This is CBS I on the World with John Bachelor.

This is CBS I on the World.

This is CBS I on the World. I'm John Bachelor. It is August 13th, 1932. Berlin.

I welcome Timothy Radach. He's the author of a new book, Takeover, Hitler's Final Rise to Power.

Tim is the co-founder and director of the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation at the Hague.

He speaks to me from Berlin itself, and we're speaking of moments between August 13,

1932, and January 30, 1933, in which everything changes for Germany, for Europe, and I will

say for the century, the 20th century, and it's still underway the transformation of the maps and of

loyalties these many decades. Tim a very good evening to you thank you very much at good evening to you. Thank you very much. At that date, the Dow you report is at 41.22, its lowest ever.

Berlin is clear, a clear sky that day, and meeting are two men whose fate will be

intertwined forever. One is Paul Thund Hindenburg, the 84-year-old

statue-esque German military man who's become the president of the Reich, giving

him constitutional power to name and unnamed governments, to name and unnamed

chancellors. He's being introduced to a man,

Adolf Hitler, who believes he's about to be the new

Chancellor of Germany. And he says to Hitler at one point without sitting down are you

personally willing to place yourself at my disposal for participating in

the government question mark to which Adolf my disposal

to which Adolf Hitler answers nine.

Please interpret that sentence and that scene.

Why is Hitler there?

Why is Hindenburg offering and

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