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Hitler in WW1
On October 7, 1916, Hitler's luck ran out when he was wounded in the leg by a shell fragment during the Battle of the Somme. He was hospitalized in Germany. It was his first time away from the Front after two years of war. Following his recovery,Then was assigned to light duty in Munich.In August 1918, he received the Iron Cross 1st Class, a rarity for foot soldiers. This cuased the hatred in Hitler to grow towards those who killed the people of Germany -
At the end of WW1
In the summer of 1919, Adolf Hitler was still in the Army and was stationed in Munich where he had become an informer. Corporal Hitler had named soldiers in his barracks that supported the Marxist uprisings in Munich, resulting in their arrest and executions.
Hitler then became one of many undercover agents in the German Army weeding out Marxist influence within the ranks and investigating subversive political organizations. -
HItler's Political Awakening
Hitler went to a meeting of the German Workers' Party in the back room of a Munich beer hall, He listened to a speech on economics by Gottfried Feder entitled.This enraged Hitler and he spoke out forcefully against the man for the next fifteen minutes uninterrupted, to the astonishment of everyoneAfter Hitler's outburst ended, Drexler hurried over to Hitler and gave him a forty-page pamphlet entitled: "My Political Awakening." He urged Hitler to read it and also invited Hitler to the party -
Nazi Party Formed
After joining the German Workers' Party in 1919 at age thirty, the public meeting to a beer cellar that would hold about a hundred. but just over a hundred showed up at the meeting held on October 16, 1919.The German worker party had gained 3000 members because of Hitler speach he gave.
They Renamed to the Nazi Party . This marked the begining of hitlers rise to power in the politcal world -
Adolf Hitler Named Leader of Nazi Party
Adolf Hitler, and the growing Nazi party.He traveled to Berlin to visit nationalist groups during the summer of 1921.But in his absence, he faced an unexpected revolt among his own Nazi Party leadership in Munich.Hitler rushed back to Munich and countered them by announcing his resignation from the Party on July 11, 1921.They realized the loss of Hitler would effectively mean the end of the Nazi Party. He would only return unless given leadership of the Nazi Party -
The Beer Hall Putsch
The Nazis and other similar groups now felt the time was right to strike. The German state of Bavaria where the Nazis were based was a hotbed of groups opposed to the democratic government in Berlin. By now, November 1923, the Nazis, with 55,000 followers, were the biggest and best organized.And so Hitler and the Nazis hatched a plot in which they would kidnap the leaders of the Bavarian government and force them at gunpoint to accept Hitler as their leader.
Which then failed -
Nazi party Elected
Hitler offered something to everyone: work to the unemployed; prosperity ; profits to industry; expansion to the Army; social harmony and an end of class distinctions to idealistic young students; and restoration of German glory to those in despair. On election day September 14, 1930, the Nazis received 6,371,000 votes –18% Thus they were entitled to 107 seats in unison into the Reichstag and took their seats. They later soon became the only party . -
The Reichstag Burns
Hitler manipulated Hindenburg into dissolving the Reichstag and calling for the new elections he had wanted – to be held on March 5th, 1933.An arsonist named Marinus van der Lubbe, 24, from Holland, had been wandering around Berlin for a week attempting to burn government buildings to protest capitalism and start a revolt -
Hitler Named Chancellor
Now, the man who had spent his entire political career denouncing and attempting to destroy the Republic, was its leader. Around noon on January 30th, Hitler was sworn in.
Within weeks, Hitler would be absolute dictator of Germany and would set in motion a chain of events resulting in the Second World War and the eventual deaths of nearly 50 million humans through that war and through deliberate extermination. -
HItler Becomes A dictator
After the elections of March 5, 1933, the Nazis began a systematic takeover of the state governments throughout Germany,Armed SA and SS thugs barged into local government offices using the state of emergency decree as a pretext to throw out legitimate office holders and replace them with Nazi Reich commissioners.Political enemies were arrested by the thousands and put in hastily constructed holding pens. Becoming the man who we know today
