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| Events |
Date |
| Adolf Hitler joins the German Worker's Party (GWP) |
September, 1919 |
| National Socialist German Workers Party publishes its first programme. |
24th February, 1920 |
| The Sturm Abteilung (SA) is formed. |
October, 1920 |
| Adolf Hitler attempts Beer Hall Putsch. |
9th November, 1923 |
| Adolf Hitler leaves Landsburg Prison. |
20th December, 1924 |
| The Nazi Party wins 24 seats in the Reichstag. |
December, 1924 |
| The Schutz Staffeinel (SS) is formed. |
June, 1925 |
| Max Amann publishes first volume of Mein Kampf. |
July, 1925 |
| The Nazi Party holds its first Nuremberg Rally. |
July, 1927 |
| The Nazi Party wins 14 seats in the Reichstag. |
20th May, 1928 |
| Joseph Goebbels takes over the propaganda unit in the Nazi Party. |
November, 1928 |
| Max Amann publishes second volume of Mein Kampf. |
December, 1928 |
| Over 60,000 members of the Sturm Abteilung attend Nuremberg Rally. |
August, 1929 |
| The Nazi Party has a membership of 178,000. |
December, 1929 |
| Wilhelm Frick becomes the first Nazi to become a minister in a state government. |
23rd January, 1930 |
| The Nazi Party wins 107 seats in the Reichstag |
September, 1930 |
| Unemployment in Germany reaches nearly 4 million. |
December, 1930 |
| Ernst Roehm is appointed Sturm Abteilung chief of staff. |
January, 1931 |
| Paul von Hindenburg defeats Adolf Hitler in presidential elections. |
13th March, 1932 |
| The Sturm Abteilung is banned. |
April, 1932 |
| In Prussia the Nazi Party becomes the largest single party in the state parliament. |
24th April, 1932 |
| Franz von Papen lifts the ban on the Sturm Abteilung |
16th June, 1932 |
| The Nazi Party wins 230 seats in the Reichstag |
31st July, 1932 |
| Adolf Hitler refuses to serve under Franz von Papen as vice chancellor of Germany. |
13th August, 1932 |
| Franz von Papen resigns as chancellor of Germany. |
17th November, 1932 |
| Kurt von Schleicher becomes chancellor of Germany. |
4th December, 1932 |
| Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany. |
30th January, 1933 |
| The Reichstag catches fire. |
27th February, 1933 |
| The Nazi Party fails to win an overall majority in the Reichstag |
5th March, 1933 |
| The first Nazi concentration camp is formed at Dachau. |
20th March, 1933 |
| Reichstag passes the Enabling Bill. |
23rd March, 1933 |
| Adolf Hitler uses the Enabling Bill to exclude communists from local government. |
31st March, 1933 |
| Herman Goering forms the Gestapo from the former Prussian police. |
26th April, 1933 |
| Adolf Hitler increases the number of Nazis in his government. |
2nd June, 1933 |
| Adolf Hitler announces an increase in the size of the German Army. |
16th March, 1934 |
| Heinrich Himmler is appointed assistant chief of the Gestapo. |
4th April, 1934 |
| The Night of the Long Knives results in the purge of the Sturm Abteilung. |
29th June, 1934 |
| Paul von Hindenburg dies and Adolf Hitler becomes president as well as chancellor. |
2nd August, 1934 |
| The German Army enters the Rhineland. |
7th March, 1936 |
| Adolf Hitler introduces a compulsory two-year period of military conscription. |
24th August, 1936 |
| Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini agree to form a military alliance. |
1st November, 1936 |
| Germany and Japan sign an anti-Comintern pact. |
25th November, 1936 |
| France decides to extend the Maginot Line along the border with Germany. |
27th February, 1937 |
| Guernica in Spain is bombed by the Luftwaffe. |
26th April, 1937 |
| Pro-German riots take place in the Sudetenland area of Czechoslovakia. |
17th October, 1937 |
| Italy joins the Germany and Japan in the Anti-Comintern Pact. |
6th November, 1937 |
| Walther Funk replaces Hjalmar Schacht as German minister of economics. |
24th November, 1937 |
| Adolf Hitler replaces Werner von Blomberg as commander of the German Army. |
4th February, 1938 |
| Adolf Hitler orders the release of imprisoned Austrian Nazis. |
16th February, 1938 |
| Adolf Hitler orders the German Army into Austria. |
12th March, 1938 |
| Austria is declared part of the German Reich. |
13th March, 1938 |
| Francisco Franco, ruler of Spain, signs the Anti-Comintern Pact. |
7th April, 1938 |
| Adolf Hitler orders the mobilization of the German Army. |
12th August, 1938 |
| Neville Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler sign the Munich Agreement. |
29th September, 1938 |
| German Army occupies the Sudetenland. |
1st October, 1938 |
| Herschel Grynzspan mortally wounds Herr von Rath, a German embassy official, in Paris. |
9th November, 1938 |
| Joseph Goebbels organizes Crystal Night ( 7,500 Jewish shops destroyed and 400 synagogues burnt down). |
9th November, 1938 |
| Adolf Hitler dismisses Hjalmar Schacht as president of the Reichsbank. |
21st January, 1939 |
| The German Army invades Czechoslovakia. |
15th March, 1939 |
| Adolf Hitler demands the free city of Danzig in Poland. |
21st March, 1939 |
| Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler sign the Nazi-Soviet Pact. |
23rd August, 1939 |
| The German Army invades Poland and annexes the free city of Danzig. |
1st September, 1939 |
| Britain and France declare war on Nazi Germany. |
3rd September, 1939 |
| The German Army reach the city of Brest-Litovsk on the Polish border with the Soviet Union. |
17th September, 1939 |
| Germany formally annexes western Poland into the German Reich. |
1st November, 1939 |
| The German Army invades Denmark. |
8th April, 1940 |
| The German Army invades Norway. |
8th April, 1940 |
| Adolf Hitler launches his Western Offensive. |
10th May, 1940 |
| Netherlands surrenders and Queen Wilhelmina flees to England. |
14th May, 1940 |
| General Gerd von Rundstedt and the German Army pierce the French defences at Sedan. |
23rd May, 1940 |
| Adolf Hitler orders the German forces in France and Belgium to halt their advance. |
23rd May, 1940 |
| Adolf Hitler orders the German forces in resume their advance into France and Belgium. |
25th May, 1940 |
| Belgium surrender to the German Army and Leopold III is arrested. |
28th May, 1940 |
| The German Army enters Paris. |
14th June, 1940 |
| Henri-Philippe Petain begins to negotiate an armistice with Germany. |
17th June, 1940 |
| France signs armistice with Nazi Germany and is divided into two zones. |
22nd June, 1940 |
| The Luftwaffe began attacking RAF Fighter Command's aircraft, airfields and installations. |
13th August, 1940 |
| The Luftwaffe carry out a all-night bombing raid on London and begins the Blitz. |
23rd August, 1940 |
| Adolf Hitler postpones Operation Sealion. |
12th October, 1940 |
| Adolf Hitler meets Francisco Franco an attempt to persuade Spain to join the war. |
23rd October, 1940 |
| The Luftwaffe bomb Coventry killing 380 people and injuring 865. |
14th November, 1940 |
| The Royal Air Force bomb Hamburg in Germany. |
16th November, 1940 |
| Erwin Rommel mounts his first attack in the Desert War. |
24th March 1941 |
| Yugoslavia surrenders to the German Army. |
17th April, 1941 |
| The Luftwaffe destroy the House of Commons in Westminster. |
10th May, 1941 |
| Rudolf Hess flies to Scotland and is arrested by the authorities. |
10th May, 1941 |
| The Bismarck sinks the British battlecruiser Hood. |
24th May, 1941 |
| The Bismarck attacked and sunk by the Royal Navy. |
27th May, 1941 |
| Adolf Hitler launches Operation Barbarossa. |
22nd June, 1941 |
| The German Army advances on Leningrad. |
12th August, 1941 |
| The German Army captures Kiev, the Ukrainian capital in the Soviet Union. |
20th September, 1941 |
| The German Army advances on Moscow. |
6th October, 1941 |
| The Royal Air Force bombs the German city of Nuremberg. |
13th October, 1941 |
| Adolf Hitler sacks Heinrich von Brauchitsch as commander in chief of the German Army. |
19th December, 1941 |
| Hermann Balck and the 3rd Panzer Division captures Salonika. |
9th April, 1942 |
| Reinhard Heydrich is shot in Prague by Czech resistance fighters. |
27th May, 1942 |
| Erwin Rommel defeats Neil Richie at Gazala. |
14th June, 1942 |
| Erwin Rommel and the German Army captures Tobruk. |
21st June, 1942 |
| The German Army enters Stalingrad. |
24th August, 1942 |
| Erwin Rommel attacks Eighth Army at Alam el Halfa. |
30th August, 1942 |
| The German Army defeated at El Alamein. |
4th November, 1942 |
| Adolf Hitler orders the occupation of Vichy France. |
11th November, 1942 |
| Erich von Manstein and the 4th Panzer Army begin the attempt to relieve the 6th Army. |
12th December, 1942 |
| The Luftwaffe renews its air attacks on London. |
18th January, 1943 |
| Red Army recaptures the city of Kursk in the Soviet Union. |
8th February, 1943 |
| British and US military aircraft begin round-the-clock bombing of Nazi Germany. |
25th February, 1943 |
| Germany announces the discovery of 4,443 Polish officers at Katyn in the Soviet Union. |
13th April, 1943 |
| The Royal Air Force carryout the Dambusters Raid in the Ruhr. |
16th May, 1943 |
| Air Marshall Arthur Harris orders further bombing of Hamburg. |
24th July, 1943 |
| The intensive bombing of Berlin by the RAF begins. |
18th November, 1943 |
| The Luftwaffe make their heaviest raids on London since May 1941 |
19th February, 1944 |
| Allied bombing of Nuremberg Raid. |
30th March, 1944 |
| Second Front opened with Allied landings in Normandy. |
6th June, 1944 |
| First V1 Flying bomb lands on Britain. |
13th June, 1944 |
| July Plot against Adolf Hitler fails. |
20th July, 1944 |
| First V2 Rocket lands on Britain. |
8th September, 1944 |
| Allied troops enter Nazi Germany. |
11th September, 1944 |
| Adolf Hitler calls up all remaining males between 16 and 60 in Germany for army service. |
25th September, 1944 |
| The German Army crushes Warsaw Uprising killing 250,000 of the inhabitants of the city. |
2nd October, 1944 |
| Erwin Rommel is forced to commit suicide by the Nazi government. |
14th October, 1944 |
| Air Marshall Arthur Harris orders the bombing of Dresden. |
13th February, 1945 |
| United States Army cross the River Rhine between Mainz and Mannheim. |
22nd March, 1945 |
| Last V2 Rocket lands on Britain. |
27th March, 1945 |
| Pastor Dietrich Bonhoffer is hanged by the Nazi authorities. |
9th April, 1945 |
| Liberation of Belsen and Buchenwald. |
13th April, 1945 |
| Liberation of Dachau. |
25th April , 1945 |
| Adolf Hitler commits suicide. |
30th April, 1945 |
| Joseph Goebbels commits suicide. |
1st May , 1945 |
| Commander of German troops in Berlin surrenders. |
2nd May, 1945 |
| All military forces in Germany surrender to the Allies. |
4th May, 1945 |
| General Alfred Jodl signs the official surrender of Germany. |
8th May, 1945 |
| The German Army in Czechoslovakia surrender to the Red Army. |
9th May, 1945 |
| Heinrich Himmler commits suicide. |
22nd May, 1945 |
| The International Military War Tribunal at Nuremberg announces its verdict. |
1st October, 1946 |
| Herman Goering commits suicide. |
15th October, 1946 |
| Wilhelm Frick, Hans Frank, Walther Funk, Fritz Saukel, Alfred Rosenberg, Julius Streicher, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Alfred Jodl, Wilhelm Keitel, Arthur Seyss-Inquart,and Joachim von Ribbentrop are executed. |
16th October, 1946 |