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Hitler joined the German Workers' Party and assumed its control, renaming it the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP)
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Economic losses pushed the middle class towards the rightest parties which were hostile to the republic.
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Hitler tried to seize power through an armed uprising in southern Germany. The attempt failed, but the Nazis gained national prominence.
Hitler was sentenced to prison. -
In prison Hitler wrote an autobiographical account of his movement and its ideology. The main ideas were: extreme German nationalism, anti-Semitism, anti-communism, Social Darwinism, the right of superior nations to Lebensraum and the right of "superior" individuals to take authority over the masses.
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The Nazi Party's membership had grown to 55.000.
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Short recovery from inflation.
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Paul von Hindenburg, a military hero of WWI, was elected President of the newborn Weimar Republic.
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Hitler understood that the Nazis needed to acquire power by constitutional means, and this implied the formation of a mass political party.
After his release from prison, Hitler reorganized the Nazi Party which membership had grown to 178.000 by 1929. -
Unemployment increased to nearly 4.4 million people by December 1930.
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The Nazi party had 800.000 members (mainly from the youth) and was the largest party in the Reichstag.
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The right-wing elites of Germany began to see Hitler as the man that would save Germany from a communist takeover, so President Hindenburg allowed Hitler to become chancellor.
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A fire broke out in the Reichstag building, supposedly set by the Communists.
President Hindenburg gave the government emergency powers: this meant enabling the Nazis to arrest and imprison anyone without redress. -
It empowered the government to dispense with constitutional forms for four years while it issued laws to deal with Germany's problems.
Hitler became a dictator appointed by the parliament. -
It was the murdering of almost 200 people by Hitler. They were SA members and their commander, Ernst Röhm, that got the distances from Hitler and that then started opposing to his despotic regime.
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Hindenburg died. The office of president was abolished and Hitler becomes the sole ruler of Germany.
Public officials and soldiers are required to take a personal oath of loyalty to Hitler as the "Fuhrer". -
The Nazi party embraced Hitler's anti-Semitic policies. It announced new racial laws which excluded German Jews from German citizenship, and essentially separated Jews from the Germans politically, socially and legally.
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A low-ranking secretary was killed by a Polish Jew in the German embassy in Paris. This one became the excuse to lead to a destructive rampage against Jews in Germany: synagogues were burned, 7000 Jewish businesses were destroyed and 100 Jews were killed.
Finally, Jews were encouraged to emigrate from Germany.
