On January 24 1933, a cartoon appeared in a German newspaper showing Adolf Hitler standing in the graveyard of his failed political movement. He was depicted as a Hamlet figure, holding and gazing at his own skull among a forest of swastika-shaped gravestones.If only!The non-Nazi wishful thinkers of had managed to convince themselves that the danger had passed. In spite of Hitler having travelled 40,000 miles by air during the recent election campaign, showing off all his oratorical tricks in crowded halls across the country, his National Socialist party hadn’t got near to achieving the necessary 51 per cent of the national vote for a parliamentary majority.
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