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when Hitler became dictator of Germany

he applied what he wrote in his book

Mein Kampf

a stronger race will drive out the weak

races for the vital urge crushes the

weak to make room for the strong

thank you

Hitler managed to take power and become

the supreme leader the fuhrer

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Nuremberg 1929 the Nazi party Congress

is the real beginning of what German

playwright bear told breast will call

the resistible rise of Adolf Hitler

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the devastating new economic crisis

originating in the United States has

caused Havoc throughout the world

particularly in Germany

one after the other factories closed

their doors and the number of unemployed

reaches the astounding figure of 6

million

out of despair

many Germans turned to the Nazis or to

the Communists who also have their

paramilitary troops complete with

uniforms

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Communists and Nazis Clash violently in

all the elections that follow

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Hitler provokes disorder

while at the same time claiming to be

the only man capable of stopping it

this tactic of blackmail proves

effective

Hitler rallies the small business owners

and homeowners to his cause by

denouncing the threat of the red plague

the egalitarian marxists who also strike

fear into the hearts of the peasantry

the result is astonishing

100 elected Nazis enter the heistag the

German Parliament Hitler is now the

leader of the country's second political

party after the social Democrats

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yet the upper classes who despise Hitler

aren't particularly worried

Stefan zweig wrote

to them power had always been the

reserve of the berries the princes and

those with a university education

nothing blind to the German

intellectuals as much as pride in their

culture

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and in the meantime Hitler's rise

continues

in just a year it comes to dominate The

Extreme right in Germany veterans

associations such as the steel helmets

with a half a million members will have

to obey his orders

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behind his domineering posturing Hitler

hides a terrible secret he has just

emerged from a scandal which might have

finished him

rumors of a personal drama circulate in

the Press

he had conceived a passion for his own

niece Gali hoba aged 23.

he loved her irrationally possessively

she has just committed suicide

she was living with him in his Munich

apartment

she confided to a friend

my uncle is a monster

no one could imagine what he demands of

me

she wanted to leave him

and now she is dead

a press campaign is launched against him

accusing him of sexual perversion and

even of having Kelly murdered

dreamly depressed Hitler threatens to

kill himself as well

his worried Entourage decides to act

as photographer Heinrich Hoffman

introduced him to one of his secretaries

she resembles Kelly

her name is Eva Brown

she's 19 and already quite worldly

she fits the bill

she's captivated by the Nazi party

Leader's popularity

Hitler will make her his new Shadow

mistress

he declares himself a bachelor married

to Germany to gain the sympathy of

female voters

German women already have the right to

vote thanks to the feminist movement

Eva Brown is above all a sports

enthusiast

dreams of becoming an actress and

starring in Tarzan movies in Hollywood

at her side Hitler recovers his

combativeness as a political animal

at a time when the end of the Mandate of

Germany's president Hindenburg is

Drawing Near

Hitler is among the candidates to

succeed him in 1932.

hardly 10 years after his attempted

Pooch and incarceration Hitler is on the

verge of becoming president of Germany

Germans are subjected to an intensive

poster campaign

Nazi propaganda Chief Joseph goebbel

says

let us be grandiose

he devises an ultra-modern election

campaign using airplanes a European

first

the largest commercial plane of the time

is provided by the director of Lufthansa

Airlines

who isn't adverse to this free

advertising opportunity

Hitler wearing a leather helmet

sets off on a tour of some 100 German

towns where he can gauge his popularity

his Pilot Hans Bower recalled we flew in

all kinds of weather even in storms

canceling a rally was out of the

question

people ended by losing their fear of

flying

Hans Bauer's conclusion

Hitler contributed to the expansion of

air traffic

Goebbels invents the slogan the fuhrer

above Germany

he forges the myth of Hitler the Supreme

savior during these aerial hustings

carefully filmed and then projected all

over the country

Goebbels cannot relax yet the campaign

costs a lot and the industrial Barons

are still wary of Hitler's violent

methods

the Nazis must charge everyone who comes

to listen to Hitler the equivalent of

one Euro

it doesn't discourage them on the

contrary

a witness Von spawn describes his

reaction

suddenly felt Hitler's eyes on me

and it affected me for the rest of my

life

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a week before the presidential elections

Hitler brings together 100 000 berliners

sick of the traditional parties who seem

incapable of facing the crisis

twenty-year-old Yuta rudiger is in the

crowd

I can't explain the state that

unemployment plunged us into we really

thought that Hitler alone could get us

out of that misery

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future

then God's hand off train

at least by this evening to goodgate

pseudosocial discourse Hitler becomes a

serious candidate for the presidency

the Press have a field day

on the right Hitler is seen as the

Prototype of the political adventurer

on the left

the insults are more personal

Hitler is described as a pansy a

half-mad cheater a vain charlatan a fake

tough guy with a rhinoceros hide riding

crop

going present Marshall Hindenburg

although a reactionary monarchist is

supported by the left

this Paradox reflects the growing danger

of Hitler's rise as is hammered home by

his most determined opponent Social

Democrat leader Otto vels

foreign

April 10 1932 the verdict is announced

Hitler will not be president

13 million Germans have voted for him a

third of the electorate it is enormous

but it isn't enough

foreign

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thanks to the social Democrats and wants

to be free of his dependence on them he

instigates a new election

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and Hitler continuing his resistible

rise starts campaigning again

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as he gives five speeches a day his

entourage is reeling

one of his intimate says we were like

seconds who have to get their boxer back

into shape between rounds

Hitler feeds off the crowds

he's Carried Away by his own virulence

is

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for Hitler the first party to eliminate

in the 1932 election campaign is the

Communist Party

the Stormtroopers are given the task

they are now four hundred thousand

strong they finance themselves paying

for their own uniforms and equipment

one of them wolf toibert Works in a

delicatessen in Hamburg

he is ready to join his motorized unit

at a moment's notice

States

I had only one thought to risk my life

for Germany

the humiliation of the Treaty of

Versailles had made me a passionate

defender of Hitler

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there was companionship solidarity and

pride in wearing a uniform

we who were ashamed of having been too

young to have fought in the Great War

took advantage of our elders experience

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gerbils concocts an idol to inspire them

Forest vessel a petty crook from Berlin

who became leader of an assault Brigade

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killed by the Communists a year earlier

he was made the Nazis token martyr

speaking at his elaborate funeral

ceremony

gibbles had compared this man's

sacrifice to Christ's

he had these images filmed to depict

Nazism as a devotional practice like

Christianity

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he had original music commissioned for

what he called the last poem of the Dead

essay member and made it the official

anthem of the Nazi party the Horst

veselite the song of Horst vessel

The Credo of violence

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foreign

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the Red Front are the Communist militias

they always wear workers caps and

Russian blouses

all these militants men and women

are inspired by their ideals

they too have their combat songs

foreign

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July 1932 the bloody Summer of the

election campaign

the sa Stormtroopers with the complicity

of the police provoked Street battles

with the Communists 100 dead and one

thousand wounded is the toll among the

Communists

many Journeys exhausted by the disorder

and the government's powerlessness

approve of the Nazis violent Acts

the result

230 Nazis elected to Parliament

Hitler is now head of the country's

strongest political party

power is within his reach for the first

time

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quickly however Euphoria gives way to

disappointment

president Hindenburg refuses to name him

Chancellor head of the government

Hindenburg tells Hitler

before God my conscience and the

Fatherland

I cannot hand over power to a party as

intolerant as yours

nevertheless Hindenburg offers him a

role in the government

but Hitler doesn't consider himself an

ordinary politician seeking a

ministerial position

he wants all the power to establish a

totalitarian state

in a few weeks Goebbels the head of the

vast Nazi parliamentary group succeeds

in paralyzing Democratic procedure no

majority can be formed now doubles

smiling the malicious smile of his evil

Deeds announces it's high time to

dissolve this assembly which no longer

reflects the will of the people

another election has to be called the

third within a year it will take place

in November Hitler's sees it as another

chance to make gains

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the election's results are a crushing

disappointment for Hitler

surrounded by his personal SS guards he

Broods over his failure

he has lost 2 million voters and 40

seats

gibbles says

we've had a setback Hitler refused to

enter the government and the voters

didn't understand why

with bitterness gibbles reads the

Foreign Press reports the London Daily

Herald writes hitlerism as a political

force is dead

the French daily Le popular edited by

eminent socialist Leon Bloom headlines

an article the end of Hitler

but no three months later Hindenburg

still facing the impossibility of

forming a majority

finally names Hitler chancellor of

Germany

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Berlin Sebastian huffner writes

I've just heard the news I'm Frozen with

Terror for an instant I can physically

smell blood and mud I see something

dangerous like the big dirty paw of a

predatory animal raking its claws over

my face

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to achieve his end the wolf disguises

himself as a lamb

Hitler reassures Hindenburg by asking

for only two ministerial portfolios for

the Nazis

the minister of the Interior would be a

Munich policeman named bilheim frick

with Airman Gering at his side also to

control the police two key positions

Hitler advances by subterfuge

his aim is to show that the most

important ministerial positions have

gone to a conservative

a former Chancellor

and to the strong man of the extreme

right

minister of the economy and agriculture

an aggressive and authoritarian

hardlining

Hitler calls his government the cabinet

of national concentration to make it

sound like a nationalist Coalition

rather than a predominantly Nazi

government

this very reactionary body believes it

can control Hitler

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Von Poppin makes a costly mistake when

he says to hugenberg

Hitler is our man

to which schugenberg replies we oversee

him

that very evening January 30th 1933 in

Berlin and all the other large German

cities Nobles organized as a Torchlight

parade at the steel helmet veteran the

SS and prominently the essay Storm

Troopers

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that a million people marched in the

parade but the British military had to

Shay estimates them at less than 15 000

Marchers made to go around in circles

for hours by Goebbels

they pass under the windows of the 85

year old president Hindenburg who

believing himself in Verda in 1916 says

to his Aid

our men are parading well they've taken

many prisoners

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Hitler the chancellor receives a frenzy

tribbled

Luis solnitz a Berlin school teacher

says

it was drunkenness without wine

she adds I heard people shouting death

to the Jews Jewish blood will gush under

the knife

gibbles concludes

it's like a fairy tale

Berlin Sports Palace Hitler delivers his

first speech as Chancellor

what is Hitler's plan absolute power but

by stages

there are still 200 Communists and

social Democrats in their hashtag

therefore Hitler's first move is to

dissolve parliament and call new

elections

his speech broadcast on radio is an

appeal to all voters even those on the

left

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foreign

take the wrong Steam on the owned by

companies

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with this relatively conciliatory speech

Hitler continues to advance wearing a

mask

gibbles however wants to clarify Matters

by returning to the fundamentals

anti-Semitism and violence for the Nazi

voter base

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foreign

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only two weeks later in Berlin the great

High stock the German Parliament

building burns down in the night

nothing remains of this powerful symbol

of German democracy

the investigation carried out by the

police undergoing incriminates a 24 year

old Dutch communist named marinus

Vanderloop suspected of a heavy record

of arson

quickly found guilty he is guillotined

who will profit from this crime

the Nazis

Hitler and Gary raised the Specter of a

red plot

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Gary has four thousand Communists

arrested including the leaders

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but the Communist party isn't outlawed

yet

for Hitler wishes to maintain the

appearance of legality for the

legislative elections which he expects

will consolidate his power

the Germans fed up with election

campaigns and disorder

see renewed action by the Stormtroopers

throughout the country

to protect the population from communist

attacks as the Nazis put it

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there are over a million Stormtroopers

now armed they have the status of

auxiliary police officers all over

Germany they take up positions in front

of the headquarters of leftist parties

and workers unions

again they will ferment violence while

Hitler continues to play The Electoral

card to reassure an increasingly

exhausted president Hindenburg

Gary menacing in his Gothic style

armchair fingering his dagger he gives

his doctored version of the election

outcome

foreign

in reality Hitler and his Coalition

barely win a majority

even with all his propaganda and the

intimidation by the essay Hitler hasn't

stopped the Communists from obtaining 12

percent of the votes

at this point Hitler tears off his mask

and enters the realm of illegality with

his government's complicity

he invalidates the election of the

Communist parliamentarians and has them

arrested and sent to the concentration

camps of Iranian Berg near Berlin and

dachane near Munich which have just been

set up by the Nazis

these are the first of the 16 camps that

opened in the year 1933 alone

the number of political prisoners Rises

to 100 000 during the first months of

the regime

communist student Klaus Bastian recalls

the guards whip the prisoners and pushed

us into freezing water we all was feared

for our lives night and day

the Nazi version is that these

parliamentarians senior civil servants

and union leaders are being re-educated

the baleful shadow of dictatorship

spreads over Germany

since the hashtag has burned Hitler

stages the new parliament in the Royal

opera house surrounded by the sa and

demands unlimited powers

the Communist members are gone most of

them to the camps the 94 social

Democrats who are still present will

summon the courage to vote against

Hitler

they too will be arrested and sent to

the case or forced to flee the country

441 members from the extreme right to

the Catholic Center listen to Hitler's

long rambling speech intended to bolster

the people's Illusions as always he

promises the Earth the end of

unemployment relief for peasant Farmers

respect for the law and above all peace

the assembly votes its own demise by

granting Hitler full powers for four

years

no longer can president Hindenburg

contest the Chancellor's decisions

sound of Cheers

democracy dies in Germany

the fact that Hitler whose power is

based on anti-Semitism now leads one of

the world's most advanced industrialized

countries is seen as a universal threat

foreign

all over the world anti-hiddler

demonstrations like this one in New York

protest against his barbarity

his obscurantism

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and his anti-semitism

all call for a worldwide boycott German

products

to dissuade them Hitler orders a

day-long boycott of jewish-owned stores

in Germany meant as a warning

good

an amateur filmmaker with the assistance

of his wife tests the determination of

the Nazis posted in front of

jewish-owned businesses

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Jews in Germany are horrified to see

essay posters that read

not a penny for Jewish capitalism by

German

and the Jews are the cause of our

downfall

it's the beginning of the persecution

Edwin Landau owner of a large store in

East Prussia writes before emigrating to

Palestine with his family

I changed completely in the space of a

few hours this country and this people

whom I had respected and loved until

then had suddenly become my enemies I

was no longer German or no longer had

the right to be German

I was ashamed of having once belonged to

that Nation I was ashamed of the trust I

had held in so many people who now

removed their masks to reveal themselves

as my enemies

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anti-Semitism had contaminated the

universities Nazism is perverting

people's minds turning them against

modern culture imposing an intolerant

sectarian ideology that will lead the

students themselves to burn books

with the help of school children and

directed by Stormtroopers all over the

country that gather works from libraries

bookstores and Publishing houses that

reflect what Hitler terms in ungerman

spirit

the Nazi Blacklist our authors Karl Marx

Sigmund Freud Stefan zweig and 300

others mainly Jewish or communist

writers

twelve thousand titles are condemned

hundreds of thousands of copies must be

burnt and the Stormtroopers prepare the

pyres

in a radio broadcast from Berlin's Opera

Square

gibbles reads out the sermon of the

black mass for an auto dafe straight out

of the Dark Ages

of leadership

Uber

not alone

is present at the autodesafe in the Nazi

ritual

her description of the scene the essay

and the students shouted out the book's

title and its author's name they stated

that the author was Jewish a pacifist a

feminist or simply a modernist they

would recite

we can sign you to the fire and withdraw

it into the flames

I was dumbfounded and deeply outraged

since we had read and discussed many of

the works that ended up in the fight

French socialist leader Leon Bloom wrote

what was needed in Germany was for the

Communists and the social Democrats to

fight together

thank you

but the social Democrats were unwilling

and as for the Communists Moscow had

given them their orders no alliance with

the social Democrats described as

socio-trators

Stalin's suicidal orders were a gift to

Hitler

Hitler suppressed the unions now on July

21 1933 he Outlaws the Social Democratic

Party

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foreign

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foreign

the German people for their part can go

on vacation

henceforth the Nazi party is the only

legal party

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it's anti-semitic slogans don't seem to

stir many people up they are largely

indifferent to the fate of their Jewish

compatriots who after all only number

500 000 less than one percent of the

population

German Jews would manage to emigrate

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Gerda Blackman remembers

we succeeded in embarking on the

condition of giving up everything we

owned

the poorer German Jews would be stuck in

Germany

reported to the Eastern ghettos then

exterminated in the camps

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opponents to the regime would flee if

they can anywhere they can

especially to France where they would

later be trapped by the German

occupation in the war and handed over to

the Nazis

many of those who cannot leave in time

or who choose to stay to carry on the

struggle would be captured and martyred

in the camps

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the vast majority of Germans would

accept the totalitarian regime

some would begin the day by hoisting the

swastika flag

Germany's official emblem

the others now that Hitler had muzzled

the Press would read only Nazi

newspapers

their daughters too would learn the

compulsory salute

their sons would enter the Hitler yugand

the Hitler youth movement which will

hone their aggressive tendencies

at school teachers would show pupils how

to handle weapons

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teachers would have to use down to earth

nazi-sanctioned examples in math class

such as how much does a pupil cost

a mentally handicapped young person

costs the state 1 800 marks a year the

average pupil 320 marks and a brilliant

pupil only 125 marks answer

Society can only survive if its citizens

are genetically sound

the older daughters would join the BDM

the Bund Deutsche medal the league of

German girls

trained girls to be good wives and to

Bear many little soldiers

these would be killed at 10 years of age

in the last combat actions in Berlin

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however the the Germans are unaware of

all this in the summer of 1933

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Hitler is not yet the unchallenged

supreme leader to achieve this he must

continue numbing the nation by his

propaganda

the film The victory of faith that

depicts the first Congress since the

taking of Power by the Nazi party now

the only party

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Hitler is well served by the talent of

the young director Lenny Riefenstahl who

charms him with her energy and beauty

with clever Framing and lighting

techniques she glorifies the new God of

a new Mystique a Mystique of race of the

leader of power and its Apostles like

the most loyal of the loyal Rudolf Hess

one of the writers of the anti-jewish

laws

like Joseph Goebbels under whom

propaganda has become an important

Ministry

like Airman Gary who will resuscitate

German Aviation

and like Aaron's time head of that

hoarder Fanatics the Stormtroopers

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nothing gives cars to suspect that this

film would be banned a year later

because Han even though he has been

Hitler's accomplice since the failed

Pooch of 1923 will be denounced as a

traitor

perhaps because he is too close to

Hitler or because the essay is too big

with 2 million members it is a force

that Rivals the army

Hitler to gain the Army's support will

bring them into line and eliminate harm

it all begins the next summer when

Hitler travels to Italy to meet

Mussolini in Venice

Hitler is impressed by his Elder

counterpart his role model

he's seeking Mussolini's approval for

his plan to Annex Austria

Mussolini refuses

he doesn't want Germans gathering on his

borders he doesn't warm to Hitler saying

he makes me think of a talkative Monk

he takes him on a tour of Venice

starting with his Battleship Fleet while

Hitler has no Naval Force

Hitler returns to Berlin mortified

he understands now that until he

rebuilds the Armed Forces he won't be

able to carry out his plans

but there goes to observe the maneuvers

of the heisphere the German Army reduced

by the Treaty of Versailles to 100 000

men few in number but very well trained

Hitler knows that two-wage war he needs

generals Admirals competent officers

strategists and trained specialists

he's always promised to free the army of

the straight jacket of Versailles and to

restore its troop and weapon strength

the generals want more in particular to

get rid of home

and his Stormtroopers who are in a

position to supplant the army

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is also harshly criticized for having

delusions of grandeur

steals the Limelight from Hitler

industrialists are worried by his

declaration that the National Socialist

Revolution is not over Gables says he's

a Bolshevik in disguise

thank you

they've been partners in crime for 15

years but Hitler's decision is firm

to eliminate home under the pretext that

he has planned a coup d'etat

Hitler chooses his executioners Himmler

head of the SS

head of the Gestapo

septi Trish a former butcher who heads

the furor's bodyguard

between June 30 and July 2nd 1934 a

period that Hitler calls the night of

the long nights

the SS murders hum and 85 other

potential opponents and embarrassing

Witnesses of Hitler's past

thank you

with harm gone the Stormtroopers lose

all their influence and are deployed

only to keep order

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the arm is satisfied as are the

industrial barriers and septi Trish is

promoted to SS General

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directs her next film Triumph of the

will on the Nazi party Congress of 1934

only black SS uniforms are seen marching

behind him

Hitler is now alone at the top of the

pyramid

a month after the night of the long

nights the last president of the

Republic Marshall Hindenburg dies at age

87.

democracy has been dead and buried for a

long time

totalitarianism continues its implacable

March

Hitler becomes commander of the Armed

Forces

power is absolute

all the soldiers must swear an oath of

loyalty to the fury our leader and the

leader of the German people Adolf Hitler

a Hitler

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Hitler attends the biohoid festival to

enjoy the music of Wagner his favorite

composer

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the composer's daughter-in-law vinifred

Wagner who supported him during his

difficult Beginnings welcomes him now as

master of Germany

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Hitler can now look back at how far he

has come he's achieved the demented

dream of his youth

to Incarnate re-envy his favorite

wagnerian hero who sacrifices himself

for his adoring people

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like Siegfried set sail on the North Sea

pursuing his fantasies accompanied by

those who created him but who can no

longer control what has become the Golem

the legendary creature of clay who

blinds human beings by his hellish power

Hitler will first appropriate the

successes of the Weimar Republic

such as the famous autobahns which will

become Showcases of the Nazi regime

Hitler will strike by passing the

Nuremberg race laws

all right

he will burn synagogues to the ground

and the Crystal knocked Pokemon

Prelude to the final solution

he'll violate the Treaty of their side

by reoccupying the demilitarized zones

of 1919.

the weakness shown by the lack of

reaction from France or England will

lead Mussolini to draw closer to Hitler

allowing him to Annex Austria

step in what he calls his mission

to integrate all the german-speaking

peoples into a greater Germany

he'll intervene in the bloody Spanish

Civil War sending his bombers to

annihilate the population of Guernica

Insurance victory for Franco's fascists

over the Spanish Republicans

he dreams of a great Army

like napoleons

one he will lead to Moscow

all the while proclaiming his desire for

peace

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thank you

the Germans drained by bombastic

speeches and showy demonstrations

will lose contact with reality

when Germany is ready Hitler obstinate

and ferocious will drag it and the world

with it into a long night

by the ghosts of over 50 million dead

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