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The Holocaust Timeline

1869-1932 | 1933-1940 | 1941-Present

1869

July 3The Reichstag of the North German Federation abolished all restrictions on rights based on religion

1889

April 20Adolf Hitler born

1893

January 12Hermann Göring born

1894

Dreyfuss Affair

1897

October 29Paul Joseph Goebbels born

1899

Action Francaise founded

1900

August 25Friedrich Nietzsche died
October 7Heinrich Himmler born

1903

January 3Alois Hitler (Adolf's father) dies of a lung hemorrhage

1907

OctoberHitler took entrance exam for Vienna Academy of Fine Arts (rejected)

1908

OctoberHitler applies to the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts for the second time (not even admitted to test)
December 21Klara Hitler (Adolf's mother) dies of breast cancer

1909

1909Hitler lives in Vienna at flophouses and hostels for four years

1913

SpringHitler leaves Vienna and moves to Germany

1914

SummerThe Great War (World War I) begins
August 3Hitler petitioned King Ludwig III of Bavaria for permission to join in a Bavarian regiment (granted)
DecemberHitler awarded the Iron Cross, Second Class

1916

October 7Hitler wounded in the leg by a grenade splinter during the Battle of the Somme

1918

August 4Hitler awarded the Iron Cross, First Class
October 13Hitler suffered temporary blindness from a British gas attack
October 28Munity by sailors at the Kiel Naval Base
November 9Weimar Republic proclaimed
November 10Hitler told of end of World War I while in hospital recovering from a British gas attack

1919

Hitler assigned job in the Press and News Bureau of the Political Department of the Army's district command
Hitler posted to a Munich regiment as an educational officer in the Press and Propaganda Office of the District Army Command
January 5The German Workers' party founded
January 15Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg murdered
February 28Scheidemann government resigned; replaced
June 28The German delegates sign the Treaty of Versailles
July 31Weimar Constitution adopted (became law August 11)
SeptemberHitler received orders to look into the German Workers' Party - Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (joins)

1920

February 24German Workers' Party changes its name to National Socialist German Workers' Party - Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP) (Nazi)
March 12-17Kapp Putsch
SummerHitler came up with the design for the Nazi flag and symbol
SummerHitler organized the Ordnertruppe

1921

SummerHitler takes dictatorial control over the Nazi's
October 5Ordnertruppe officially named Sturmabteilung (SA)

1922

June 24Foreign Minister Walter Rathenau murdered (shot)

1923

January 11Ruhr occupied by French and Belgian forces because German was behind on reparations
November 9Beer Hall Putsch
November 11Hitler arrested

1924

February 26Hitler's trial for treason begins
April 1Hitler sentenced to five years in prison in Landsberg fortress;
Writes Mein Kampf
December 20Hitler released from prison

1925

February 28President Ebert died
JulyFrench troops completed their evacuation out of the Ruhr

1926

SeptemberGermany entered the League of Nations

1927

March 10End of the ban on Hitler speaking

1929

October 3Gustav Stresemann died
October 24"Black Tuesday" - the stock market crash on Wall Street; the beginning of the Great Depression

1930

June 30Last French troops removed from Germany
July 16Chancellor Brüning invoked Article 48
DecemberThe release of the movie Im Westen nichts Neues (All's Quiet on the Western Front), based on the book by Erich Maria Remarque, was followed by riots led by the Nazis and then banned

1932

April 10Hindenburg reelected President
June 16Hindenburg revoked the ban on the SA and the SS

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