Adolf Hitler Biography and Timeline — Page 9

Sturmabteilung (SA)

Hitler has a meeting with Rohm, the SA has to take 1 months leave

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1933-1934

Meeting with In Venice

Hitler & Mussolini meet in Venice

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1933-1934

Plot

Promises General Blomber that he will suppress the SA leadership. Meets with Lutze & declares that the SA must go

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

Arrest of Ernst Rohm and other SA Leaders

Confronts Rohm & has him & other SA leaders arrested

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

Arrest of Ernst Rohm and other SA Leaders

Confronts Rohm & has him & other SA leaders arrested. Confronts Rohm, accuses hime of organizing a rebellion & has him arrested

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

Arrest of Nazi Party rivals

Orders the arrest & execution of all rivals to him within the Nazi Party

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

Execution

Orders the arrest & execution of all rivals to him within the Nazi Party. Execution of Fritz Gerlich, executed by the Nazis for editing an anti-Nazi newspaper. Executed by the Nazis, had drafted Papens protest speech 13 days prior. Executed by the Nazis, Director of the Students Welfare Fund

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

Night of Long Knives

Confronts Rohm & has him & other SA leaders arrested

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

Night of Long Knives

Gives the codeword, "Kolibri" & triggers off a massacre in Berlin. Assassinations against the SA & ideas of Ernst Roehm who wants a Socialist revolution

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

Execution

Has Gregor Strasser executed, 1 of the founders of the Nazi Party. Former Chancellor Schleicher is gunned down by 6 assassins

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

Execution

The execution of Rohm gives Hitler full control of the SA

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

Execution

Has von Kahr executed because he had led the troops against Hitler's Beer Hall putsch

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

Night of Long Knives

Hitler instructs Wilhelm Frick to draft a law making the killings legal. Defends his actions in the Reichstag which "belonged to a higher justice". Defends himself in the Reichstag as "the Supreme Justiciar of the German People". Announces Rohm, von Schleicher & Gregor Strasser plotted against the Reich

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

Coup

Austrian Nazis break into the Federal Chancellery & assassinate Dolfuss

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

Assassination of Engelbert Dollfuss

Nazis murder Dolfuss during a failed coup after he objects to anschluss with Germany

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

Coup

Nazis murder Dolfuss during a failed coup after he objects to anschluss with Germany

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

Coup

Austrian Nazis break into the Federal Chancellery & assassinate Dolfuss

Arrest of Adolf Hitler

More than 150 SA leaders are arrested & executed

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

Constitution of Germany

A law is passed combining the offices of "Fuhrer and Reich Chancellor" with President

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1933-1934

Constitution of Germany

Goebbels makes a broadcast announcing the merger of the offices of Fuhrer & President

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1933-1934

Death of Adolf Hitler

Deth of Hindenburg, Hitler becomes head of state & the army swears an oath to him

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1933-1934

Constitution of Germany

Appoints himself as President of Germany after the death of President von Hindenburg

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

Oath

The armed forces swear an oath of allegiance to the "Fuhrer & Chancellor Adolf Hitler"

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

President of Germany

Appointed President of Germany

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

Fuhrer Chancellor

On the death of Hindenburg proclaims himself Fuhrer, a position created by himself

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

Weimar Republic

The powers of the Lander (states) were transferred to the Reich, rendering the Reichsrat obsolete, a month later, the01 Reichsrat itself was dissolved & when President von Hindenburg die in August Hitler appropriated the presidents powers for himself

Role range: 1919-1933 – 1933-1934

Deutsche Arbeits Front

Issues a decree compelling all workers have to join the Deutsche Arbeits Front

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

Labour Movement

The Nazi labour movement is formed

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

Coup

Mussolini mobilizes on the Brenner Pass & forces Hitler to give up annexation. Mussolini mobilizes 4 Divs after the assassination of Dolfuss, Hitler's coup fails

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

Execution

Van der Lubbe is beheaded in a German prison yard after being found guilty of the Reichstag fire

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1933-1934

Armament

Orders the Army to increase its strength from 100,000 to 300,000 by October 1 1934

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

Constitution of Germany

The "Peoples Court" was set up outside the operations of the constitutional frame of law, the court had jurisdiction over a rather broad array of "political offenses," which included crimes like black marketeering, work slowdowns, defeatism and treason

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

Constitution of Germany

Abolishes the title & office of the President

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

Gestapo

The Gestapo has the authority to arrest citizens on the mere suspicion that they might commit a crime, and the definition of a crime is at their discretion. Hitler says of the Gestapo that "all means, even if they are not in conformity with existing laws and precedents, are permitted if they serve the will of the Fuhrer"

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

Interview

Announces to a Daily Mail reporter that "war will not come again"

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

Night of Long Knives

The Reichstag retrospectively makes the plot both "legal & statesmanlike"

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

Peoples Court

The "Peoples Court" was set up outside the operations of the constitutional frame of law, the court had jurisdiction over a rather broad array of "political offenses," which included crimes like black marketeering, work slowdowns, defeatism and treason.

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

Peoples Court

The Court handed down an enormous number of death sentences under Judge-President Roland Freisler.

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

Peoples Court

The Peoples Court (German: Volksgerichtshof) is established in 1934 by Hitler, who had been dissatisfied with the outcome of the Reichstag Fire Trial (all but one of the accused were acquitted).

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945

Treason

The "Peoples Court" was set up outside the operations of the constitutional frame of law, the court had jurisdiction over a rather broad array of "political offenses," which included crimes like black marketeering, work slowdowns, defeatism and treason

Role range: 1933-1945 – 1934-1945