German Chancellor
In 1932 he was so bold as to submit his name for the German presidential elections of 1932. Hindenburg was elected instead.
But a year later, with German politics immobilized by in-fighting among the traditional German parties, Hindenburg turned to Hitler and his Nazi Party to form a German coalition government. Hindenburg thought Hitler was a fool whose political following could be manipulated to advance his own political agenda. But Hitler proved to be surprisingly impossible to control. Indeed, as German Chancellor, Hitler was so bold as to suspend the German constitution of Weimar (not well supported in economically depressed, post-War Germany anyway). When the German parliamentary building, the Reichstag, was mysteriously burned, Hitler used this as an occasion to hunt out the "enemies" of Germany (meaning, his own personal enemies.) Then in 1934 Hitler, through his personal bodyguard, the SS, undertook a murderous purging of his own political ranks to......
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