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May 28, 2024

Understanding Hitler’s Rise to Power

Subversion and luck.

So often have political conversations cited the Nazis’ subversion of the democratic institutions of the Weimar Republic that “What if a Hitler comes along . . .” seems a standard challenge to any set of constitutional arrangements. Yet the story of how Adolf Hitler came to power is a complicated one, which Timothy Ryback tells in a new book called Takeover. Clare McHugh, in her review, writes that this book

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