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Adolf Hitler became the leader of this minor political organization in 1919, encouraging national pride, militarism, and a dedication to Volk and racially "pure" Germany. Hitler used antisemitic sentiments to criticize Jews. He altered the name of the party to the National Socialist German Workers' Party, or the Nazi Party for short. The Nazi Party had over 3,000 members by the end of 1920. Hitler was elected as the party's official leader a year later.
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With his oratorical skills and use of propaganda Hitler became leader of the Nazi party. -
Gestapo, German for secret state police, is the political police of Nazi Germany. The Gestapo suppressed Nazi opposition in Germany and its conquered areas, and was responsible for the arrest of Jews throughout Europe for deportation to extermination camps in collaboration with the Sicherheitdinest (Security Service). -
Antisemitic and racist measures passed by Nazi Germany on September 15, 1935, during a special assembly of the Reichstag held during the Nazi Party's annual Numberg Rally. Which prohibited Jewish-German marriages and employed German females under the age of 45 in Jewish households: and the Reich Citizenship Law, which stated that only people of German or kindred ancestry could become Reich citizens. -
On November 9 and 10, 1938, a wave of violent anti-Jewish pogroms occurred. This wave of violence swept across Germany, Austria, and parts of Sudetenland.
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The Iron Guard began to attack members of the Romanian Jewish community after besieging the premier in his palace. The pogrom lasted three days and killed 125 Jews. -
Hitler swallowed a cyanide pill and shot himself. Although nobody really knows why Hitler killed himself, it is rumored that he didn't want to be dishonored because one of the Nazi principles was death before dishonor.