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Slack.com slash DHQ. It's June the 14th, 1934. A large silver transport plane descends

from an azure sky. It banks out over the Adriatic before coming in low on its approach towards

the island's city of Venice. At the airfield of the Venice Lido, the plane touches down and

bounces along the grass. A glorious summer's day, one of the world's most spectacular locations,

a nice little excursion you'd have thought, but this is nothing of the sort. This is the

final part of Hitler's rise to power, and this is real dictators. As the plane taxies to

a halt, its passenger, Adolf Hitler, is in a deep dark funk. Despite his extensive aerial

election campaigning, he's still not a comfortable flyer that never helps his mood. Plus, his

host today, the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, has been overheard describing the new German

leader as a muddle-headed fool. But it's more than that. It's the sheer indignity of the

trip. Going cap in hand to another? This is something that just doesn't happen in the

Hitler universe. Since Germany's withdrawal from the League of Nations, the Nazi state

is fast becoming an international pariah. The old foes are getting flustered. Hitler can

play the gentleman only likes, sending a congratulatory telegram to the newly elected president

of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt. He can hold a convivial lunch with Britain's

League Minister, Anthony Eden, but he isn't kidding anyone. The American Jewish Congress,

amongst others, is flabbergasted at the direction this new Nazi Germany is taking. Adolf

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