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Nazi Germany

I realised recently1 that I wasn’t actually sure of the timeline under which Weimar Germany becamse a fascist state under the NSDAP and subsequently committed atrocities.

Hitler’s rise

  • 1919 - Hitler joins German Workers Party (DAP).
  • 1921 - DAP renamed to NSDAP.
  • 1923 - Failed coup #1 (Beer Hall Putsch), Hitler jailed.
  • 1925 - Mein Kampf published.
  • 1933 - Hitler appointed chancellor, passes act to become dictator.
  • 1934 - Night of the Long Knives, purges.

Holocaust

  • 1933 - First concentration camp, Dachau. Jews barred from holding office.
  • 1935 - Jews stripped of citizenship, barred from armed forces, cannot marry Aryans.
  • 1936 - Jewish doctors banned, 2nd concentration camp (Sachsenhausen) opened.
  • 1937 - 3rd concentration camp (Buchenwald) opened.
  • 1938 - Night of Broken Glass: 200 synagogues destroyed; 7,500 Jewish shops looted; 30,000 male Jews sent to concentration camps. All Jewish children expelled from schools, all property confiscated.
  • 1939 - Hitler states intent to exterminate Jews in case of war, starts war by invading Poland.
  • 1941 - “Final solution” begins.
  • 1942 - >1 million Jews killed.
  • 1945 - Hitler commits suicide.

Footnotes

  1. 2025-01-16 ↩

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