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Hitler didn't start with the camps. (Original Post) applegrove 4 hrs ago OP
The camps started pretty early The Revolution 4 hrs ago #1
I think the OP Pototan 3 hrs ago #2
Banks and Big Business were enablers bmichaelh 3 hrs ago #3
The Weimar Constitution itself was key Kaleva 1 hr ago #4

The Revolution

(895 posts)
1. The camps started pretty early
Sun Mar 29, 2026, 04:18 AM
4 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

(3,122 posts)
2. I think the OP
Sun Mar 29, 2026, 04:24 AM
3 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.

Kaleva

(40,353 posts)
4. The Weimar Constitution itself was key
Sun Mar 29, 2026, 06:45 AM
1 hr 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.

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