If you don't want to read all of Arendt's book, https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/genocide/nazi_genocide_timeline_noflash.shtml https://www.bbc.co.uk/hist

If you don't want to read all of Arendt's book, https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/genocide/nazi_genocide_timeline_noflash.shtml https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/genocide/nazi_genoci... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmabteilung#Rise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmabteilung#Rise provides some details of the violence before and during Hitler's rise to power. This line in particular is frightening: > They thought that the Nazis were just another right-wing, nationalist party and that Hitler would be 'tamed' by power.