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The End of Weimar(Hitlers Road To Power).
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The Nazi's had 2.6% of the votes with 12 seats.
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Signed in Paris by the US and France, this pact outlawed all future wars of agression. By 1929, sixty-three countries will have joined the pact.
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Signed in 1928, the pact now held more than 60 signatories. This this pact was signed outside the league of nations, however it would not end the war.
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Freiheitsgesetz , or Liberty Law, was a law proposed by Alfred Huegnberg, and Adolf Hitler that renounced all reperations Germany was to pay.
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In the German Federal election in 1930, the Nazi Party won 18.25% of the vote, coming in second to the Social Democratic Party, which recieved 24.53% of the vote. The Nazis increased from 12 to 107, gaining 95 seats in Parliament, and the Social Democrats lost 10.
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Presidential Elections in Germany took place on 10 April 1932. The three main candidates were Paul von Hindenburg, Adolf Hitler, and Ernst Thalmann. Hindenburg became the president of Germany with 49.6% of the votes in the 1. Round and 53.1% in the 2. Round. Hitler was right behind Hindenburg with 30.2% of the votes in the 1. Round and 36.7% in the 2. Round. Thalmann was in 3rd with 13.2% of the votes in the 1. Round and 10.1% in the 2. Round.
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Nazis open Dachau concentration camp near Munich, Buchenwald near Weimar near central Germany, Sachsenhausen near Berlin in northern Germany, and Ravensbrück for women.
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Hitler officially declares the Nazi Party the only political Party in Germany, outlawing any other parties.
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President Hindenburg was the last thing in Hitlers way to get absolute power of Germany. When he died on August 2nd, 1934. There was a vote if the people in Germany would approve of Hitlers absolute power over Germany. 89.9% voted for Hitler and then he made a new law saying that the members of the armed forces and civil servants had to swear loyalty to Hitler.
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After the death of Paul Hindenburg on the 3rd of August, presidential polls on the 19 of August show that hitler has 88% of the vote. There were around 38 million votes for hitler.
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Germany announces the Nuremburg laws by which Jews got geprived of their German citizenship and intermarriage with Jews got forbidden.
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Hitler violates the terms the treaty of Versailes by sending troops across the Rhein and they remilitarized the Rheinland. Hitler took advantage of the crisis in Ethiopia, which diverted the French and English attention from Europe, and defended his actions by claiming the threat of encirclement by France and he Soviet Union through their new alliance system.
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Germany hosted the 1936 Summer Olympics. Hitler used the opportunity to reintegrate Germany into the international community and to showcase the superiority of his "Aryan Race". Hitler also used the Olympics to to show the lack of anti-semitism in Germany.
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German and Italian warplanes flew threw Guernica and bombed it. It was bombed, because it was considered a resistance, so that is why it became a target.
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This was the day that the German Military marched into Austria, and added six million people to the German Reich. The Austrians were not upset about this, they were actually very pleased, because people had been waiting for the unification of both nations for years.
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Between July 6th and July 13th the Évian Conference was initiated by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt to discuss the issue of a increase of numbers of Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi persecution.
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The Munich Agreement was signed on the September 30th, yet dated to have occured on the 29th. Britain, Germany, Italy and France Representatives met in Munich to discuss the future of the Sudetenland. Germany wanted the annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland.
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The Invasion of Poland was also called September Campaign, Poland Campaign and Polenfeldzug and happened one week after the signing of the Molotov-RIbbentrop Pact. Poland was invaded by Nazi-Germany, the USSR and a small Slovak group.
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United States proclaims its neutrality; German troops cross the Vistula River in Poland.
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Nazis invade Denmark and Norway.
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Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands; Winston Churchill becomes British Prime Minister.
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Greece surrenders to the Nazis.
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Germans begin a U-boat offensive along east coast of USA.
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Germans surrender at Stalingrad in the first big defeat of Hitler's armies.
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Assassination attempt by German Army officers against Hitler fails.
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German troops in Italy surrender.
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President Truman officially declares an end to hostilities by Presidential Proclamation.
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The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum opens its first permanent exhibition on the seventh anniversary of the arrival of the Nazi camp's first prisoners.
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A plebiscite in Germany approved the vesting of sole executive power in Adolf Hitler as Fuhrer.
