Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels makes Der Führer a compulsory term for Hitler in the Nazi party

Adolf Hitler finally exchanges Austrian for German nationality, just in time to run for the German presidency

Adolf Hitler stands for election as president of the German republic and wins 36% of the vote

President Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler chancellor of the German republic

German chancellor Adolf Hitler orders the sterilization of carriers of hereditary mental diseases, in one of his government's first pieces of legislation

The electoral campaign for a new Reichstag, demanded by Hitler, is conducted with escalating Nazi violence

The burning of the Reichstag during the German election enables Adolf Hitler to introduce emergency measures restricting liberty

Adolf Hitler puts a bill before the first meeting of the newly elected Reichstag, giving himself unrestricted powers

Gustav Krupp and his son Alfried, Germany’s main manufacturers of armaments, join the Nazi party

Adolf Hitler passes a law forcing the 'retirement' of all Jews working in the civil service, schools and universities

Adolf Hitler, the new German chancellor, pulls Germany out of the League of Nations and its disarmament conference

Adolf Hitler wins massive referendum support for his withdrawal of Germany from the Disarmament Conference and the League of Nations

German photographer Leni Riefenstahl glorifies Hitler and the Nuremberg rally in her film Triumph of the Will

Benito Mussolini plays host in Venice to Adolf Hitler, the newcomer among European dictators

Adolf Hitler visits his SA commander, Ernst Roehm, in his hotel before having him shot

Multiple murders are carried out on Hitler's orders during the Night of the Long Knives

Kurt von Schuschnigg succeeds the murdered Dollfuss as Austria's chancellor and Hitler's opponent

Paul von Hindenburg dies, enabling Adolf Hitler to combine the roles of president, chancellor and supreme commander of the German armed forces

In a referendum 38 million German voters say yes to Adolf Hitler becoming Führer, Germany's supreme leader

Hitler tells the party faithful in a Nuremberg rally that their new third Reich will last for 1000 years

Adolf Hitler informs Britain and France that he is building up the German armed forces, in contravention of the Versailles treaty

Adolf Hitler reinstates Germany's airforce, the Luftwaffe, putting Hermann Goering in command

Adolf Hitler gets away with a calculated international risk when he reintroduces conscription in Germany

Adolf Hitler's rearmament programme begins to reduce German unemployment, and by 1938 eliminates it entirely

Adolf Hitler gives Karl Dönitz, a submarine commander from World War I, responsibility for Germany's U-boat programme