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Chronology of Nazi Germany
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
November, 1928
Party.
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
23rd January, 1930
a state government.
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
24th April, 1932
the state parliament.
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
13th August, 1932
chancellor of Germany.
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
31st March, 1933
from local government.
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
27th February, 1937
with Germany.
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 24th November,
of economics.
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
21st January, 1939
Reichsbank.
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 1st September,
of Danzig.
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
1st November, 1939
Reich.
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
23rd May, 1940
to halt their advance.
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
23rd October, 1940
Spain to join the war.
The Luftwaffe bomb Coventry killing 380 people and injuring 14th November,
865.
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 20th September,
Soviet Union.
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
2nd October, 1944
of the inhabitants of the city.
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