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Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide. |
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Adolf Hitler marries Eva Braun designates Admiral Karl Dönitz as his successor. |
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Nazi leader Adolf Hitler makes an announcement on German radio pledging that "accounts will be settled," following the attempt on his life the day before. |
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Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt led by Claus von Stauffenberg, when a conference table protects him from a briefcase bomb. |
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Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini end their five day meeting at the Salzburg Conference. |
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Yet another attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler failes at the German Heroes Day celebration. |
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Failed assassin attempt on Adolf Hitler during his Smolensk-Rastenburg flight. |
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All German resistance at Stalingrad ends when remaining Nazi forces surrender in the first significant defeat of Hitler's Wermacht. |
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General Friedrich Paulus asks Adolf Hitler for permission to surrender his forces at Stalingrad, but Hitler orders that German forces fight to fight to the death. |
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Hitler names Mussert "leader of Netherlands people". |
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A Nazi U-boat sinks an American cargo ship at mouth of Mississippi River. |
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Hitler takes complete command of the German Army. |
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Hitler orders that ships of the United States should be torpedoed. |
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Hitler's Siege of Lenningrad begins and lasts for 900 days. |
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Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union, in one of the most dramatic turning points of World War II. |
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Hitler announces that Germany will send a force to North Africa to bail out the retreating Italian army. The Afrika Corps is created with Erwin Rommel in command of its Third Panzer Division. |
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Adolf Hitler signs a secret directive ordering Nazi forces to prepare for an invasion of the Soviet Union. |
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Nazi leader Adolf Hitler is filmed surveying the surrendered city of Paris in German occupied France. |
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Nazi blitz begins the conquest of France as the Muese River is crossed. |
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Nazi Germany invades Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg with a Panzer Attack across the Ardennes. |
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Adolf Hitler names Adolf Eichmann to lead "Referat IV B," which dealt with Jewish affairs and evacuation. He is transferred to Gestapo of the Reich Main Security Office. For next six years, Eichmann's office is HQ for the "Final Solution." |
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Hitler escapes bombing attach in a Munich Beer Hall. |
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With the aid of new radar, 185 German planes are shot down during the Battle of Britain, forcing Hitler to abandon his plans for invasion. |
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The Hossbach Memorandum lays the foundation for Hitler's war plans. |
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Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles by introducing military conscription. |
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Adolf Hitler becomes Fuhrer of Germany. |
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Nazis murder Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a coup attempt that fails. |
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The Night of the Long Knives. Adolf Hitler has various members of the SA murdered. |
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The Nazi party is declared the only party in Germany. |
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German Chancellor Adolf Hitler condemns the "1918 Traitors" of World War I during a speech in Kiel, Germany. |
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