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It Didn’t Start with the Gas Chambers
It can happen here.
On January 27, 1945, just 80 years ago, the Allies freed the remaining prisoners at Auschwitz Death Camp.
Some of the few Holocaust survivors still living, and the children of those who aren’t, are concerned that those of us who didn’t experience WWII or the Nazi camps have forgotten how the slaughter of millions of people began.
According to historians, the death camps were relatively late in the game.
Hitler tried a coup to overthrow the Weimar Republic in November 1923 but failed. After writing his autobiography while sitting in jail, he came back with a better idea, influenced by Mussolini’s Fascism in Italy.
Gaining political clout with inflammatory speeches and using the wealth of right-wing industrialists, he became Chancellor of Germany in February 1933.
Within 53 days after his election, Germany was no longer a Republic. It had become a Fascist Dictatorship.
How did it happen so fast?
A sign near a death camp indicates that it started when
1. One party controlled the media and the message, so one party decided the truth.
2. One party censored speech and silenced the opposition.
