Hitler - His Rise To Power

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Hitler and the Nazis

1919:

November ; Hitler joins the German Workers party.

1920:

Hitler becomes leader of the Party renames the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazi Party)

1921:

Hitler founds the SA 'Sturm-Abteilung' to intimidate opposition parties.

1923:

November ; Hitler tries to seize power - the Munich or Beer Hall Putsch.

1924:

February ; Hitler's trial and imprisonment for leading the Munich Putsch. In prison he writes Mein Kampf which puts across his views.

1929:

The Wall Street crash. Depression follows Germany.

1930:

Nazis do well in elections. They win 107 seats.

1933:

January ; Hitler becomes chancellor.

Hitler and the SA

Hitler personally designed the Nazi flag, with its symbol, the swastika. The colours red, white and black had also been the colours of Germany's flag under the Kaiser. Very quickly the swastika became the best known political symbol in Germany.

"A symbol it really is! In red we see the social idea of the movement, in white the nationalist idea, in the swastika the mission of the struggle for the victory of the Aryan man!" - Hitler describing the Nazi flag in 1924.