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  1. ...Nor did he fully realize what an effective figurehead he was for the Nazis.”

    Excerpt From
    Hitler's First Hundred Days
    Peter Fritzsche

    #hitlersFirstHundredDays #peterFritzsche #books #gayleking #katyperry

  2. 4. "and, in the words of Zarah Leander’s popular 1942 song “I Know There Will Be a Miracle One Day,” was supposed to come to pass one more time after Germany had begun to lose the war. The common vocabulary is remarkable.”

    Excerpt From
    Hitler's First Hundred Days
    Peter Fritzsche

    So much like Trump, never apologize, I'm the only one to fix it.

    'The common vocabulary is remarkable.'

    #hitlersFirstHundredDays #peterfritzsche #books #pastisprologue #GOP #trump

  3. “The conspirators were not trying to solve a serious problem, the crisis in governance or finances; they were working hard to reach an ambitious ideological goal—to destroy the republic by any means necessary. It took a long, long time, when Germany was already in ruins, for conservatives to understand that they had made a pact with the devil in 1933.”

    Excerpt From
    Hitler's First Hundred Days
    Peter Fritzsche
    #hitlersFirstHundredDays #peterfritzsche #books #pastisprologue #GOP #trump

  4. 1932: “As the numbers of extremists grew, life seemed to diminish. “What was no longer to be found [..] was pleasure in life, amiability, fun, understanding, goodwill, generosity, and a sense of humor.”

    Excerpt From
    Hitler's First Hundred Days
    Peter Fritzsche
    p. 45 One

    #fascism #maga #learnfromthepast #hitlersFirstHundredDays #peterFritzsche #wwii #history #1930s #books #bookstodon

  5. “When Chancellor Heinrich Brüning’s government declared a long bank holiday on July 13, 1931, after a run on the banks following the collapse of the Darmstädter and Nationalbank, the economic crisis began to hit home. There was a “9% salary reduction” for civil servants [..] and higher value-added taxes for consumers"

    Excerpt From
    Hitler's First Hundred Days
    Peter Fritzsche

    #fascism #maga #learnfromthepast #hitlersFirstHundredDays #peterFritzsche #wwii #history #1930s #books #bookstodon

  6. “Do you remember,[..]that Döblin* said that time is a butcher and that all of us are running away from the butcher’s knife? Well that’s me, and that’s all of us. You too. I’ll run until I fall. But until I fall, I want to live.”

    *novelist Alfred Döblin, 1929 novel 'Berlin Alexanderplatz'

    Excerpt From
    Hitler's First Hundred Days
    Peter Fritzsche

    #fascism #maga #learnfromthepast #hitlersFirstHundredDays #peterFritzsche #wwii #history #berlin #1930s

  7. Isn't this interesting. During Hitler's rise 'the price of eggs'..“People bitch like lunatics but are Nazis nonetheless.” In this case, the sounds of hostility were not reliable indicators.”

    Excerpt From
    Hitler's First Hundred Days
    Peter Fritzsche

    #fascism #maga #learnfromthepast #hitlersFirstHundredDays #peterFritzsche #wwii #history