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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