I'm John Dachshoo with Timothy Rybak. The book is takeover Hitler's final rise to power.

Again, Hitler has turned back, the Nazis are turned back.

Teringia, the vote that substitutes for polling

shows the NSDAP losing 25% of its previous vote in the previous election in November. the holidays, Remember these are these are hustling figures these are not world scale monsters

They have simple lives when they're not can conniving with each other. It's Christmas time and Hitler doesn't have a family. A little detail he gets a book from somebody as a gift.

There's no mention of a Christmas tree. Perhaps there is, perhaps his sister keeps one for him, but it's a man without a family. He's peculiar. No psychology here, he's peculiar. There's a vote in Lippi, which is a very small

state of 160,000 in the middle of January.

What is their hope, Tim?

Why do they throw their resources into Lippi?

What's happened?

Well, okay.

Their high water mark was 37% in the July elections. They take a hit of 2 million votes in the November elections.

John, you mentioned the Thuringia vote

where they lose 25% again.

So they are, not only are they losing votes. There's a break which tosser where they're hemorrhaging

membership of the party and most consequentially they are millions and millions of rights marks in debt.

I mean each they have run all these elections in the course of 1932.

One estimate put the Nazi party at 90 million rights marks in debt,

which would be hundreds of millions of dollars.

So the party was basically bankrupt, politically,

financially, and also ideologically with this with the split. You lit the vote,

Hitler wanted to finally break that 51% he didn't care where it was

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