ARE WE IN CRISIS? July 6, 2024 UPDATES as of July 18, 2024 Do we face a situation similar to what the German Weimar Republic faced in early 1933? That was the year the Adolph Hitler was appointed as Chancellor of Germany. Now, let's stipulate that Americans get confused about how Hitler came to power. Chancellors were not elected, so Hitler was not. President Hindenburg appointed him. The previous Chancellor, Von Papen, was already ruling under an emergency decree. A devoted right-wing nationalist himself, Von Papen convinced Hindenburg to appoint Hitler as Chancellor and Von Papen as Vice-Chancellor. Von Papen assured Hindenburg that he could control Hitler. Of course, he could not. Von Papen is one of the few high-level officials that survived both the Third Reich and the Nuremberg trials. But that does not make his moves in 1932 and 1933 any less cynical and it does not make him a "good guy.". He convinced an aging and possibly cognitively impaired Hindenburg to pu...
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