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In February 1923 there was

Jan. 1933 The Nazi Party becomes 1927 The Nazis hold their first
an economic crisis. The
the largest political party in massive political rally, the
gov’t printed more & more
Germany and President Nuremburg Rally, to attract
money until it was
Hindenburg is forced to make people to their cause.
worthless. It was called
Hitler Chancellor (similar to a
hyperinflation.
deputy-prime minister)

April. 1933. Hitler creates the


Gestapo, a secret police to do
his bidding and capture political
enemies. He sets up the first
concentration camp for them.

In March 1923 Because Germany


couldn’t pay France their
November 1923 Germans reparations the French invaded
were angry that the gov’t parts of Germany and took goods
wasn’t trying to do anything instead. The small German army
to stop hyper-inflation or get 1929 The Great Depression: couldn’t stop them.
the French out. Hitler USA ask for their money back
decided to stage a ‘putsch’ in from Germany, who then
Munich, and he, the Nazis can’t afford to pay France.
and the SA tried to France invades the country Feb. 1933 the government
overthrow the gov’t. But he again and unemployment in building is set on fire and the
and others were shot and Germany reaches 4 million. Nazis point the finger at the
imprisoned instead. Communist party. Hitler
creates the ‘Enabling Law’
which allows him to make up
1924-1925 Hitler was sent laws in ‘an emergency’. He
to prison for trying to bans other political parties.
overthrow the German
government. This got him
a lot of press coverage,
especially when he
decided to write a book
1934. President Hindenburg about his thoughts, ‘Mein
dies and Hitler decided to Kampf’.
combine his role of
Chancellor with that of the
President. He renames
himself as the ‘Fuhrer’
meaning ‘leader’ in German.

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