This is CBSi on the world. I'm John Bachelor. Timothy Rybak is here. Take over as his book, Hitler's final rise to power.

It is August 30th, 1932. Hitler has refused to join a coalition. The Reichstag's still meeting a man

named Poppin is the Chancellor, but the Reichstag is destined to be dissolved. Remember Hindenburg has the power to appoint

chancelors and to dissolve the Reichstag and also to be a dictator, a one-man rule in between

if he wishes. But it's important to understand that Hindenburg has been in office a long time now. They asked him to stay after his first term and he stood against Hitler in the

spring of 32 and won by 5 million votes he's extremely popular but he no longer

goes to the office much he stays in his family grounds in Norbeck.

And on August 30th, he's not at the Reichstag in Berlin.

He's meeting with his lieutenants at his ancestral home.

At the Reichstag, however, there's drama underway,

not least because there is no majority.

And Tim, without a majority, the Reichstag is aware that it can't rule the country,

that it can't pass any legislation.

You have a list of how many times Hindenburgus had to use his power under the 48th article of the

Constitution to issue an order because the Reichsog can't resolve anything.

What is the general opinion at this point of Germany of the Reichstah that it's

unnecessary that it's broken that it can be fixed that democracy is ungainly?

We know Hitler hates democracy and wants to destroy it

and has said he'll destroy it with its own weapons.

What is the general opinion in Germany

of how democracy is working after replacing the monarchy?

Well, actually, the, for all the flaws of the Whitehall Constitution,

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