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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHitler didn't start with the camps.
— Susan (@naurielsjh.bsky.social) 2026-03-29T05:19:56.580Z
The Revolution
(895 posts)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)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)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)Banks and Big Business were enablers is also an item.
Kaleva
(40,360 posts)Article 48 empowered the President (Hindenburg) to rule by decree, suspending civil liberties during emergencies, ultimately facilitating the democratic collapse and Hitler's rise.
Swede
(39,465 posts)nt
Justice matters.
(9,775 posts)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).
