The burning of the Reichstag was in 1933 so yes, they knew Jews were the target. Not the camps part but that was the “we knew they were monsters but not THAT kind of monsters” part.
It wasn’t as systemic as it would become. It was more like brutal paramilitaries with no independent oversight being used for ‘law enforcement’ on ‘undesirables’, no official recourse against abuses while in custody, stochastic terrorism, and an increasingly hostile environment of legal restriction and disability.
Mein Kampf was published in 1925. The Reichstag Fire Decree was enacted in 1933. Any Jew who was aware of the book at the time Hitler seized power knew they were in grave peril. Anyone who publicly opposed Hitler was arrested within hours or days of the decree. Since Hitler’s book named all Jews as his enemies, it was all you needed to know to get the hell out of Germany before you were arrested.
In 1936? They knew already that they were torturing Jews to death?
The burning of the Reichstag was in 1933 so yes, they knew Jews were the target. Not the camps part but that was the “we knew they were monsters but not THAT kind of monsters” part.
It wasn’t as systemic as it would become. It was more like brutal paramilitaries with no independent oversight being used for ‘law enforcement’ on ‘undesirables’, no official recourse against abuses while in custody, stochastic terrorism, and an increasingly hostile environment of legal restriction and disability.
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Huh. Can’t quite put my finger on it but…
Mein Kampf was published in 1925. The Reichstag Fire Decree was enacted in 1933. Any Jew who was aware of the book at the time Hitler seized power knew they were in grave peril. Anyone who publicly opposed Hitler was arrested within hours or days of the decree. Since Hitler’s book named all Jews as his enemies, it was all you needed to know to get the hell out of Germany before you were arrested.