The History Of Nazi Germany In LEGO Timeline
Need a History lesson on the WW2? To help you learn a bit more about history Fithboy spent all of January recreating the history of Nazi Germany in LEGO Timeline. Using his beloved LEGO figurines he planned and set some of the more important events of this terrible historical period using only LEGO.
Do you know these LEGO facts?
1. LEGO is 82 years old.
The LEGO Group was founded in 1932 in Denmark. It went from a small carpenter’s workshop to the world’s third largest manufacturer of toys.
2. A LEGO brick from 1958 would still interlock with a LEGO brick made today.
3. The name has a very special meaning.
The LEGO name was created by using the first two letters of the Danish words “Leg” and “Godt,” meaning “play well.”
You can read more LEGO facts here
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January 1933
Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany.
February 1933
40,000 SA and SS men are sworn in as auxiliary police.
February 1933
The Reichstag building is burned, probably by the Nazis.
February 1933
Emergency Powers are given to Hitler.
March 1933
The Nazis open the first concentration camp.
April 1933
Nazis define Jews as non-Aryan and boycott Jewish owned business.
May 1933
Jewish books are burned in Berlin and other German cities.
1933-1938
Jews lose almost almost all rights and are opressed by the Nuremberg Laws.
November 1938
Kristallnacht; Night of the Broken Glass, riots that destroy Jewish shops and business. German police overlook it.
September 1939
Germany invades Poland. WWII has begun in Europe.
September 1939
Stalin’s Russian troops invade Eastern Poland. He and Hitler plan to split the land between them when the country is occupied.
October 1941
Auschwitz is opened. Jews from around Europe will be killed here in their millions over the next few years.
June 1944
D-Day. Allied troops land in Normandy.
1945
As the Allied forces push through Germany they liberate concentration camps.Â
April 1945
Hitler commits suicide.
January 2015
My desk after going through WWII.Â
