[narrator] Phase I: The Consolidation (1933–1939)
The timeline begins not with a bang, but with bureaucracy. Upon taking power in 1933, Adolf Hitler moved with terrifying efficiency. The Reichstag Fire Decree and the Enabling Act dismantled democracy not through civil war, but through legal strangulation.
The critical divergence occurred in 1938. In our timeline, the Munich Conference appeased Hitler over the Sudetenland. In this timeline, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s capitulat