Artist Recreates The History Of Nazi Germany In LEGO Timeline

Published 10 years ago

If you feel like you need to brush up on your history of Nazi Germany or you’re simply interested in how it might have looked in the world of LEGO, this series has you covered. LEGO buff Fithboy spent his January going through the history of the Third Reich with his beloved LEGO figurines, setting and photographing some of the most important scenes from this terrible and tumultuous historic period.

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January 1933

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Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany.

February 1933

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40,000 SA and SS men are sworn in as auxiliary police.

February 1933

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The Reichstag building is burned, probably by the Nazis.

February 1933

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Emergency Powers are given to Hitler.

March 1933

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The Nazis open the first concentration camp.

April 1933

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Nazis define Jews as non-Aryan and boycott Jewish owned business.

May 1933

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Jewish books are burned in Berlin and other German cities.

1933-1938

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Jews lose almost almost all rights and are opressed by the Nuremberg Laws.

November 1938

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Kristallnacht; Night of the Broken Glass, riots that destroy Jewish shops and business. German police overlook it.

September 1939

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Germany invades Poland. WWII has begun in Europe.

September 1939

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Stalin’s Russian troops invade Eastern Poland. He and Hitler plan to split the land between them when the country is occupied.

October 1941

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Auschwitz is opened. Jews from around Europe will be killed here in their millions over the next few years.

June 1944

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D-Day. Allied troops land in Normandy.

1945

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As the Allied forces push through Germany they liberate concentration camps. 

April 1945

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Hitler commits suicide.

January 2015

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My desk after going through WWII. 

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