Adolf Hitler Biography

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the Nazi Party. He was chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and dictator of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. Hitler was at the centre of Nazi Germany, World War II in Europe, and the Holocaust.

Hitler was a decorated veteran of World War I. He joined the German Workers' Party in 1919, and became leader of the NSDAP in 1921. In 1923, he attempted a coup in Munich to seize power. The failed coup resulted in Hitler's imprisonment, during which time he wrote his memoir, Mein Kampf. After his release in 1924, Hitler gained popular support by attacking the Treaty of Versailles and promoting Pan-Germanism, antisemitism, and anti-communism with charismatic oratory and Nazi propaganda. Hitler frequently denounced international capitalism and communism as being part of a Jewish conspiracy.

Hitler's Nazi Party became the largest elected party in the German Reichstag, leading to his appointment as chancellor in 1933. Source: Wikipedia

Marriages

• 1945-04-29
  Adolf Hitler marries Eva Braun

Adolf Hitler Timeline

• 1916-10-05
  Soldier Adolf Hitler is injured
• 1921-07-29
  Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
• 1921-11-04
  The Sturmabteilung or SA (the "Brown Shirts") is formally formed by Adolf Hitler
• 1922-11-30
  Hitler speaks to 50,000 national-socialists in Munich
• 1923-04-10
  Hitler demands "hatred & more hatred" in Berlin
• 1923-11-08
  Hitler stages unsuccessful "Beer Hall Putsch" in Muenchen (Munich)
• 1923-11-09
  Beer Hall Putsch-Nazis fail to overthrow government, 16 die/Hitler flees
• 1923-11-12
  In Germany, Adolf Hitler is arrested for attempt to sieze power Nov 8
• 1924-02-26
  Trial against Hitler in Munich begins
• 1924-04-01
  Hitler sentenced to 5 years labor but Gen Ludendorff acquitted
• 1924-12-20
  Adolf Hitler freed from jail early
• 1925-02-27
  Hitler's resurrects NSDAP political party in Munich
• 1925-07-18
  Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf (original title was the catchy "Four and a Half Years (of Struggle) Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice")
• 1926-12-10
  2nd part of Hitler's Mein Kampf published
• 1927-03-10
  Bavaria lifts ban on Hitler's speeches
• 1928-09-28
  Prussia forbids speech from Adolf Hitler
• 1932-02-25
  Immigrant Adolf Hitler gets German citizenship
• 1932-03-17
  German police raid Hitler's Nazi headquarter
• 1932-04-10
  Paul von Hindenburg elected 1st German president (Hitler is 2nd)
• 1932-08-13
  Hitler refuses President Von Hindenburg's proposal to become vice-chancellor of Germany
• 1932-11-19
  Shaft & Thyssen demand Hitler become German chancellor
• 1933-01-29
  German president Paul von Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler as chancellor
• 1933-01-30
  Adolf Hitler named German Chancellor, forms government with Von Papen
• 1933-01-31
  Hitler promises parliamentary democracy
• 1933-02-02
  2 days after becoming chancellor, Adolf Hitler dissolves Parliament
• 1933-02-10
  Hitler proclaims end of Marxism
• 1933-02-28
  Hitler disallows German communist party (KPD)
• 1933-03-16
  Hitler names Hjalmar Schacht, president of Bank of Germany
• 1933-03-21
  Hitler, Guring, Prince Ruprecht, Bruning & top army meet in Berlin
• 1933-03-23
  Enabling Act: German Reichstag grants Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers
• 1933-03-28
  German Reichstag confers dictatorial powers on Hitler
• 1933-03-31
  German Republic gives power to Hitler
• 1933-05-02
  In Germany, Adolf Hitler bans trade unions
• 1933-07-20
  Vatican state secretary Pacelli (Pius XII) signs accord with Hitler
• 1933-12-01
  Rudolf Hess & Earnest Rohm become a minister in Hitler government
• 1934-01-30
  Hitler proclamation on German unified states
• 1934-06-14
  Hitler & Benito Mussolini meet in Vienna
• 1934-06-28
  Hitler flies to Essen (Night of Long Knifes)
• 1934-06-30
  "Night of Long Knives" - Hitler stages bloody purge of Nazi party
• 1934-08-02
  Adolf Hitler becomes commander-in-chief of German armed forces
• 1934-08-03
  Adolf Hitler merges the offices of chancellor and president, declaring himself 'Führer ' (leader).
• 1934-10-01
  Adolf Hitler expands German army & navy & creates an air force, violating Treaty of Versailles
• 1935-03-09
  Adolf Hitler announces the creation of a new air force.
• 1935-03-16
  Hitler orders German rearmament, violating Versailles Treaty
• 1936-02-15
  Hitler announce building of Volkswagens (starting slug-bug game)
• 1936-02-26
  Hitler introduces Ferdinand Porsche's "Volkswagen"
• 1936-03-07
  Hitler breaks Treaty of Versailles, sends troops to Rhineland
• 1936-08-01
  Adolf Hitler opens 11th Olympic Games in Berlin
• 1937-11-05
  Hitler informs his military leaders in a secret meeting of his intentions of going to war
• 1938-02-04
  Hitler seizes control of German army & puts Nazi in key posts
• 1938-02-12
  Austrian chancellor Schuschnigg visits Hitler in Berchtesgaden
• 1938-05-06
  Dutch writer Maurits Dekker sentenced to 50 days for "offending a friendly head of state" (Hitler)
• 1938-09-12
  Adolf Hitler demands self-determination for Sudeten Germans in Czech
• 1938-09-26
  Hitler issues ultimatum to Czech government, demanding Sudenten Land
• 1939-01-30
  Hitler threatens the Jews during his speech to the German Reichstag (parliament)
• 1939-03-15
  Hitler occupies Bohemia & Moravia (Czechoslovakia); Slovakia independent
• 1939-04-28
  Hitler claims German-Polish non-attack treaty still in effect
• 1939-05-23
  Hitler proclaims he wants to move into Poland
• 1939-07-03
  Ernst Heinkel demonstrates 800 kph (500 mph) rocket plane to Hitler
• 1939-09-01
  Hitler orders extermination of mentally ill
• 1939-10-06
  Adolf Hitler denies he intends to go to war against France & Britain
• 1939-10-06
  Hitler announces plans to regulate Jewish problem
• 1939-10-30
  USSR & Germany agree on partitioning Poland, Hitler deports Jews
• 1939-11-08
  Failed assassination attempt on Hitler in Burgerbraukeller, Munich
• 1939-12-21
  Hitler named Adolf Eichmann leader of "Referat IV B"
• 1940-05-24
  Hitler affirms Gen von Rundstedts "Stopbevel"
• 1940-06-15
  France surrenders to Hitler, German troops occupy Paris during WWII
• 1940-06-25
  Adolf Hitler views Eiffel tower & grave of Napoleon in France
• 1940-07-02
  Hitler orders invasion of Britain (Operation Sealion)
• 1940-07-19
  Hitler orders Great Britain to surrender
• 1940-07-22
  Dutch prime minister De Geer meets Hitler seeking peace talks
• 1940-08-17
  Hitler orders total blockade of Great Britain
• 1940-09-03
  Hitler orders invasion in England on Sept 21 (Operation Seelöwe/Sealion)
• 1940-09-04
  Nazi collaborator Mussert puts the fate of Netherlands in Hitler's hands
• 1940-09-11
  Hitler begins operation Seelöwe (Sealion - aborted invasion England)
• 1940-09-23
  Dutch nazi collaborator Mussert's 1st meeting with Hitler
• 1940-10-04
  Adolf Hitler & Benito Mussolini confer at Brenner Pass in Alps
• 1940-10-24
  Hitler meets Marshal Pétain
• 1940-10-28
  Meeting between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in Florence
• 1940-11-19
  Belgian King Leopold III visits Adolf Hitler
• 1941-03-04
  Serbian Prince Paul visits Hitler
• 1941-03-27
  Hitler signs Directive 27 (assault on Yugoslavia)
• 1941-04-12
  Vichy-France's head of government Admiral Dalarn consults with Hitler
• 1941-04-25
  Operation Merkur: Hitler orders conquest of Kreta
• 1941-05-02
  Martin Bormann succeeds Rudolf Hess as Hitler's deputy
• 1941-05-10
  Adolf Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland
• 1941-09-16
  Hitler orders for every dead German 100 Yugoslavians to be killed
• 1941-10-03
  Adolf Hitler says Russia is "broken" & would "never rise again"
• 1941-11-09
  Hitler threatens Clemens August, Graf von Galen, Bishop of Münster
• 1941-12-03
  Hitler views Poltava, Ukraine
• 1941-12-09
  Hitler orders US ships torpedoed
• 1941-12-19
  Hitler takes complete command of German Army
• 1942-02-13
  Hitler's Operation Sealion (invasion of England) cancelled
• 1942-05-17
  Dutch SS vows loyalty to Hitler
• 1942-05-27
  Hitler orders 10,000 Czechs murdered
• 1942-06-09
  Nazis kill all inhabitants of Lidice, which had been implicated in the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the Nazi controller of Bohemia and Moravia, and Hitler's order was given to "teach the Czechs a final lesson of subservience and humility".
• 1942-06-12
  Hitler orders enslavement of Slavic peoples
• 1942-07-03
  Hitler visits Field Marshal Von Bock's headquarters in Ukraine
• 1942-07-23
  Hitler's Directive #45: order to occupy Stalingrad
• 1942-10-18
  Hitler orders captured allied commandos to be killed
• 1942-11-08
  Hitler proclaims fall of Stalingrad from Munich beer hall
• 1942-11-21
  Hitler names fieldmarshal Erich von Manstein commander of the newly-created Army Group Don (Heeresgruppe Don)
• 1942-11-23
  Col-gen Von Paul asks Hitler to surrender
• 1942-12-10
  Hitler names Mussert "leader of Netherland people"
• 1942-12-16
  Hitler orders combat against partisans in Russia & Balkan
• 1942-12-22
  World War II: Adolf Hitler signs the order to develop the V-2 rocket as a weapon.
• 1943-01-13
  Hitler declares "Total War"
• 1943-01-24
  Hitler orders German troops at Stalingrad to fight to the death
• 1943-01-30
  Hitler promotes Friedrich von Paul to Field Marshal
• 1943-02-16
  Sign on Munich facade: "Out with Hitler! Long live freedom!" done by "White Rose" student group, caught on 2/18, beheaded on 2/22
• 1943-02-17
  -19] Hitler visits fieldmarshal von Mansteins hq in Zaporozje
• 1943-03-13
  Failed assassin attempt on Hitler during Smolensk-Rastenburg flight
• 1943-03-21
  Assassination attempt on Hitler fails
• 1943-04-07
  Adolf Hitler & Benito Mussolini met for an Axis conference in Salzburg
• 1943-08-10
  Hitler watches lynching of allied pilots
• 1943-08-16
  Bulgarian Tsar Boris III visits Adolf Hitler
• 1943-09-18
  Hitler orders deportation of Danish Jews (unsuccessful)
• 1944-05-21
  Hitler begins attack on British/US "terror pilots"
• 1944-06-07
  Claus von Stauffenberg meets Hitler
• 1944-06-17
  Hitler secretly meets with von Rundstedt in Marjival Soissons
• 1944-07-20
  Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt led by Germany army officer Claus Von Stauffenberg.
• 1944-07-21
  Field Marshal Günther von Kluge warns Hitler of impending collapse of front in Normandy
• 1944-07-28
  Hitler routes 4 division of South France to Normandy
• 1944-08-22
  Hitler orders Paris to be destroyed [or 23rd]
• 1944-10-15
  The Arrow Cross Party (very similar to Hitler's NSDAP (Nazi party)) takes over the power in Hungary.
• 1945-03-19
  Adolf Hitler issues "Nero Decree" to destroy all German factories

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