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1930 election shaped Nazi rise

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German writer Philipp Ruch argued in a new book that the 1930 election was more pivotal to the Nazis’ rise than later events in 1932 and 1933.

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Amateurish, lazy, incompetent.
Remind you of anyone?
And yet they caused 50 million deaths.

86 EVERY REPUBLICAN this November.
‘Hitler was a lazy criminal who slept in until noon’: why most of what we think we know about the rise of the Nazis is wrong
In a new book, German artist and writer Philipp Ruch argues that viewing the ascent of Hitler’s NSDAP through the prism of the Third Reich has distorted our understanding of fascism’s electoral breakt...
www.theguardian.com
October 1, 2026 at 11:40 AM
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