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| | The Crucial Years 1931 - 1933 Part 2 |
 | | While he was congratulating himself on persuading the Nazi Party no.2, Gregor Strasser, to join the cabinet, together with the Nationalist leader, Hugenberg, Hitler was befriending the President's son, Oskar, and through him influencing the father. |
 | | Despite the assurances that Strasser and Hugenberg had both given to Hindenberg that they would work with Schleicher, in the end neither did join the Cabinet and Schleicher had only one card left to play. |
 | | He went to see Hindenburg on 23rd January, asking for the establishment of what amounted to a military dictatorship as he and, it appeared, no one else was able to form the coalition that was needed. |
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