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The National Socialists called it a miracle,

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referring to the completely unexpected

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transfer of power to Adolf Hitler by Paul von Hindenburg.

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Unexpected because the National Socialists

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had lost 2 million votes

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in the previous Reichstag election,

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so they were actually in decline.

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And the Social-Democratic magazine “Vorwärts”,

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the party organ, did not say

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that it was a miracle, but rather a work of “Kamarilla”,

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the favoritist network around Paul von Hindenburg

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The front page read: “Either Gentleman rider Papen

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or Fasching's Chancellor Hitler”.

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And with that, so to speak,

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the dilemma of the time was already drawn out.

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What was now an alternative to the appointment of Adolf Hitler?

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This could not have come from the left,

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because for this the SPD

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would have had to go together with the KPD.

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But they were at enmity with each other.

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Therefore, in the exhibition, we looked at an alternative

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from the right, namely the right-wing military side,

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a coup by the Reichswehr, which was in the air.

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It was rumored that the Reichswehr might coup.

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Under Kurt von Schleicher, the predecessor as chancellor,

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and his highest soldier in the country,

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the chief of the army command, Kurt von Hammerstein.

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We know the discussions

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that were held about this rumor,

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and from these discussions we have

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developed an audio image.

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“Schleicher generally declares

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that he will set the Potsdam garrison in motion

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to arrest Oskar Hindenburg, Papen, and Hugenberg.”

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We see the ministers still talking

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before the pre-swearing-in ceremony.

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And then the first pictures of Hitler's cabinet,

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where the three National Socialists Hitler,

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Goering and Frick are framed.

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The first picture of Hitler is also

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very interesting of him as chancellor.

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He shows himself to be emphatically bourgeois,

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thus supporting the narrative of a bourgeois government.