Below is the concluding part of the rise and fall of Aldof Hitler
1935
Hitler re-arms Germany with the aim of undoing the Treaty of Versailles and uniting all the German peoples. Military conscription is introduced.
March 1938
Chamberlain, Daladier, Hitler, Mussolini, and Ciano pictured before signing the Munich Agreement
Chamberlain, Daladier, Hitler, Mussolini, and Ciano before signing the Munich AgreementThe Austrian Chancellor, leader of the Austrian Nazi Party, invites the German army to occupy Austria and proclaim a union with Germany.
September 1938
British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain meets Hitler in Germany. Britain, France and Italy sign the Munich Agreement which gives the Sudetenland (the German populated borderlands of Czechoslavakia), to Germany.
October 1938
German army occupies the Sudetenland.
November 1938
In what is historically referred to as Crystal Night, 7,500 Jewish shops are destroyed and 400 synagogues are burnt. The attack is portrayed as a spontaneous reaction to the death of a German diplomat by a Jewish refugee in Paris. It is actually orchestrated by the Nazi party who also kill many Jews and send 20,000 to concentration camps.
Crystal Night is considered to be the beginning of the Final Solution and the Holocaust, which you can study in more depth. The mass killing represented by the Holocaust raises many questions concerning the development of European civilisation during the twentieth century.
Hitler and World War II
1939
Peace treaty with Russia secured with the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. Hitler invades Poland on September 1st and after 3 weeks of lightning war or ‘Blitzkrieg’ the country is divided between Russia and Germany. On September 3rd France, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand declared war on Germany.
1940
The Nazis occupy Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium and France. Romania and Yugoslavia are invaded.
June 1941
OKH commander Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch and Hitler, studies maps during the early days of Hitler’s Russian Campaign
Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch and Hitler studying maps during Operation BarbarossaGermany attacks Russia, ignoring the peace pact. Operation Barbarossa, The German invasion of Russia, begins.
December 1941
Japanese Air Force attacks Pearl Harbour and war is declared on the US.
February 1943
Although commanded by Hitler to stand and fight, the Germans surrender in the battle of Stalingrad. From this point in the war, Germany is continually retreating.
July 1944
Hitler survives an assassination attempt by Colonel Stauffenberg, who places a bomb in a briefcase under a table close to Hitler. As a result, Hitler purges the army of all possible suspects.
January 1945
Soviet troops enter Nazi Germany.
22 April 1945
Hitler decides to stay in Berlin to the last.
26 April 1945
Berlin completely besieged by the Soviet Army Fronts of Marshals Koniev and Zhukov.
Hitler’s death
30 April 1945
Hitler commits suicide with his wife of two days, Eva Braun; their bodies are believed to have been cremated.