Hitler's rise to power (encyclopedia.com)
To Germans burdened by reparations payments to the victors of World War I, and threatened by hyperinflation, political chaos, and a possible Communist takeover, Hitler,
frenzied yet magnetic, offered scapegoats and solutions. To the economically depressed he promised to despoil Jew financiers, to workers he promised security. He gained the financial support of bankers and industrialists
with his virulent anti-Communism...
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marcsucks needs to come back.
...but you weren't.
[Edited on Dec 21, 2003 4:39AM]