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Hitler joins the army
Hitler joins the army of Germany in the first world war for a sence of belonging and purpose and was known for his noble actions and his near death experiences in the war but avoiding death. His hatred of Jews started climbing more and more when he started blaming them for having a anti-war sentiment. This is important because it's the start of his path that leads him down the very violent road he will soon go down. -
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Hitler Joins GWP
Hitler attended the meeting of the German Workers party on September 12th 1919. Someone said something he dissaproved in the meeting and it set him off, he rambled on about it impresing the others wanting him for the gift of the "gab". He recieved a postcard asking him to join the party, and two days later he made the decision to join. This is important because it was the start of his first political job and is where his carrer started. -
Nazi Party Is Formed
The GWP held meetings to listen to Hitler's speeches to try and get more people to favour in their name and join them. Hitler had a astonishing voice and many people were impressed by it, the crowd started of small and gradualy escalated to more and more people. They made a flag to represent this new party called the swastica, this flag was meant to be powerful and meaningful. This was important because the more people Hitler was recruiting the stronger the party was becomming. -
Hitler Becomes Nazi Party Leader
Adolf was starting to become very good with speaking in front of crowds. People started revolting against him in the party as the leader and counteracted this by resigning. This made the Nazi party would end because they needed him and he would return on certain conditions making him gain more power than ever. This is important because Hitler being the party leader could control the members and tell them how the party was going to be run. -
Hitler Starts Campaining
When the German economy crashed and people started to loose jobs and were desperate for a solution. Hitler took advantage of this opportunity by telling the people what they wanted to hear. On last measures Germany called for a new election to help their country and the Nazi's and Hitler began their campaining. This is important because Hitler started to use propoganda to get more followers and voters for his party. -
German's Elect Nazi's
Adolf was in his campaining mode making speeches, meeting, and even in millions of newspapers of how he is the right political leader for Germany and how he will do all the things the people need. He recieved many votes and moved from the last to second largest political leader in Germany. This is important because more Germans were electing the Nazi party making it more popular and hard to beat. -
Hitler Named Chancellor Of Germany
Hitler was finally elected and was named the cancellor of Germany. The people hoped by Adolf being this that Germany would go back to an authoritarian government helping restore it back to what is was like before. Hitler will use his plan of the Reichstag Fire to gain complete ditatorship later in time for complete control over governement. This is important because Hitler was finally given a name in power and had a plan to create full power for himself not too long after. -
The Reichstag Burns
A communist, Marinus van der Lubbe, 24, from Holland was the person to set the Reichtag on fire. After this Hitler took this to his advantage and managed to kick this party out of the election making it a huge gain for Hitler because they were one of his threats. This was a very important time because Hitler banned his most threated party against him and had no competition after this point. -
Hitler Becomes Dictator
The Nazi parties were taking over states of the German goernment by taking out legitimate office holders and replaceing them with Nazi Reich commissioners. The passing of an act gave Hitler all constitutional power making him a dictator, Hitler took the power of the other parties by destroying them and all the people were against him making him the most powerful man in Germany ever. This is important because Hitler was the leader of Germany now and could say and do as he pleased at this point. -
Night Of The Long Knives
Hitler knew if he had to keep dictatorship he had to gain control of the army as well. Hitler and his officers took out the SS officers and gained control of the army which was one giant step making him undefeatable with the whole military that pledged allegiance to him. This was important because without the army on his side he could have easily been defeated and crushed.
