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1933.
Germany gets a new Chancellor.
The NSDAP movement to make Germany great again wasn’t a revolution or military coup but a political movement that gained power manipulating the mechanisms in the Constitution.
That’s how republics become dictatorships.
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“Adolf Hitler, picturesque leader of the German fascists, was made Chancellor of Germany today” reads the 1933 headline.
“Picturesque” as in colorful and perhaps harmless?
What would he have been like on Twitter?
"President Von Hindenburg surrounded him with a cabinet of conservatives" said the newspaper in 1933.
We've heard that line before.
A lot of good those "conservatives" did.
Lapdogs for the leader.
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