel (SS) is formed

  • The Nazi Party holds its first Nuremberg Rally.

  • The Nazi Party wins 14 seats in the Reichstag.

  • The Nazi Party has a membership of 178,000.

  • The Nazi Party wins 107 seats in the Reichstag

  • Unemployment in Germany reaches nearly 4 million.

  • Paul von Hindenburg defeats Adolf Hitler in presidential elections.

  • In Prussia the Nazi Party becomes the largest single party in the state parliament.

  • The Nazi Party wins 230 seats in the Reichstag

  • Adolf Hitler refuses to serve under Franz von Papen as vice chancellor of Germany.

  • Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany.

  • The Nazi Party fails to win an overall majority in the Reichstag

  • The first Nazi concentration camp is formed at Dachau.

  • Adolf Hitler increases the number of Nazis in his government.

  • Paul von Hindenburg dies and Adolf Hitler becomes president as well as chancellor.

  • Adolf Hitler replaces Werner von Blomberg as commander of the German Army.

  • Adolf Hitler orders the release of imprisoned Austrian Nazis.

  • Adolf Hitler orders the German Army into Austria.

  • Adolf Hitler dismisses Hjalmar Schacht as president of the Reichsbank.

  • The German Army invades Denmark and Norway.

  • Adolf Hitler orders the German forces in France and Belgium to halt their advance.

  • The German Army advances on Moscow.

  • Adolf Hitler commits suicide.