“The 1932 presidential election offered the Nazis the chance to assume power legally since, as president of the republic, Hitler would be able to govern by emergency decree.”

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Hitler's First Hundred Days
Peter Fritzsche

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"We continue to circle around the events of 1933 because the rise of the Nazis exposed so many conflicting motivations about political and social behavior. And we are astonished to see people like ourselves in the galleries of the Third Reich.
[..]
The past also lives on because what was supposed to be behind us suddenly appears up ahead on the right.”
––Peter Fritzsche

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Hitler's First Hundred Days

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“Fascism represented just one form of the sacralization of politics in which a besieged in-group reaffirmed forgotten virtue and collective justice against dangerous outsiders. The effort to resist registered the extent of fascism’s advance. ”

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Hitler's First Hundred Days
Peter Fritzsche

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1933: “Today, as during the war, Germany is (alas!) once more the great international star who appears in every newspaper, in every cinema, fascinating the masses with a mixture of fear, incomprehension, and reluctant admiration laced with malicious joy at the trouble we are in. Germany is the great tragic, sinister, and dangerous action figure.”

Just like trump.

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Hitler's First Hundred Days
Peter Fritzsche

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“Again and again, the Nazis used the state of emergency to legitimize the dictatorship and create the conditions of the siege they claimed to protect the people from.”

“ “Theater, nothing else,” wrote one incredulous observer. ”

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Hitler's First Hundred Days
Peter Fritzsche

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