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Hitler believes the time is right to stage a coup. Aided by a force of SA brownshirts, the support of WW1 leader Erich Ludendorff, and browbeaten locals, he stages the Beer Hall Putsch. It fails.
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Heinrich Brüning takes charge of Germany via a right-leaning coalition. He wishes to pursue a deflationary policy to counter economic depression.
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Boosted by the rising unemployment rate, the decline of center parties, and a turn to both left and right extremists, the NSDAP wins 18.3 percent of the vote and becomes the second-largest party in the Reichstag.
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The Harzburg Front is formed to try to organize Germany’s right wing into a workable opposition to the government and the left. Hitler joins.
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Hitler comes a strong second in the presidential elections; Hindenburg just misses out on the election on the first ballot.
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Papen offers Hitler the post of vice-chancellor, but Hitler refuses, accepting nothing less than being chancellor.
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Hindenburg defeats Hitler at the second attempt to become president.
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Hindenburg dies. Hitler merges the posts of chancellor and president, becoming the supreme leader of Nazi Germany.
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Hermann Göring, long a leading Nazi and a link between Hitler and the aristocracy, becomes president of the Reichstag and uses his new power to manipulate events.
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