Jan. 1919: Communists take over most of Berlin; Freikorps ejects them, otherwise
Germany may have become a Communist country
Communist Leadership often Jewish
Trotsky, Zinoviev, Kamanev in USSR
R. Luxembourg, K. Eisner in Germany
Bela Kun in Hungary
March 1919: Replay
April 1919: Unsuccessful Soviet Bayern Putsch in Munich
June 1919: Treaty of Versailles
Huge reparations
Border adjustments (France, Belgium, Poland)
Plebescites
Army limited to 100,000
Summer 1919: AH begins service as political officer
Oct 1919: NSDAP rents Hofbräuhaus. 70 show up
Feb. 1920: 2,000 show up
1920: Kapp right wing putsch in Berlin stopped by workers’ strike
March 1920: AH ordered to leave Reichswehr
1920: Völkischer Beobachter publishes Protocols of Zion
1920: Swastika adopted
Dec. 1920: 3,000 members
July 1921: AH resigns unless he’s made Führer. Party capitulates.
Nov. 1922: U.S. Embassy sends Truman Smith to observe.
Jan. 1923: France marches into Ruhr because of reparations nonpayment
Inflation: Mark went from 6750 per dollar to 50,000 per dollar
In a week. By October, 6 million marks per dollar.
Nov. 8 1923: Aborted Nazi putsch in Munich (“Either the German revolution
begins tonight or we will all be dead by dawn.”
14 SA. 4 police killed.
Ludendorf arrested. AH dislocates shoulder, flees and is then arrested.
Early 1924: AH put in trial. Given 5 years.
July 1925: 1st volume of Mein Kampf published; second in 1926
Lebensraum
Anti-Semitism
Anti-Versailles
Nationalism
Some Socialism
Early 1930: Horst Wessel killed; HW Lied developed
Sept. 1930: Nazis get 18% of vote in national election (2nd largest party)
Jan. 1932: AH addresses nation’s industrialists in Düsseldorf. Downplays
socialism. Talked economic recovery, fighting communism,
dealing with labor unrest.
March 1932: AH gets 35% of vote; Von Papen Chancellor
July 1932: Nazis get 37% and are largest party. Hermann Göring becomes President of
the Reichstag.
Nov. 1932: Nazis actually lose votes and seats in election, but no one has a majority.
Gen. Kurt Von Schleicher appointed Chancellor by Hindenberg, but he
Can’t get enough support to form a government.
Jan. 1933: Industrialists visit Hindenberg, push AH
Jan. 1933: AH asked to form government with Von Papen as VC. Von Paper thinks
they can control AH.
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Jan. 30 1933:Hitler becomes Chancellor
Feb. 1933: Reichstag burns
March 1933: Hindenberg signs emergency decree to eliminate many civil liberties
March 1933: Nazis get 43% in election
March 1933: Reichstag overwhelmingly votes to legalize emergency decree
June 1934: Night of the Long Knives
Aug. 1934: Hindenberg dies; military swear oath to AH
March 1935: Germans occupy Rhineland
Summer 1936: Olympics
Summer 1936: Treaty with Italy
Nov. 1937: AH meeting with military; said war likely in 1943
Feb. and March 1938: Austria occupied
May to October 1938: Sudetenland
Sept. 15: Chamberlain flies to Berchtesgaden
Sept. 21: Chamberlain flies to Bad Godesberg (AH now said no!)
Sept. 29: Munich Conference (Peace in our Time)
Nov. 9 1938: Kristallnacht
March 1939: Germany occupies rest of Czechoslavakia
April 1939: AH tells military he will attack Poland on 1 September 1939
Early Summer 1939: Chamberlain’s secret offer to AH
Aug. 23, 1939: Nonaggression Pact with USSR and secret protocols
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