[Cz-L] 30 January 1933: Machtergreifung - Seizure of Power

Czernowitzers…

Reading day by day the Czernowitz newspaper "Der Tag - The Day"

http://czernowitzdaily.blogspot.com/

covering the events seventy-eight years ago today, I cannot do otherwise but reminding you, that on 30 January 1933 Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor of Germany. We all know, that this historic event had a tremendous influence on the exsistence of a billion people, including our ancestors and last but not least affected indirectly the life of each and every one of us too. Therefore please have a look at the front page of the 1 February 1933 edition of "Der Tag - The Day", posted to our Ehpes.com Blog:

http://ehpes.com/blog1/2011/01/28/machtergreifung-seizure-of-power/

What was the perception and the prospect of Arnold Schwarz, the editor of "Der Tag - The Day"? He wrote: "As now Hitler became Chancellor of the Reich, will the world be out of joint and is Germany going to face a revoultion? Lead block weights are on Hitler's legs and brake mechanisms on his arms - such a government cannot be anything else but an experiment and that's, what it's going to be. He will not be able to put into practice the radicalism, that he has sermonized up to now."

That was the conventional wisdom worldwide at the time, from London to New York, from Paris to Tokyo. Everyone thought, that Hitler will be under the control of the conservative political circles in Germany. As early as a few months later it has been learned that a vital error of judgement happened.

Please read and commemorate!

FOOTNOTE: From page 2 of the same edition of "Der Tag - The Day" (i. e. 01.02.1933/2011) we learn, that Traian Popovici acted then as one of the defending lawyers for the 41 textile workers charged with so-called communist activities.

Edgar Hauster
Lent - The Netherlands

http://hauster.blogspot.com/

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