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Adolf Hitler is born to Klara and Alois Hitler in the Braunau am Inn, Austria
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The Hitler Family moves from Austria to Germany.
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Adolf's younger brother, Edmund, dies and Adolf becomes introverted and detached.
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Klara allows Adolf to drop out of school after his father, Alois dies. Adolf moves to Vienna and works as a casual laborer and watercolor painter. There he becomes broke and lives in a homeless shelter for several years.
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Adolf is accepted into the German Army at the outbreak of World War I, although he was an Austrian citizen.
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Adolf is wounded in the leg at the Battle of Somme. Eventually, he received the Iron Cross First Class and Black Wound Badge.
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Adolf returned to Munich and continued to work for the military as an intelligence officer. Hitler monitored the activities of the German Workers’ Party (DAP) and developed anti-Semitic, nationalist, and anti-Marxist ideas there.
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The DAP changed its name to the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP). This was when Hitler designed the party banner which featured a swastika in a white circle on a red background.
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The DAP founder, Anton Drexler, invited Hitler to join the DAP.
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Hitler replaced Drexler as NSDAP party chairman due to Hitler gaining notoriety for his vitriolic speeches against the Treaty of Versailles, Marxists, Jews, and rivaled politicians.
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Hitler and the Sturmabteilung (SA), the future Nazi paramilitary organization, stormed a public meeting of about 3,000 people at a beer hall in Munich. After a struggle including about 20 deaths, the “Beer Hall Putsch” failed.
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Hitler is arrested and tried for high treason. He spends a year in prison, which is the location in which he dictated most of the first volume of Mein Kampf, which is German for “My Struggle”.
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Hitler runs against Paul von Hindenberg for presidency. Hitler ended up second in both rounds of the election but established Hitler as a strong force in politics. Hindenburg reluctantly agreed to appoint Hitler as chancellor in order to promote political balance.
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The Holocaust was a genocide in which approximately six million Jews were killed by the Nazi regime, under the command of Adolf Hitler, and its collaborators. Killings took place throughout Nazi Germany and German-occupied territories.
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After achieving full control over the legislative and executive branches of the government, Hitler’s Nazi Part was declared the only legal political party in Germany.
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The demands of SA for more political and military power led to the “Night of the Long Knives”. Ernst Röhm and other SA leaders, as well as a number of Hitler’s political enemies, were rounded up and shot.
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Cabinet enacts a law abolishing the office of president and combined its powers with those of the chancellor. This is the point where Hitler becomes supreme commander/leader of Germany. He immediately begins mobilizing for war and withdraws from the League of Nations.
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Hitler along with several other European leaders sign the Munich Agreement. The agreement ceded the Sudetenland districts to Germany. As a result, Hitler was named Time magazine’s “Man of the Year” in 1938.
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Hitler orders Germany to invade Poland. This causes Britain and France to declare war on Germany.
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Hitler escalates the war by invading Scandinavia, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Belgium. Hitler also ordered bombing raids on the United Kingdom with the only goal of invasion.
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Hitler violates non-aggression pact previously held with Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union by sending 3 million German troops into the Soviet Union.
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Western Allied armies launch Invasion of Normandy which hinders Hitler’s hold on France.
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Adolf Hitler marries his girlfriend, Eva Braun, in a small ceremony in his Berlin bunker.
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Hitler and Braun commit suicide. Their bodies were carried out to the bombed-out garden where they were burned. Berlin fell on May 2, 1945.
