This week, we'll continue digging into the story of infamous Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, beginning where we left off last week with the Reichstag Fire, a suspicious incident that led to the destruction of democracy and withdrawal of civil liberties in Germany. As you'll see, once those civil liberties were gone, Hitler was free to do as he pleased and what "he pleased" happened to include a world war and the mass murders of millions. We'll examine how it all went down, how he was finally stopped, and assess the risk of another Hitler-like monster rising to power today.
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Sources:
- National WWII Museum "How did Adolf Hitler Happen?"
- History.com "Adolf Hitler"
- BBC "Adolf Hitler: Man and Monster"
- Time Magazine "Adolf Hitler: Man of the Year, 1938"
- The Atlantic "How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days"
- The Conversation "Understanding how Hitler became German helps us with modern-day extremists"
- The Atlantic "What the Press Got Wrong About Hitler"
- History Extra "Hitler's millionaire backers: how Germany's elite facilitated the rise of the Nazis"
- The Globalist "Trump and Hitler: How Accurate a Comparison?"
- Vanity Fair "Hitler's Doomed Angel"
- BBC "Hitler's Appointment as Chancellor, 1933"
- Wikipedia "Hitler Family"
- US Holocaust Memorial Museum "How and why did ordinary people across Europe contribute to the persecution of their Jewish neighbors
- Jewish Virtual Library "When Did the World Find Out About the Holocaust?"
- Smithsonian Magazine "The True Story of the Reichstag Power and the Nazi Rise to Power"
- US Holocaust Memorial Museum "The Reichstag Fire"
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