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He is born in Braunau Inn, Austria
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His brother, Edmund Hitler, dies and Adolf becomes vey sad
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His father, Alois Hitler, dies of lung hemorrhage at an inn wheere he had gone to drink his morning glass of wine
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Hitler uses a lung ailment as an excuse to take time off from school and eventually drops out altogether
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Hitler tries and fails the admission exam at the Vienna School of Fine Arts
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Hitler runs out of money and moves into a homeless shelter in Vienna, Austria (Austria-Hungary at that time)
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His mother, Klara Hitler, dies of breast cancer
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By 1910, he had settled into a house for poor working men on Meldemannstraße
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Hitler visits his half brother, Alois Jr, who is living in Liverpool, UK
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Adolf Hitler moved to Munich, Germany
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Served in World War I as a runner for the 16th Barvarian reserve Regiment
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World War 1 begins
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Hitler suffers a serious thigh wound at the Battle of the Somme
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He rejoins his regiment after he finished healing
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Hitler is blinded in a British clorine gas attack near Ypres soon before the end of the war
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He is made a Verbindungmann (poliece spy), meets Dietrich Eckart who teches him how to dress and speak influently
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Hitler becomes an army informer "weeding out" fellow soldiers who had supported Marxist uprisings in Munich earlier that year. Hitler discovers his talent for public speaking in several outbursts against the Jews at political meetings. He is later appointed leader of the Nazi Party
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Hitler stays quiet and plans for power
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Adolf runs for president of Germany against the hugely repected Paul von Hindenburg
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The Nazis stage a fire at the German parliament in Berlin, the Reichstag. Hitler claims that communists are behind the fire.
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The Nazis' "Enabling Act" passes in the Reichstag. This Act was officially called the "Law for Removing the Distress of the People and the Reich" and effectively ended democracy, handing the dictatorship to Hitler.
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The President Paul von Hindenburg dies. Hitler announces a new "Führer law" to be the only one voted on in an election
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Hitler openly announces that Germany is ignoring the Treaty of Versailles and rearming
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He tries unsuccessfully to forge an alliance with the United Kingdom. Hitler opens the Summer Olympic Games in Berlin
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Hitler signs the “Munich Agreement” with the leaders of England, France and Italy which allows hime to openly invade Czechoslovakia
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Hitler is named Time Magazine’s “Man of the Year”, a dubious honor given to someone who “for better or for worse, has done the most to influence the events of the year”.
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Hitler’s 50th birthday featuring the largest military parade in Third Reich history, about 50,000 troops took part
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Soviet leader Joseph Stalin accepts a Nazi Soviet pact of non-aggression called the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.
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Germany invades Poland, starting World War 2
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Hitler’s forces move west, invading the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France
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Hitler signs the Tripartite Treaty with the leaders of Japan and Italy, which become known as the Axis Powers
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Hitler breaks the Nazi Soviet Pact and invades Russia
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Hitler declares war on the United States following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
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Hitler’s 6th Army is destroyed in the Battle of Stalingrad
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D-Day landings in France. Some German leaders now see defeat as inevitable and start to plot against Hitler
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A failed assassination of Hitler takes place at his Wolf’s Lair headquarters in modern day Poland
