Date: March 5, 1933
On this day with SHAC: in Germany, the Nazi Party won the majority vote in the national elections, with 43.9 per cent or 17.2 million votes. This event is significant as it marks the day in which the ball of the Second World War and the Holocaust was set in motion. At the beginning of his career as Germany’s leader, Adolf Hitler didn’t seem all bad, heading up campaigns against smoking, and animal cruelty, and establishing Volkswagen – the car company that sold cars to Germans for a dollar, just so they could have access to one. Hitler was even named Time Magazines “Man of the Year” in 1938, and was nominated by for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1939.
However it became apparent that the power began to change him and his ideology was twisting. Among the most blatant changes were the SS (Schutzstaffel), Hitler’s special paramilitary unit, opening concentration camps like Dachau outside of Munich and boycotting Jewish-owned businesses, as well as, the creation of the “Law for the Reestablishment of the Professional Civil Service,” which allowed for tenured civil servants of non-Aryan decent to be relinquished of their position, and the creation of the “Law for the Prevention of Progeny with Hereditary Diseases,” which allowed forced sterilization of those who suffered from a genetic disorder for the purpose of stopping further generations of Germans from being born with these disorders.
Once these events began to occur, it was only a matter of time until the major events of the Holocaust and Second World War began, and Hitler became engrained in history as a violent and disturbed dictator, for the rest of time.