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| 1914 |
| | | Summoned to Austria for military service, Hitler is rejected as being physically unfit | |
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| 1914 |
| | | On the outbreak of war, Hitler applies to join the German army and is enlisted in the Sixteenth Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment | |
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| 1914 |
| | | In action as a front-line HQ runner Hitler is awarded the Iron Cross, Second Class, for bravery | |
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| 1916 |
| | | Hitler is wounded in the leg at the Battle of the Somme | |
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| 1917 |
| | | Returning to the front after being wounded in the leg, Hitler is promoted to the rank of lance-corporal | |
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| 1918 August 4 |
| | | Adolf Hitler is awarded the Iron Cross, First Class, a decoration rarely given to a corporal | |
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| 1919 |
| | | Adolf Hitler joins the tiny German Workers' party, the members of which share his own virulent anti-semitism | |
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| 1920 |
| | | The German Workers' Party, with Adolf Hitler as one of its leading members, changes its name to the Nazi party | |
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| 1921 |
| | | Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the Nazi party, which now has about 3000 members | |
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| 1923 |
| | | Adolf Hitler, launching a putsch in a Munich beer cellar, announces the birth of a new national government | |
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