Timeline (Seven Days to the River Rhine)

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1924

 * Vladimir Lenin dies of a heart attack on January 21, 1924. General Secretary Joseph Stalin becomes the new leader of the USSR.


 * Adolf Hitler is pardoned from jail on December 19 he decides to visit the Soviet Union where he meets the newly appointed leader Joseph Stalin. Stalin invites Hitler to lunch where they have a long talk about politics and other major topics, Hitler shakes Stalins hand then leaves for Germany.

1933

 * Hitler leads the Nazi Party to power in Germany and forms Nazi Germany, backed by the Soviet Union Germany becomes a formidable power in Europe.