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

The Revolution

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

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

(3,126 posts)
2. I think the OP
Sun Mar 29, 2026, 04:24 AM
Sunday

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

(132,184 posts)
5. They had "concentration camps" in the 1930s but they didn't mass slaughter. Journalists
Sun Mar 29, 2026, 01:59 PM
Sunday

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.

Kaleva

(40,363 posts)
4. The Weimar Constitution itself was key
Sun Mar 29, 2026, 06:45 AM
Sunday

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.

(9,785 posts)
7. Orange $$$$$$atan is more like Kim Jung Un (his "idol").
Sun Mar 29, 2026, 02:08 PM
Sunday

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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