I'm John Batchel with Tim Ryback. The book is Takeover, Hitler's final rise to power.

Hitler Uber Deutsche. 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 Tim provides a quote, let the battle begin.

Hitler sees himself as a contesting for victory.

In four weeks, he predicts on October 6th, we will be victorious.

What is that airplane for?

How does he campaign, Tim?

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

the people.

I should also mention 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 produced 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 Luftanz

a 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, there were a constant landing in farmer's fields and walking into villages and meeting

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