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08/05/2022, 14:23 Weimar And Nazi Germany | SutoriSS Shubham Sharma
Weimar And Nazi Germany
1918-1939
1918
- November: A German republic is proclaimed, under the leadership of Friedrich Ebert, after the abdication
of Kaiser Wilhelm II.
- November: Warring nations sign an armistice to end fighting in World War I. The armistice comes into
effect at 11.00am.
- November: Corporal Adolf Hitler is discharged from military hospital after recuperating from severe gas
poisoning.
- December: The formation of the first unit of Freikorps (a militia comprised of ex-soldiers) near Hagen in
western Germany.
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1919
- January: Communist revolutionaries attempt to seize control of Berlin but are defeated by Freikorps
troops.
- January: The provisional German government relocates to the city of Weimar because of the violence in
Berlin.
- January: The Social Democrat Party (SPD) wins 38 per cent of the votes in elections for the new national
assembly.
-February: SPD leader Friedrich Ebert is confirmed as the first president of the new German republic.
- June: The Treaty of Versailles is ratified by the German Reichstag, despite opposition in the nationalist
press.
- June: The Treaty of Versailles is signed by all parties, formally ending hostilities in World War I.
- August: The proclamation of the new Weimar constitution, creating a new liberal democratic political
system for Germany.
- September: Reichswehr officers order Corporal Hitler to attend meetings of the German Workers’ Party
(DAP) and report on its activities. Hitler joins the party after attending two meetings.
1920
- February: Hitler’s party, the DAP, renames itself the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (or NSDAP).
- February: The NSDAP publishes its political manifesto, a 25-point statement listing its beliefs, value and
agenda.
- March: The Kapp putsch, an attempt to seize Berlin launched by a small group of ex-soldiers and
nationalists, fails.
- March: Adolf Hitler is formally discharged from the German military and is employed by the NSDAP.
- June: Elections for the national Reichstag see socialist parties win almost 40 per cent of votes and seats.
-December: The NSDAP obtains its first newspaper, Voelkischer Beobachter.
1921
- July: Hitler resigns from the NSDAP in protest against a proposed merger with another right-wing party.
- July: Hitler accepts an invitation to re-join the party and replaces Anton Drexler as its supreme leader.
- September: Hitler is arrested for disturbing the peace, after gate-crashing a meeting of a rival political
group.
1922
- January: Hitler serves a month in prison for his disturbing the peace offence of September 1921.
- June: German foreign minister Walter Rathenau is murdered by Organisation Consul, a right-wing terrorist
group.
- October: Italian fascist Benito Mussolini becomes the prime minister of Italy, after his successful ‘march
on Rome’.
- December: French troops occupy the Ruhr region after Germany defaults on several reparations
payments.
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