He came in on cat paws. (rise of Adolf Hitler) (U.S. News & World Report: 60th Anniversary) (Cover Story)

U.S. News & World Report | October 25, 1993| | Copyright

Quietly, almost unnoticed by a world sunk into the Great Depression, Germany on Jan. 30, 1933, was handed to a monster. Adolf Hitler arrived, not in jackboots at the head of his Nazi legions but on cat paws, creeping in the side door.

Two conservative politicians who had both been chancellor in the last months of the Weimar Republic--Franz von Papen and Gen. Kurt von Schleicher--schemed for power. Each sought to use Hitler; each was certain he could control him. Both were mistaken.

Hitler's National Socialist Party could not deliver Germany, though Nazi ...

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