"Der Führer" (The Leader). August 1921: NSDAP party membership was recorded at 3,300. 1922 Prototype versions of the Hitler Youth form. The Prussian State Health Commission for Racial Hygiene (Preussischer Landesgesundheitsrat für Rassenhygiene) works to centralise the institute's research concerning the practical application of racial hygiene, eugenics and anthropology. 12 January: Adolf Hitler sentenced to three months for disturbance of 14 September 1921. 24 June: Hitler incarcerated; German Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau assassinated, some involved are in the Organisation Consul. July: Inflation hits the German economy: 670 RM = 1 US$ 27 July: Hitler released. August: 2,000 RM = US$1 October: 4,500 RM = US$1 28 October: Benito Mussolini establishes his Fascist dictatorship in Italy. November: 10,000 RM = US$1 22 November: Dr. Wirth leaves office 16 December: The German Völkisch Freedom Party (DVFP) was founded when Wilhelm Henning, Reinhold Wulle and Albrecht von Graefe broke from the German National People's Party (DNVP). 27 December: France occupies the Ruhr. 1923 28 January: First Parteitage (Nazi Party Day) held under the slogan Deutschland Erwache (Germany Awake) in Munich. February: Reichsbank buys back RM; stabilizes RM at 20,000 to US$1 4 May: RM 40,000 = US$1 27 May: Albert Leo Schlageter, a German freebooter and saboteur, executed by a French firing squad in the Ruhr. Hitler declared him a hero that the German people was not worthy to possess. 1 June: RM 70,000 = US$1 30 June: RM 150,000 = US$1 1-7 August: Inflation became hyperinflation: RM 3,500,000 = US$1 13 August: Dr. Wilhelm Cuno leaves office 15 August: RM 4,000,000 = US$1 1 September: RM 10,000,000 = US$1 1 September: German Day Rally takes place in Nuremberg 24 September: Chancellor Stresemann ends the passive resistance in the Ruhr; infuriates the nationalists. 30 September: Major Fedor von Bock crushes a coup attempt by the Black Reichswehr. Also, RM 60,000,000 = US$1 6 October: Dr. Gustav Stresemann (People's) forms 2nd cabinet 20 October: General Alfred Mueller marched on Saxony to prevent a communist takeover. Then, General Otto von Lossow in Bavaria is relieved of command by Berlin; he refuses. 23 October: Communist takeover of Hamburg 25 October: Hamburg uprising suppressed 8 November: Hitler and Ludendorff launch the Beer Hall Putsch in the Bürgerbräukeller in Munich. 9 November: Beer Hall Putsch quelled. 1924 26 February: Hitler Putsch trial begins. 1 April: Hitler sentenced to five-years at Landsberg prison. From here, Hitler writes Mein Kampf