Germany is forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles which imposes strict sanctions on the country. Anger at the treaty and the weight of reparations will destabilise Germany for years.
July 29, 1921
A socialist interim German government was replaced by the official creation of the democratic Weimar Republic.
November 9 1923
Hitler joins the German Workers' Party having been sent to spy on it by the military.
July 1, 1925
Hitler was able to become chairman of his party which was renamed National Socialist German Workers' Party.
Hitler believes the time is right to stage a coup. Aided by a force of SA brown shirts the support of WW1 leader Erich Ludendorff and brown beaten locals he staged the Beer Hall Putsch. it failed.
Hitler published "Mein Kampf" an exploration of what passed as his ideology.
