Nazi Germany Timeline
| Chronology of Nazi Germany | |
|---|---|
| Events | 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 Party. | November, 1928 |
| 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 a state government. | 23rd January, 1930 |
| 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 the state parliament. | 24th April, 1932 |
| 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 chancellor of Germany. | 13th August, 1932 |
| 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 from local government. | 31st March, 1933 |
| 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 with Germany. | 27th February, 1937 |
| 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 of economics. | 24th November, 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 Reichsbank. | 21st January, 1939 |
| 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 of Danzig. | 1st September, 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 Reich. | 1st November, 1939 |
| 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 to halt their advance. | 23rd May, 1940 |
| 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 Spain to join the war. | 23rd October, 1940 |
| The Luftwaffe bomb Coventry killing 380 people and injuring 865. | 14th November, 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 Soviet Union. | 20th September, 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 of the inhabitants of the city. | 2nd October, 1944 |
| 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 |
| Joseph Goebbels commits suicide. | 1st May , 1945 |
| Commander of German troops in Berlin surrenders. | 2nd May, 1945 |
| All military forces in Germany surrender to the Allies. | 4th May, 1945 |
| General Alfred Jodl signs the official surrender of Germany. | 8th May, 1945 |
| The German Army in Czechoslovakia surrender to the Red Army. | 9th May, 1945 |
| Heinrich Himmler commits suicide. | 22nd May, 1945 |
| The International Military War Tribunal at Nuremberg announces its verdict. | 1st October, 1946 |
| Herman Goering commits suicide. | 15th October, 1946 |
| Wilhelm Frick, Hans Frank, Walther Funk, Fritz Saukel, Alfred Rosenberg, Julius Streicher, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Alfred Jodl, Wilhelm Keitel, Arthur Seyss-Inquart,and Joachim von Ribbentrop are executed. | 16th October, 1946 |