Adolf Hitler Biography and Timeline — Page 17

Demonstrations

After the assassination of von Rath by a Jewish Pole Hitler provokes anti-Jewish riots

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

Kristallnacht

Synagogues are set on fire, cemeteries violated & Jewish buildings destroyed. 30,000 Jews are sent to concentration camps. 26,000 male Jews arrested

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

Kristallnacht

The assassination of vom Rath in Paris is used to spark off "Kristallnacht"

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

Diplomatic Mission at Berlin

The US Ambassador is withdrawn from Berlin after the events of "crystal night"

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

Kristallnacht

Authorities arrested 22 Germans who tried to stop the violence.

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

Kristallnacht

German and Austrian Jews suffer 1 billion Marks of damage and forced to wear the Star of David.

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

Kristallnacht

Nazi leaders heard that a Jew had shot a German diplomat in Paris and ordered reprisals, Nazis kill 35 Jews, arrest thousands and destroy Jewish synagogues, homes and stores throughout Germany and Austria.

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

Kristallnacht

Nazis destroyed 7,600 Jewish businesses, and 236 people died.

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

Kristallnacht

The violence burned 191 synagogues and 177 Jewish apartments.

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

Capture of Danzig

Issues a directive to the Commanders in Chief of the Armed Forces to occupy Danzig

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

Invasion of Danzig

Issues a directive to the Commanders of the Armed Forces for the occupation of Danzig

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

Invasion of Poland

Issues a directive to the Commanders in Chief of the Armed Forces to occupy Danzig

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

Rule of Danzig

Issues a directive to the Commanders of the Armed Forces for the occupation of Danzig

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

Siege of Danzig

Issues a directive to the Commanders in Chief of the Armed Forces to occupy Danzig

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

Poland renews a non-aggression pact with the USSR to protect against a

Poland renews a non-aggression pact with the USSR to protect against a German invasion

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

Operation Transport Exercise

Hitler orders the Kriegsmarine to plan a sea-borne invasion of Memel under the codename "Transport Exercise Stettin"

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

Rule of Memel

Hitler orders the Kriegsmarine to plan a sea-borne invasion of Memel under the codename "Transport Exercise Stettin"

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

Legislation

Jewish property is "legally" confiscated

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

Diplomatic Negotiations at Berlin

Signs a declaration to hold talks on mutual relations. Signs a declaration renouncing Germany's claim to Alsace-Lorraine

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

Rule of Alsace-Lorraine

Signs a declaration renouncing Germany's claim to Alsace-Lorraine

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

Rule of Memel

National Socialists win 26 of 29 seats in the local assembly (Landtag)

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

Washington sends its fourth note to Berlin demanding amnesty for Jews

Washington sends its fourth note to Berlin demanding amnesty for Jews

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

Cabinet

Sets up a Secret Cabinet Council, probably to impress Chamberlain, but it never meets

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

Crisis

Hitler uses the crisis to appoint himself supreme commander of the armed forces. Dismisses 16 high ranking officers during the Blomberg-Fritsch crisis. Dismsses Blomberg & Fritsch after contrived revelations about their personal lives

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

Wehrmacht

After von Blomberg resigned following the Blomberg-Fritsch Affair the Armed Forces High Command (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht or OKW) under Wilhelm Keitel is created

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

Wehrmacht

Appointed the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

Blomberg-Fritsch Affair

After von Blomberg resigned following the Blomberg-Fritsch Affair the Armed Forces High Command (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht or OKW) under Wilhelm Keitel is created

Role range: 1934-1945

OKL

The OKW coordinates military activities but Keitels sway over the three branches of service (army, air force, and navy) was rather limited, each its own High Command, known as Oberkommando des Heeres (OKH, army), Oberkommando der Marine (OKL)

Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW)

After von Blomberg resigned following the Blomberg-Fritsch Affair the Armed Forces High Command (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht or OKW) under Wilhelm Keitel is created

Role range: 1934-1945

Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW)

The OKW coordinates military activities but Keitels sway over the three branches of service (army, air force, and navy) was rather limited, each its own High Command, known as Oberkommando des Heeres (OKH, army), Oberkommando der Marine (OKL). After von Blomberg resigned in the course of the Blomberg-Fritsch Affair the Armed Forces High Command (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht or OKW) under Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel is created

Oberkommando des Heeres (OKH)

The OKW coordinates military activities but Keitels sway over the three branches of service (army, air force, and navy) was rather limited, each its own High Command, known as Oberkommando des Heeres (OKH, army), Oberkommando der Marine (OKL)

Wehrmacht

After von Blomberg resigned in the course of the Blomberg-Fritsch Affair the Armed Forces High Command (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht or OKW) under Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel is created

Wehrmacht

The OKW coordinates military activities but Keitels sway over the three branches of service (army, air force, and navy) was rather limited, each its own High Command, known as Oberkommando des Heeres (OKH, army), Oberkommando der Marine (OKL). In the reshuffle Hitler becomes the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces

Supreme Commander

Appointed the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces

Role range: 1938-1945 – 1934-1945

Reform of Royal Succession

Jews have to add the name Israel to their signature

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1933-1934

Foreign Policy Statement at Berlin

Makes a speech praising the Italian Government & its leader Mussolini

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

Final Solution

Prior to the beginning of World War II, during a speech (the six year anniversary of his accession to power), Hitler foretold the coming Holocaust of European Jewry

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945

Holocaust

Prior to the beginning of World War II, during a speech (the six year anniversary of his accession to power), Hitler foretold the coming Holocaust of European Jewry

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945

Dismissal

Schacht is dismissed as President of the Reichsbank

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

Recieves the Czech Foreign Secretary Chvalkovsky & threatens the breakup of Czech

Recieves the Czech Foreign Secretary Chvalkovsky & threatens the breakup of Czech

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945