The Roots of National Socialism and Germany's Reckoning with its Past

Popular Sentiment: "At least Hitler isn't a Communist . . ."

Hitler's National Socialist party (NSDAP) did not win a clear majority in the 1932 presidential election, but he was nonetheless appointed Chancellor of Germany by Paul von Hindenburg in 1933. Many groups in Germany (industrialists, clergy, political elites, cultural conservatives, small businesspeople, and farmers) initially were relieved at his appointment, believing that Hitler would protect them against the stirrings of Communism in the country.

--> And here is another link with Spain: as we have heard this morning from Professor Tadrissi, the situation in Spain leading up to the Spanish civil war mirrored that of Germany at the time of Hitler's appointment as Chancellor: clergy, aristocrats, the army, and other elites opposed the brief era of democracy in the Second Republic (1931-36). 

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