By then Hitler no longer needed either Hugenberg’s corporate contacts or his Reichstag delegates. The bankers and industrialists who had once shunned the crass, divisive, right-wing extremist had gradually come to embrace him as a bulwark against the pro-union Social Democrats and the virulently anti-capitalist Communists.
Six months earlier, three weeks before Hitler’s appointment as chancellor, the banker Kurt Baron von Schröder had met with Hitler at Schröder’s villa in a fashionable quarter of Cologne. The arrangements were cloak-and-dagger: Hitler made an unscheduled, early-morning exit from a train in Bonn, entered a hotel, ate a quick breakfast, then departed in a waiting car with curtained rear windows to be driven to the Schröder villa while a decoy vehicle drove in the opposite direction.
Hitler walked out of the meeting with a 30 million reichsmark credit line that saved his political movement from bankruptcy. Once Hitler was in power, there was no longer need for secrecy or subterfuge.
…this is quite literally the community about history. If you don’t care, you are not obliged to participate :)
Those are more current events, so not really the place for that
woa woa. My comment was not meant to be dismissive or to argue against you posting. Sorry if it seemed that way. Was more my way of saying its not an isolated thing and its so surprising the folks that will support these guys and not be knowledgeable enough to know its a bad move.
Oh I see then, thanks for the explanation. I’m not great at understanding the tone of online comments so now I understand better what you meant! Indeed there would be countless other examples throughout history of similar events :)
I mean your likely fine. Online is incredibly hard because its text and you don’t know the person. When talking its so often a friend or at least someone from your area so the way of talking might be more similar. I think of the southern bless your heart thing. Im pretty sure that was a sincere thing a few decades ago but not its considered some sort of backhanded compliment. folks are wierd.