Timeframes and change over time: an event in the Timeline of Choice.

Following on the theme of choosing historical timeframes that, like characters, have an identifiable arch, this post will explore one historical event and how it can relate to the Timeline of Choice below:

Timeline of Choice

The holocaust: A systemic, government-directed and government-sponsored long-term annihilation initiative of the Jewish, communists, Roma, interior intelligentsia, homosexuals, trade unionists, so called "brown and dark races" and mentally and physically disabled people and culture in the entirety of the expansive German Empire.    Expressed in the Timeline of Choice we identify, firstly, the impact of a memetic legacy that cemented the basis of the German ideal of a nation in three historical echoes. By calling his rule the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler, leader of the political movement National Socialism of Germany (Nationalsozialismus), was setting eyes and hearts on the glories of a memetic past that could be idealized and therefore instrumentalized. The memetic potential was there for him to use, to potentialize and weaponise. It could be said the movement itself –what led the nazis into power– began, not with Hitler, but with the first historical Reich (the Holy Roman Empire) or the first modern version of it, (the recent unification of the German Republic), and was echoed into motion by the Second Reich (Bismark's German Empire), or the original Third Reich as proposed by Arthur Moeller van den Bruck (the meeting of left and right extremes in the Weimar Republic). This underlying current of events may even suggest the rise of nazism and the consequent holocaust as endemic to the historical process and thus inevitable. But this is not so. While all societies, especially those with longer known histories that can accrue harsher tensions are prone to this, it was the specific events of the timeframe between 1910 to 1940 what created the conditions for such a radical policy as was the Final Solution (which led to The Holocaust).     In terms of choosing this Timeframe, a writer may identify a series of subsequent consequences, cause that lead to events that lead to causes, which formed in essence and form the Holocaust itself. Let us now examine the Timeline of Choices and its elements to see exactly how these played out during the timeframe.     The Genetic Legacy, in this case the racial purity desired by the German governmental body, derived from the pre-modern notion of mechanical solidarity which defined the German people in opposition to a globalizing world that had failed them and rejected them (see WW1 and the Treaty of Versaille). The natural response to a globalising impetus that demonised the German people after the fatality and tragedy of The Great War was to withdraw into common ground. In this case the common ground of the unchanging and once prosperous genetic legacy of being Aryan (an interesting mistake, given that Aryans are originally those who came from modern-day Iran/persia and who claim an even more successful and potentialised memetic legacy as the originators of civilisation and the first speakers of Indo-European tongues). 
    In their relation to nature, the time period itself shows constant radical change. It is easy to imagine that, with all that was changing in terms of their understanding of nature and their relationship to nature, the germans of the time must have felt close to being able to define and redefine every element of the world around them. They claimed the skies in the 1910s by flying and merely thirty years later had conquered the atom.
    In their type of solidarity it is clear, especially given the power of an event such as The Holocaust, that a regression into pre-modern ideals of mechanic relationships was radicalised to a point of harmful reactions to an unwanted state of perceived invasion (or social poisoning) from the so-called Other. In this case, solidary to the German "aryan" overwhelmed all relationships to the point in which anger and resentment towards the invaders became the only moral choice. Standing in solidarity to the germans became the only way to be a german. This redefined their moral foundations as well, making it moral, not just necessary, to oppress the Jews, communists, homosexuals, Roma people, trade unionists etc.