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| | How Hitler Became a Dictator (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | In the presidential election held on March 13, 1932, there were four candidates: the incumbent, Field Marshall Paul von Hindenburg, Hitler, and two minor candidates, Ernst Thaelmann and Theodore Duesterberg. |
 | | As long as a German citizen kept his head down, worked hard, took care of his family, sent his children to the public schools and the Hitler Youth organization, and, most important, didnt involve himself in political dissent against the government, a visit by the Gestapo was very unlikely. |
 | | The Nazi terror in the early years affected the lives of relatively few Germans and a newly arrived observer was somewhat surprised to see that the people of this country did not seem to feel that they were being cowed.... |
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