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Hitler, eyes fixated on camera, 1932.
A devoted cameraman always accompanied Hitler during criss-cross across Germany on election campaigns to get best propaganda shots.
A devoted cameraman always accompanied Hitler during criss-cross across Germany on election campaigns to get best propaganda shots.
Hitler ran an ultra-modern campaign using unprecedented propaganda techniques. His flying tours to 100 towns on a plane loaned by director of Lufthansa and fiery speeches were filmed professionally and projected all over, forging the myth of Hitler, the supreme savior.
(1932)
(1932)
Excerpted from the documentary film "Apocalypse: The Rise of Hitler".
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A sex scandal that could have destroyed Hitler even before he reached supreme power. He later declared himself a bachelor married to Germany.
In the elections that propelled him to power Hitler actually *lost* 2 million votes (Nazis dropped from 37.3 to 33.1%) but became the chancellor as head of a coalition with other parties.
"For an instant I can physically smell blood and mud." -a student in Berlin wrote.
"For an instant I can physically smell blood and mud." -a student in Berlin wrote.
Nazi propagandists were not only masters of Big Lie but big fakery. On the night Hitler became Chancellor less than 15,000 SS and SA storm-troopers marched in Berlin in circles for hours to give the impression of a million man force.
"It was drunkenness without wine. I heard people shouting -"Death to the Jews! Jewish blood will gush under the knife." " - a Berlin school teacher witness to the night of Hitler's triumph.
Just a reminder that Hitler was the poison fruit that grew on the tree of nationalism and bigotry on the soil of a unified Germany.
