Hitler joins the German Workers' Party
1919 · Event
Sent by army intelligence to spy on a fringe party of a few dozen in a Munich beer hall, a thirty-year-old corporal argues from the floor, is invited to join — member number 555, the count started at 501 to look bigger — and discovers the one talent that will matter: he can speak.
On these timelines: Hitler's Rise to Power, Germany, Master, World War II
More from Hitler's Rise to Power
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Hindenburg dies and Hitler becomes Führer (1934)
- Night of the Long Knives (1934)
- Beer Hall Putsch (1923)
- The Nazis become Germany's largest party (1932)
- Germany becomes a one-party state (1933)
- The Nazis break through at the polls (1930)
- Dachau concentration camp opens (1933)
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- Great Depression (1929)
- Irish revolutionary period (1912)
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- Mexican Revolution (1910)
- World War I (1914)
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Pop music: the 1910s (1910)