Simulated Real Time is a literary method of creating an event with the help of authentic material accompanied by a commentary framework.
The aim of this method is to gain greater understanding of a historical event in this way, using modern technology to bring it to life as vividly as possible.
This online publication started on 30 January 2013, eighty years to the day since Hitler was appointed Chancellor, and will end on 2 July 2013 (according to the projects website).
It depicts the Nazis’ first five months in power, and how this affects the life of a German-Jewish civil servant family in Hamburg.
January 30, 2013 was also the starting date of 1933: The Beginning of the End of German Jewry in which the Jewish Museum Berlin throughout the year 2013 will present a variety of primary source materials that bear witness to the disenfranchisement and exclusion of German Jews, as well as to aspects of their everyday life (according to the museum's website).