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Hitler becomes chairman of the Nazi Party
📅 29 Juli 1921Party delegates elected Hitler chairman after an internal power struggle. His leadership helped consolidate the movement around authoritarian nationalism, racial ideology, and antisemitism. The...
Hitler launches the failed Beer Hall Putsch
📅 8 November 1923Hitler and Nazi allies attempted to seize power in Bavaria. The coup failed and Hitler was arrested, but his trial gave him a platform among nationalist audiences. The event illustrates the movement’s...
First volume of Mein Kampf is published
📅 18 Juli 1925Hitler’s book circulated racial antisemitism, conspiracy theories, and authoritarian nationalism. It was one part of a wider propaganda environment; it did not by itself determine later policy,...
Nazi Party becomes the second-largest party in Reichstag election
📅 14 September 1930The Nazis won about 18 percent of the vote and became the second-largest party in parliament. The result followed a campaign exploiting economic crisis and attacking democracy and Jews. It was a...
Nazis win largest share in July Reichstag election but no majority
📅 31 Juli 1932The Nazi Party won 37 percent of the vote and became the largest party, but did not win a majority. Hitler demanded the chancellorship and refused coalition participation on other terms....
Nazi vote falls in November election while party remains largest
📅 6 November 1932The Nazi vote declined to about 33 percent, down from July, though the party remained the largest in the Reichstag. The result shows that Nazi support could fluctuate and that Hitler’s appointment...
Hitler is appointed chancellor
📅 30 Januari 1933President Paul von Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler chancellor after conservative elites brokered a political deal. The appointment did not result from a majority vote for the Nazi Party, but gave it...
Hindenburg appoints Hitler chancellor of Germany
📅 30 Januari 1933President Paul von Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler chancellor through constitutional procedures after political crisis and elite negotiations. Hitler was not directly elected to the office and did...
Nazi-organized boycott targets Jewish businesses
📅 1 April 1933The Nazi Party and affiliated organizations staged a nationwide boycott of Jewish-owned shops, lawyers, and doctors. The action made exclusion visible in public space and foreshadowed the state-backed...
Nazi book burnings attack Jewish and critical thought
📅 10 Mei 1933Nazi student groups burned works by Jewish, socialist, liberal, and other writers in public ceremonies in Berlin and other cities. The spectacle linked cultural censorship to the regime’s wider...
Kristallnacht unleashes coordinated anti-Jewish violence
📅 9 November 1938After a Nazi-organized pogrom began on the night of November 9–10, synagogues were burned, Jewish businesses and homes destroyed, and Jewish people assaulted and killed. Police and fire services...
Hitler dies as Soviet forces enter Berlin
📅 30 April 1945Adolf Hitler died by suicide as the Red Army fought through Berlin. Nazi rule was collapsing, but killings, death marches, and camp evacuations continued in the war’s final days. The defeat of the...