There were obviously no camps yet when Hitler became chancellor. They started by harassing jews, spreading hateful propaganda, smashing in store windows, and slowly enacting laws to restrict jews rights

Wrufieotnak@feddit.org · 21 pts · 136d (1 reply)

Yes, there were no camps when the Nazis took power, but it's not like they took their time opening them:

Wikipedia on Nazi concentration camps:

The first camps were established in March 1933 immediately after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany.

Zwiebel@feddit.org · 4 pts · 136d

Touché

DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 5 pts · 136d (2 replies)

I read a novel set in the early days of Hitler's reign*

A private eye and a cop are chatting.

"Last year, Germany executed thirty five people. This year it's already over 200. I don't know where it's going to end."

*Berlin Noir trilogy by Phillip Kerr.

Zwiebel@feddit.org · 5 pts · 136d (1 reply)

The official plan was to ship all eleven million european jews to Madagascar btw. When that became infeasable in 1943 they had a conference where they went "well murder it is then"

Sergio@piefed.social · 2 pts · 136d

in 1943 they had a conference where they went “well murder it is then”

There were a couple interesting re-enactments of this for TV and movies. Looks like most the links here are still live: https://lemmy.world/post/24683087