The Nazis become Germany's largest party
1932 · Event
At the summer election the NSDAP takes 37 per cent and 230 seats — the largest party, though short of a majority, and in November its vote actually falls. It is at that moment of stall that the conservative intriguers around Hindenburg decide they can hire Hitler and 'box him in'.
On these timelines: Hitler's Rise to Power, Germany, Master
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)
- Reichstag Fire Decree (1933)
- Germany becomes a one-party state (1933)
- The Nazis break through at the polls (1930)
- Dachau concentration camp opens (1933)
Around 1932
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Presidency of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1923)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Spanish Civil War (1936)
- The Holocaust (1933)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- World War II (1939)
- Winston Churchill's first premiership (1940)
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)