1933: Triumph of Nazism:

From the book of J. Simonds “Hitler’s coming to power” (London, 1972):

“Having learned about the betrayal of Strasser, the Fuhrer fell into hysteria. He rushed about the hotel room, lying on the floor and even gnawing a carpet. After that, Goering said: "I knew that he was a vegetarian, but did not think that he was eating carpets." Having calmed down a little, Hitler said: "If the party breaks up, then it will end with one shot."

The president was decrepit. And the patriots are so vigorous ... Lyudmila Chernye recently read an article about Nazism in a solid newspaper. Quite sensible. Only the name was unpleasantly surprised. A phrase from the text “One Lonely Old Man rested on ...” was carried out in the headline. By the old man, the President of Germany Hindenburg was meant. The same Paul von Hindenburg, who on the fateful day of January 30, 1933 appointed Adolf Hitler's chancellor Adolf Hitler. Hindenburg was indeed an old man at that time - he was 86. And he did not like Hitler. Hindenburg, the whole country was a “old master”, Hindenburg called Hitler a “Bohemian corporal” and even said once that he would not appoint him the main postmaster. Some of the historians assures that the “old master” survived by Hitler by the time of his appointment, and someone is falling into his encirclement. However, neither the omnipotent chief of the presidential office of Meissner, nor the beloved son of the President Oscar, nor the favorite of Hindenburg Papen could utter a decisive word. He was said by Hindenburg. He stood at the window of his residence when the brown cohorts greeted the Fuhrer, marching along the streets of Berlin, and grinned: he believed that the honors were given to him ... Hindenburg was an ardent monarchist, and it was his fate that the guardian was chosen by the custodian of the young, still unexpected German democracy. This is equivalent to as if, for example, the fierce communist Namerek was chosen by the keeper of our society from the threat of revenge and totalitarianism. And if this communist had been instructed to bring to the end of the reform. Hindenburg and his entourage were also large landowners. And agriculture in Germany was chronically unprofitable, needed subsidies. These injections, to put it mildly, were "opaque." The elder and his team are confused ... but the point is not only in the elderly Hindenburg. The main thing is that at that time, the first slogan of the top of German society was patriotism (and in fact false -patriotism), embodied in the words "greatness and power of the German nation." The highest layers - from refined aristocrats to rootless capitalists, from officials to the president - dreamed of a victorious war, about the overseas colonies, about the "campaign to the east." The slogan "Drang Nah Osten" was invented long before Hitler. As history has shown, false patriotism, seasoned with pseudo -nationalism - a sense of its own exclusivity, chosenness - the disease is contagious. And in the middle layers of the German society, and part of the intelligentsia, and the marginals had no immunity to this overlap. When the thugs in brown uniforms marched along the streets of Germany, this impressed the townsfolk. The image of a purebred warrior-tedon, who is afraid of the whole world-a kind of hero, designed to restore order in his country and throughout the globe, has already settled in their heads. So Hitler gave rise to not so much the global economic crisis of 1929-1932. It was created by arrogance, dullness, unwillingness of change and wild fear of democracy, characteristic of a significant part of German society. And now a few words about another. It is a common opinion that Jews, Russians, Belarusians, and other peoples of Europe suffered from Nazism. And the Germans, they say, came out dry from the water. This is not at all. In concentration camps, not only “racially inferior” sat. All the opponents of Nazism got there: the Communists, the Social Democrats, the Catholics, the Protestants, the intellectuals, and the workers who retained conscience and dignity. Not to mention the fact that after 1945, Germany was lying in ruins, the rich people became a people of cripples and poor. His rulers and military leaders were judged in Nuremberg as criminal criminals. The whole country was occupied and divided, like a pie, into zones. And after the line, they erected a wall that stood for 28 years. The wall was demolished. But the heart of the peoples is something living, and the wounds on it heal slowly. The Germans, the “Ossi” and the Germans, “Wessi” still look at each other with distrust-pay for the sins of the fathers. Just like the world's best German universities are still paying for bonfires from 1933 books. Young people all over the world now prefer Harvard, Oxford or Cambridge. All distant consequences of Hitlerism cannot be listed. Nazism did not bring anything but grief, blood and tears. An amazing thing, but we have to repeat these prescriptions today ...

But the party did not break up. Hitler did not shoot himself. German generals and industrialists, frightened by the growth of the influence of the Communists, did everything to bring the Nazis leader to power.

Victory march

From the newspaper Berliner Taglatt on January 31, 1933:

“Yesterday at 11.15 in the morning, President Hindenburg accepted a group of leading politicians and entered into an agreement with them on the formation of the government. The Chancellor was appointed by the representative of the Nazis, Mr. Hitler. After the oath ceremony, the president made a question about the need to cooperate in the interests of the German people. ”

From the fascist newspaper "Volkisher Beobakhter" dated January 31, 1933:

“In the evening, 25 thousand attack aircraft and members of the Steel helmet organization celebrated the victory of a torch march in the center of Berlin. The impressive demonstration of patriotic unity was organized, under the applause of a huge crowd. When the fiery river flowed past the Reich Chancellery, the march participants welcomed the new chancellor from the balcony, with which the dreams and aspirations of all true Germans are associated. ”

From the book of J. Fest "Hitler" (Frankfurt, 1973):

“After the glee subsided and the echo of the marching columns submitted, Hitler started one of his endless monologues. He said that the Nevri, Color and the Mongols are already preparing under the leadership of the Bolsheviks to capture the whole world, but this day is the beginning of the "German racial revolution, the greatest in world history." Eskhatological visions interspersed with architectural projects: for starters, he thought, it is necessary to rebuild the imperial office, because it looks like a “vulgar box from under cigars”.

Orgiastic sense of community

From Hitler’s speech at the Berlin Sports Palace on February 10, 1933:

“I am convinced that the hour will come when the millions of those who hates us will stand up with us and will welcome together the new German Reich of Greatness and honor conquered by us.”

From the diary of Joseph Goebbels. Record of February 10, 1933:

“The Führer made an amazing speech with sharp attacks on Marxism in all its forms. The masses in the Sports Palace fell into crazy rapture - Hitler aroused an orgiastic sense of community in those who were firmly listening to him. The nation is given to us almost without a struggle. Only now the German revolution begins. ”

Arson. Concentration camp. Book of books ...

On the night of February 27, Germany was stirred by news of the arson of the Reichstag, which was committed by the Dutchman Van Der Lyubbe, excluded from the Communist Party for the “moral decomposition”. That night, 4 thousand communists were taken into custody. Two weeks later, the number of arrested reached 30 thousand, and a week later a concentration camp of Dachau for the "anti -German elements" opened in Bavaria. On May 10, the first bonfire from the books of the "non -Aryan" authors was lit in Berlin.

The president was decrepit. And patriots - so vigor ...

Lyudmila Black

Recently I read an article about Nazism in a solid newspaper. Quite sensible. Only the name was unpleasantly surprised. A phrase from the text “One Lonely Old Man rested on ...” was carried out in the headline. By the old man, the President of Germany Hindenburg was meant. The same Paul von Hindenburg, who on the fateful day of January 30, 1933 appointed Adolf Hitler's chancellor Adolf Hitler.

Hindenburg was indeed an old man at that time - he was 86. And he did not like Hitler. Hindenburg, the whole country was a “old master”, Hindenburg called Hitler a “Bohemian corporal” and even said once that he would not appoint him the main postmaster.

Some of the historians assures that the “old master” survived by Hitler by the time of his appointment, and someone is falling into his encirclement. However, neither the omnipotent chief of the presidential office of Meissner, nor the beloved son of the President Oscar, nor the favorite of Hindenburg Papen could utter a decisive word. He was said by Hindenburg. He stood at the window of his residence when the brown cohorts greeted the Fuhrer, marching along the streets of Berlin, and grinned: he believed that the honors were given to him ...

Gindenburg was an ardent monarchist, and it was his, in the evil irony of fate, he was chosen by the guardian of the young, not yet strewn with German democracy. This is equivalent to as if, for example, the fierce communist Namerek was chosen by the keeper of our society from the threat of revenge and totalitarianism. And if this communist had been instructed to bring to the end of the reform.

Hindenburg and his entourage were also large landowners. And agriculture in Germany was chronically unprofitable, needed subsidies. These injections, to put it mildly, were "opaque." The elder and his team got confused ...

But the point is not only in the elderly Hindenburg. The main thing is that at that time, the first slogan of the top of German society was patriotism (and in fact false -patriotism), embodied in the words "greatness and power of the German nation." The highest layers - from refined aristocrats to rootless capitalists, from officials to the president - dreamed of a victorious war, about the overseas colonies, about the "campaign to the east." The slogan "Drang Nah Osten" was invented long before Hitler. As history has shown, false patriotism, seasoned with pseudo -nationalism - a sense of its own exclusivity, chosenness - the disease is contagious. And in the middle layers of the German society, and part of the intelligentsia, and the marginals had no immunity to this overlap.

When the thugs in brown uniforms marched along the streets of Germany, this impressed the townsfolk. The image of a purebred warrior-tedon, who is afraid of the whole world-a kind of hero, designed to restore order in his country and throughout the globe, has already settled in their heads.

So Hitler gave rise to not so much the global economic crisis of 1929-1932. It was created by arrogance, dullness, unwillingness of change and wild fear of democracy, characteristic of a significant part of German society.

And now a few words about another.

It is a common opinion that Jews, Russians, Belarusians, and other peoples of Europe suffered from Nazism. And the Germans, they say, came out dry from the water. This is not at all. In concentration camps, not only “racially inferior” sat. All the opponents of Nazism got there: the Communists, the Social Democrats, the Catholics, the Protestants, the intellectuals, and the workers who retained conscience and dignity. Not to mention the fact that after 1945, Germany was lying in ruins, the rich people became a people of cripples and poor. His rulers and military leaders were judged in Nuremberg as criminal criminals. The whole country was occupied and divided, like a pie, into zones. And after the line, they erected a wall that stood for 28 years.

The wall was demolished. But the heart of the peoples is something living, and the wounds on it heal slowly. The Germans, the “Ossi” and the Germans, “Wessi” still look at each other with distrust-pay for the sins of the fathers. Just like the world's best German universities are still paying for bonfires from 1933 books. Young people all over the world now prefer Harvard, Oxford or Cambridge. All distant consequences of Hitlerism cannot be listed. Nazism did not bring anything but grief, blood and tears. An amazing thing, but we have to repeat these prescriptions today ...