I'm John Bachelor with Tim Riebach who's done us the great favor of filling in a blank in my reading

after a lifetime of reading about these moments when the monsters themselves were created

by conditions coming from the Versailles Treaty and the failure of the markets

in the 1920s.

We're now January 30th on Wilhelm Strassa and Hindenburg is sent for Hitler. It's 940 in the morning. Tim is very detailed about this.

When Hitler's Mercedes calls for him to take him to the meeting with Hindenburg.

Hitler believes that he will now be made Chancellor.

However, he needs a majority and he doesn't have it.

So he needs a man named Hooganburg and we talked about before. And

Hooganburg is aware that he has to be part of this coalition and defer in

some fashion to Hitler, but he's reluctant. Tim, this is a scene that you want to rewrite many times.

What is Hoogenburg's thinking that morning? Can he keep this from happening?

Does he want more for joining the coalition? What are his thoughts?

Well, Huguendag has what he has his entire career to be part of government.

He sees himself as the potential being minister of economics. He's a businessman.

It's a tremendous opportunity

he also knows that he is

he has the he's the one man with the power

to make or break out of Hitler at that moment.

Why?

He, in the November 6th election,

he ended up with a million votes that Hitler had lost, which means Hoogneberg had 40 seats in the Reichside.

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