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Hitler didn't start with the camps. (Original Post) applegrove 13 hrs ago OP
The camps started pretty early The Revolution 12 hrs ago #1
I think the OP Pototan 12 hrs ago #2
They had "concentration camps" in the 1930s but they didn't mass slaughter. Journalists applegrove 2 hrs ago #5
Banks and Big Business were enablers bmichaelh 11 hrs ago #3
The Weimar Constitution itself was key Kaleva 10 hrs ago #4
The elite money men quickly learned they could not control him. Swede 2 hrs ago #6
Orange $$$$$$atan is more like Kim Jung Un (his "idol"). Justice matters. 2 hrs ago #7

The Revolution

(895 posts)
1. The camps started pretty early
Sun Mar 29, 2026, 04:18 AM
12 hrs ago

Hitler became Chancellor January 30th, 1933. Dachau started operating March 22, 1933. So it was only a matter of weeks. True, it took some time for things to ramp up to the horrifying atrocities we think of the most, but I think the real warning should be how fast these things can happen.

Pototan

(3,124 posts)
2. I think the OP
Sun Mar 29, 2026, 04:24 AM
12 hrs ago

really means that Hitler didn't with the Holocaust.

He had camps early on, but, as you said, the multiple atrocities came a few years later.

applegrove

(132,160 posts)
5. They had "concentration camps" in the 1930s but they didn't mass slaughter. Journalists
Sun Mar 29, 2026, 01:59 PM
2 hrs ago

and academics visited those early camps and did stories on them. I read an account in a sociologist academic periodical from about 1937. They were filled with political prisoners and journalists and the like. There was no mass murder. They were fed.

bmichaelh

(1,177 posts)
3. Banks and Big Business were enablers
Sun Mar 29, 2026, 05:19 AM
11 hrs ago

Banks and Big Business were enablers is also an item.

Kaleva

(40,360 posts)
4. The Weimar Constitution itself was key
Sun Mar 29, 2026, 06:45 AM
10 hrs ago

Article 48 empowered the President (Hindenburg) to rule by decree, suspending civil liberties during emergencies, ultimately facilitating the democratic collapse and Hitler's rise.

Justice matters.

(9,775 posts)
7. Orange $$$$$$atan is more like Kim Jung Un (his "idol").
Sun Mar 29, 2026, 02:08 PM
2 hrs ago

Although his niece Mary is fine and I hope she will keep being fine...

Ask the families of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

Also, massive blackout on the way (power grid).

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