That was just January. Will this be February?

Christopher Driscoll
1 min readJan 30, 2017

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“4 Feb 1933 A German emergency decree outlawed gathering of people against the national government and outlawed publication of any writing against the national government.

5 Feb 1933 A German emergency decree dissolved all elected bodies in Prussia.

6 Feb 1933 One day after all elected bodies in Prussia, Germany were dissolved, control of all police in Prussia were given to the national government. Most of the former police officials retired, and some of the positions vacated were given to Nazi Party members.

11 Feb 1933 The SA, in the Rhineland, Germany, were sworn in as police auxiliaries.

22 Feb 1933 Initial plans were made for a detention camp in Oranienburg, Germany; Hermann Göring established an auxiliary police force in Prussia, Germany, staffed mostly with members of the SA organization.

23 Feb 1933 Adolf Hitler announced his wish to gain Lebensraum for German people.

24 Feb 1933 Hermann Göring’s auxiliary police raided Communist Party offices in Prussia, Germany and claimed to have found documents suggesting the Communists were planning a revolt against the German republic.

27 Feb 1933 The German Reichstag building was destroyed by fire. 10,000 political opponents of the Nazi Party, mostly communists, were subsequently arrested.

28 Feb 1933 German President Paul von Hindenburg issued the Reichstag Fire Decree, suspending key civil liberties in Germany.”

Sources: Reprinted here, with minor edits, from http://ww2db.com/event/timeline/1933/

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Christopher Driscoll

Scholar of Religion, Race, and Culture. Climber. Louisiana Native. Author of White Lies and other things. christopherdriscollphd . com