2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: WaPo: Let’s just say it: The Republicans are the problem. [View all]Diclotican
(5,095 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
It all depend of how you are looking at it.. If an internet had been able for the masses at the end of the Wiemar Republic in Germany I doubt that would have meant to much - as they had enough information to have a idea of what the NSDAP was long before 1933 when Hitler was elected chancellor or Germany - in a minority government govern by conservatives!! Germany wanted deadly to go back to some form of "normality" after a decade of radical transformation from 1914, to the 1920s and then the chaotic 1930s where the money literary got out of worth by the time you get it out of the bank freeday afternoon..
And not least - when it was a lot of cheating and rig-voting in place to ensure that a conservative party got the power in 1933.. Hitler might not have von at all, if it was not for the fact that many conservatives worked hard to get an conservative elected to the chancellor of Germany.. In 1932 Hitler tried to get elected as the President of Germany, and lost with less than One percent of the votes... And after that NSDAP was almost broke - it was just the worsting economical collapse of Germany that saved NSDAP from going down the tubes... And some help from the KRUPP trust, who gave millions of RM to make NDSDAP solvent again.. And in 1933, (January 30) Hitler was made Chancellor by the conservatives - and Von Hindenburg, the President. A person who by now was old, geriatric and not at least senile, and totally out of tutch with the reality of what happened in Germany. He still believed SA was the tropps from his youth - the army of Wilhelm II and the empire....
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