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Adolf Hitler joined this small political party in 1919 and rose to leadership . He encouraged national pride, militarism, and a commitment to the Volk and a racially "pure" Germany. Hitler condemned the Jews, exploiting antisemitic feelings. He changed the name of the party to the National Socialist German Workers' Party, called for short, the Nazi Party . By the end of 1920, the Nazi Party had about 3,000 members. A year later Hitler became its official leader. -
Adolf Hitler's attempt at an armed overthrow of local authorities in Munich, known as the Beer Hall Putsch , failed miserably. They were were subsequently jailed and charged with high treason. .Hitler had actually gained support for his courage to act. The presiding judges sympathized with Hitler and sentenced him to only five years in prison, with eligibility for early parole. Hitler was released from prison after one year -
While imprisoned Hitler wrote "Mein Kampf". Hitler's book became the ideological base for the Nazi Party's racist beliefs and murderous practices. -
The SA began its first major anti-Jewish action on 13 October 1930 when groups of brownshirts smashed the windows of Jewish-owned stores at Potsdamer Platz. -
In 1933 Hitler was officially elected as the Chancellor of Germany -
antisemitic and racist laws that were enacted in Nazi Germany on 15 September 1935, at a special meeting of the Reichstag convened during the annual Nuremberg Rally of the Nazi Party. Which forbade marriages between Jews and Germans and the employment of German females under 45 in Jewish households; and the Reich Citizenship Law, which declared that only those of German or related blood were eligible to be Reich citizens -
Wave of violent anti-Jewish pogroms which took place on November 9 and 10, 1938. This wave of violence took place throughout Germany, annexed Austria, and in areas of the Sudetenland