The National Socialists called it a miracle,
referring to the completely unexpected
transfer of power to Adolf Hitler by Paul von Hindenburg.
Unexpected because the National Socialists
had lost 2 million votes
in the previous Reichstag election,
so they were actually in decline.
And the Social-Democratic magazine “Vorwärts”,
the party organ, did not say
that it was a miracle, but rather a work of “Kamarilla”,
the favoritist network around Paul von Hindenburg
The front page read: “Either Gentleman rider Papen
or Fasching's Chancellor Hitler”.
And with that, so to speak,
the dilemma of the time was already drawn out.
What was now an alternative to the appointment of Adolf Hitler?
This could not have come from the left,
because for this the SPD
would have had to go together with the KPD.
But they were at enmity with each other.
Therefore, in the exhibition, we looked at an alternative
from the right, namely the right-wing military side,
a coup by the Reichswehr, which was in the air.
It was rumored that the Reichswehr might coup.
Under Kurt von Schleicher, the predecessor as chancellor,
and his highest soldier in the country,
the chief of the army command, Kurt von Hammerstein.
We know the discussions
that were held about this rumor,
and from these discussions we have
developed an audio image.
“Schleicher generally declares
that he will set the Potsdam garrison in motion
to arrest Oskar Hindenburg, Papen, and Hugenberg.”
We see the ministers still talking
before the pre-swearing-in ceremony.
And then the first pictures of Hitler's cabinet,
where the three National Socialists Hitler,
Goering and Frick are framed.
The first picture of Hitler is also
very interesting of him as chancellor.
He shows himself to be emphatically bourgeois,
thus supporting the narrative of a bourgeois government.