I'm John Bachelor with Tim Riebach. The book is Take Over Hitler's final rise to power.

Hitler Uber Deutschland.

Hitler has used an airplane before in the campaign against Hindenburg for the presidency earlier in the year of 32.

But now he hires another plane to fly around Germany and

Jim provides a quote let the battle begin. Hitler sees himself as a contesting for victory.

In four weeks he predicts on October 6 we will be victorious. What is that airplane

for? How does he campaign him?

Hitler was certainly the first German political figure to use an airplane,

possibly the first figure in Europe.

What happened was Hitler did not have access to radio the way other people could in reach noise

you basically banned from the airwaves. So he had to look for alternate ways of reaching the people.

I should also, and he also in the mainstream press, he was basically cut out, was not getting his message through. So he did a couple of things. He used whatever technology could. They produce these little vinyl records with Hitler giving speeches that were distributed by the tens of

thousands to get word out there. But most importantly, as you mentioned John, he leased a

Lufthans of passenger plane and he did this actually early in 1932 for the

presidential elections and he started instead of taking a train or taking a car and

visiting one or two places a day with an airplane he was visiting up to six locations a day and Hitler

crisscrossed Germany went to you know dozens and dozens of places, was landing,

their consum, landing in farmers fields

and walking into villages and meeting people.

And the truth is Hitler, it was Hitler's way of reaching. and the

meeting people and the truth is Hitler it was Hitler's way of reaching heartland Germany and was and this is really sort of the man of the people

you know he was in villages that most Berlin politicians had never even heard of.

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