Adolf Hitler was born on April 20th 1889 in which small town in Austria?
Hitler's father Alois was the illegitimate son of Maria Schicklgruber who married who in 1894? Alois adopted the name but is was spelt in the record book as Hitler.
As a young boy Hitler, after attending a monastic based school for a year, had the idea of becoming a what?
Hitler left school aged sixteen in 1906 without having obtained his important what?
Hitler's father had died in 1903 leaving him an inheritence in his will. After the death of his mother in 1907 Hitler went to which city intending to achieve his dream of becoming a great artist?
Arriving there, Hitler twice failed the entrance examination for which institution?
Hitler had shown a talent for drawing and was advised to follow a career in what?
With no High School Diploma to do so, Hitler spent his time visiting opera's etc especially liking those of which German composer of such as the four-opera cycle 'The Ring of the Nibelung'?
Hitler's money eventually ran out and he was reduced to what, taking occasional menial jobs and selling small pictures often painted on postcards, and at times even sleeping rough?
Hitler had become politcally aware and now despising the Austro-Hungarian Empire he left Vienna in 1907 to avoid mandatory service in the Austrian army and went to which city?
Hitler fought in the German army in World War One as a dispatch runner, was wounded and gassed and received what award unusually given to a foot soldier?
With nowhere to go Hitler stayed in the army at wars' end and became a sort of what, attending meetings of possibly Marxist workers groups?
It was in discussions with other army members that Hitler discovered his talent in delivering what?
In 1919 Hitler attended a meeting of which tiny political party whose underlying priniciples he liked so much he joined it believing he could mould it to his own ends?
Hitler soon became the de facto leader of the party via the power of his speeches and changed it's name to what?
Which Nazi organisation was formed in 1919 with the intention of fighting and disrupting Communist political rallies whilst also protecting Hitler from the same thing?
Who had joined the Nazi party in 1919, became leader of the SA and had been very helpful in it's creation?
Which future Deputy Führer joined the Nazi party in July 1920 and was eventually to fly to Scotland on an unauthorised peace mission in 1941?
Of what of the Nazi party did Hitler become on July 29th 1921?
Who was the future Reichsführer and head of the SS who joined the Nazi party in 1923?
Who was the World War One flying ace and future head of the Luftwaffe who also joined the Nazi party in 1923?
Hitler and the Nazi's stood mostly for the injustices of the post-war Treaty of Versaille, Germany's need to rediscover it's pride and it's hatred of Communists and who?
The French occupation of the Ruhr for non-payment of reperations caused what monetary crisis in Germany in 1923?
Encouraged by this, by Mussolini's 'March on Rome' in 1922 and by hysteria at mass meetings, in November 1923 Hitler launched what intending to bring down the German government?
The putsch failed and at his trial Hitler pleaded guilty to which charge but a sympathetic judge, sentencing him to five years in prison, reduced it to nine months and a period of probation?
Which leader of the German army in World War One who had been convinced by Hitler to join him in the putsch was acquitted?
In prison Hitler wrote which book about his struggles, political ideology and intentions?
Hitler claimed Germany was too small and crowded and needed what which would be obtained in the east, ie, the USSR?
After the hyperinflation of 1923, which USA funded scheme implemented 1924 lessened reparation payments and lent money to Germany allowing the German economy to recover?
With the economy recovering, the small and revolutionary Nazi party seemed irrelevant but Hitler simply organised the Nazi's into a mini 'government in waiting' and merely what?
Which Nazi organisation was formed in April 1925 as a section of the Sturmabteilung (SA) and originally functioned as a personal bodyguard for Hitler?
Who was the future Minister of Propaganda who joined the Nazi party in early 1925?
The republic founded in Germany after World War One, the first truly Democratic government in Germany, took it's name from which city?
Which former field marshal, statesman, and politician became President of the Republic aged 78 in 1925?
Which event in 1929 made America call in their loans to Germany resulting in bank and company collapses and high unemployment in Germany?
With some with six million unemployed and believing that democracy had failed Germans now tended to split into two backing the right wing Nazi's or their opposite, who, leaving the moderate centre party's weak?
To that end, with political deadlock in the government resulting in changes of Chancellor and several forthcoming elections, President Hindenburg and the Chancellors began to rule by power of what?
Hitler contested the 1930 election and won 18.25% of the vote and 107 seats leaving them the second largest party after who with 143 seats. The Communists won 77 seats.
Hitler used what in a novel and effective way of travelling quickly around the country to campaign and attend rallies?
In which city July 1932, did violent street fighting and hundreds of gun battles take place between the SA and the Communists resulting in the declaration of Martial Law?
In the July 31st 1932 election the Nazi's became the largest party in Germany winning 37.27% of the vote and 230 seats. Hitler was offered which post which he refused?
In the 1932 November election the Nazi vote dropped to 33% with 196 seats. The Social Democrats won 121 seats and the Communists 100 and the Nazi party was nearly what?
Despite the fall of support, with the government still paralysed to what post was Hitler appointed on January 30th 1933?
Businessmen etc had put pressure on Hindenburg to appoint Hitler. Which aristrocrat had had the idea of giving the Nazi's only three cabinet posts and surrounding Hitler with moderates thus 'taming him'?
On hearing the news, which once short-term ally of Hitler's telegramed Hindenburg saying, 'I prophesy to you this evil man will plunge our Reich into the abyss'?
In February the aged and befuddled Hindenburg signed a decree that gave the Nazi's the power to establish in Prussia a large Nazi dominated police force that would eventually be known as the what?
On 27th February which building in Berlin that housed the German Parliament was mysteriously destroyed by fire?
Hitler blamed the Communists and Hindenburg signed a decree that curtailed some civil liberties. Anti-Nazi's and Communists were arrested and thrown into what by the fledgling Gestapo?
On March 23rd Hitler and his SA brow-beat and threatened the Parliament, less the arrested Communist members, into passing what?
Not for the first time, Hitler had been underestimated and he now became what of Germany less than two months after being 'tamed'?
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