On Sep 28, 9:07*pm, RHF wrote:
On Sep 28, 7:36*pm, wrote:
- Mississippi weighs WETBACK proposal.
-http://www.clarionledger.com
-
- What the hell do they mean, weighs?
- WETBACKS ARE CRIMMINALS!
- They (''They'') are NOT immigrants either!
- cuhulin

Cuhulin,

Consider these four Points -wrt- Illegal Aliens :
*.
Illegal Immigration & Communicable Diseaseshttp://www.ehow.com/list_6587841_illegal-immigration-communicable-dis...
Higher Rates (2X) then the Host American Population
-hint- They Bring Diseases with them and Infect Americans
-result- Illegal Aliens are a Public Health Issue
*.
Illegal Immigration and Crimes Against Americanshttp://www.city-journal.org/html/14_1_the_illegal_alien.html
Higher Rates (2X) then the Host American Population
-hint- They Are Crimnals Fleeing Mexico and Commit
More of the same Crimes in the USA on Americans
-result- Illegal Aliens are a Public Safety Issue
*.
Illegal Aliens Murder 12 Americans Dailyhttp://www.wnd.com/?pageId=39031
America's Death Toll Overshadows Total U.S.
Soldiers Killed in Iraq and Afghanistan
-result- Illegal Aliens are a Major Crime Issue and
represent a greater threat to the Lives of US Citizens
then being in the Army in a War Zone
*.
One Out of Four Jobs Held by an Illegal Alien is
a Job an American Citizen Wants and Needshttp://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5312900
12 Millions Illegal Aliens are Costing American
Citizens 3 Million Jobs : That is as much as the
Obama Regime is now claiming to have save &
created by spending Billions of Tax Payer Dollars
in the Stimulus Package.
* That's 3 Million American Jobs and 3 Million
American Tax Payers -versus- 3 Million Jobs
Lost to Illegal Aliens and 3 Million Missing Tax
Payers who have Vanished off-the-books.
-result- Illegal Aliens are a Combined Jobs and
a Taxes Issue

just say no to illegal aliens ~ RHF
*.
*.

New Flash "Un-Date" ROTFL -in-spanish-

On Sep 29, 12:05*pm, bpnjensen wrote:
On Sep 29, 12:56*am, "D. Peter Maus" wrote:



On 9/29/10 24:17 , bpnjensen wrote:

On Sep 28, 9:07 pm, *wrote:
On Sep 28, 7:36 pm, wrote:
- Mississippi weighs WETBACK proposal.
-http://www.clarionledger.com
-
- What the hell do they mean, weighs?
- WETBACKS ARE CRIMMINALS!
- They (''They'') are NOT immigrants either!
- cuhulin

Cuhulin,

Consider these four Points -wrt- Illegal Aliens :
* .
Illegal Immigration& *Communicable Diseaseshttp://www.ehow.com/list_6587841_illegal-immigration-communicable-dis...
Higher Rates (2X) then the Host American Population
-hint- They Bring Diseases with them and Infect Americans
-result- Illegal Aliens are a Public Health Issue
* .
Illegal Immigration and Crimes Against Americanshttp://www.city-journal.org/html/14_1_the_illegal_alien.html
Higher Rates (2X) then the Host American Population
-hint- They Are Crimnals Fleeing Mexico and Commit
More of the same Crimes in the USA on Americans
-result- Illegal Aliens are a Public Safety Issue
* .
Illegal Aliens Murder 12 Americans Dailyhttp://www.wnd.com/?pageId=39031
America's Death Toll Overshadows Total U.S.
Soldiers Killed in Iraq and Afghanistan
-result- Illegal Aliens are a Major Crime Issue and
represent a greater threat to the Lives of US Citizens
then being in the Army in a War Zone
* .
One Out of Four Jobs Held by an Illegal Alien is
a Job an American Citizen Wants and Needshttp://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5312900
12 Millions Illegal Aliens are Costing American
Citizens 3 Million Jobs : That is as much as the
Obama Regime is now claiming to have save&
created by spending Billions of Tax Payer Dollars
in the Stimulus Package.
* That's 3 Million American Jobs and 3 Million
American Tax Payers -versus- 3 Million Jobs
Lost to Illegal Aliens and 3 Million Missing Tax
Payers who have Vanished off-the-books.
-result- Illegal Aliens are a Combined Jobs and
a Taxes Issue

just say no to illegal aliens ~ RHF
* .

For at least the last one, I have a perfect solution.

Start citing, fining and jailing the unpatriotic *******s who hire
illegals.

In fact, this one solution may substantially resolve all the rest.

* *That's part of the Arizona law. And one of the elements specifically
cited in the Federal suit against Arizona.

* *The truth is that there simply isn't the political will to address
this issue. If there were, it would have been solved, by now.

* *There are 536 individuals in this country with the power to make this
issue go away. Only 536. And it takes but 269 of them to get it done.
357, if the President isn't on board. Only 357.

* *And yet....

* *Only 357 people in all of the US could end the illegal immigration
issue tomorrow. Ironically, right around 536 sit in offices where they
were elected on the promise to do SOMETHING about illegal immigration.

* *This has been a hot button issue in the US for a couple of decades,
now. Despite the fact that far more than those 357 have run on the
promise to resolve the issue. Which underscores that illegal immigration
is far more politically useful as an issue than a solution.

* *You're right. Your suggestion is a perfect solution.

* *But it's clear that a solution is NOT the goal, here.

* *If it were, it would have been done.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -


- Speaking of which...this is just dandy...
-
- http://www.tmz.com/2010/09/29/meg-wh...-california-go...

BpnJ - You are stooping to a new low . . .
hello and welcome to my world ;;-}}

Oh Please would someone please exploit me
at $23 per Hours. ~ RHF

Again BpnJ Thank You -for- Proving Once Again
that Illegal Aliens are in-fact Taking Good Paying
$23 per Hour Jobs That Americans Want and Need.

If somebody loses a penny on the sidewalk/parking lot, or a dollar, I
will put in my pocket.I found it first.
cuhulin

On Sep 29, 2:18*pm, RHF wrote:
On Sep 29, 6:10*am, dave wrote:

wrote:
Mississippi weighs WETBACK proposal.
http://www.clarionledger.com

What the hell do they mean, weighs?
WETBACKS ARE CRIMMINALS!
They (''They'') are NOT immigrants either!
cuhulin

- They were here first. Like the Kurds and the Gypsies.

'Special Dave' you are such a little 'kurd'

now go 'gypsy' along ~ RHF

Idiots-R-Us : Consider These Four Points
-wrt- Illegal Alien Invaders from Mexicohttp://groups.google.com/group/rec.radio.shortwave/msg/5be3056359a4c2ca
*.
Idiots-R-Us : Mexican Politicians are Angered
that the USA is Sending Mexican Criminals
back home to Mexico {Deporting Criminals}http://groups.google.com/group/rec.r...9921d08ddb7804
*.
=WRT= LA RAZA and AZTLAN :
The Aztec were either Forced by Natural Circumstances
and/or Weather Conditions to Wander Away from Aztlan;
or Forced {War} by other Early American Native Peoples
to leave Aztlan. -Oops-Yes- La Raza Left and Abandoned
"Aztlan" long before Europeans came to the New World.http://groups.google..com/group/rec....d7fed57b08d587
? NO IS THAT TRUE ? -D-O--H-!- The first Spaniardhttp://ambergriscaye.com/pages/mayan/aztec.html
"Conquistadors" found and Conquered the The Aztecs
{La Raza} in Central Mexico : NOT in the USA or the
US South-West.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hern%C3%A1n_Cort%C3%A9s

oops - another inconvenient truth ~ RHF
*.
*.

Didn't some historians claim that nearly all amerindians originate in
Asia ? P.S. Long time ago 15-20 Kyears.

On Sep 30, 1:14*am, Chïna Blüe Öyster Cult
wrote:
=WRT= LA RAZA and AZTLAN :
The Aztec were either Forced by Natural Circumstances
and/or Weather Conditions to Wander Away from Aztlan;
or Forced {War} by other Early American Native Peoples
to leave Aztlan. -Oops-Yes- La Raza Left and Abandoned
"Aztlan" long before Europeans came to the New
World.http://groups.google.com/group/rec.r...dd7fed57b08d58
7
? NO IS THAT TRUE ? -D-O--H-!- The first
Spaniardhttp://ambergriscaye.com/pages/mayan/aztec.html
"Conquistadors" found and Conquered the The Aztecs
{La Raza} in Central Mexico : NOT in the USA or the
US South-West.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hern%C3%A1n_Cort%C3%A9s

oops - another inconvenient truth ~ RHF
*.
*.

Didn't some historians claim that nearly all amerindians originate in
Asia ? *P.S. Long time ago 15-20 Kyears.

Does anybody think the US is going to hand land back to Mexico just for the heck
of it?

Anywise...the Red Paint People continued from North America across the Atlantic
to settle on the British Isles. So while the Spanish may have been invaders of
the New World, the English were just coming home to meet the family.

--
Damn the living - It's a lovely life. * * * * * I'm whoever you want me to be.
Silver silverware - Where is the love? * * * At least I can stay in character.
Oval swimming pool - Where is the love? * *Annoying Usenet one post at a time.
Damn the living - It's a lovely life. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *Blessed be.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Red Paint People lived in New England and SE Canada. How could they
cross the Atlantic ocean ? Did the Atlanteans give them a ride in
exchange for some trinkets ?

On Sep 29, 9:32*pm, wrote:
On Sep 29, 2:18*pm, RHF wrote:



On Sep 29, 6:10*am, dave wrote:

wrote:
Mississippi weighs WETBACK proposal.
http://www.clarionledger.com

What the hell do they mean, weighs?
WETBACKS ARE CRIMMINALS!
They (''They'') are NOT immigrants either!
cuhulin

- They were here first. Like the Kurds and the Gypsies.

'Special Dave' you are such a little 'kurd'

now go 'gypsy' along ~ RHF

Idiots-R-Us : Consider These Four Points
-wrt- Illegal Alien Invaders from Mexicohttp://groups.google.com/group/rec.radio.shortwave/msg/5be3056359a4c2ca
*.
Idiots-R-Us : Mexican Politicians are Angered
that the USA is Sending Mexican Criminals
back home to Mexico {Deporting Criminals}http://groups.google.com/group/rec.r...9921d08ddb7804
*.
=WRT= LA RAZA and AZTLAN :
The Aztec were either Forced by Natural Circumstances
and/or Weather Conditions to Wander Away from Aztlan;
or Forced {War} by other Early American Native Peoples
to leave Aztlan. -Oops-Yes- La Raza Left and Abandoned
"Aztlan" long before Europeans came to the New World.http://groups.google.com/group/rec.r...d7fed57b08d587
? NO IS THAT TRUE ? -D-O--H-!- The first Spaniardhttp://ambergriscaye.com/pages/mayan/aztec.html
"Conquistadors" found and Conquered the The Aztecs
{La Raza} in Central Mexico : NOT in the USA or the
US South-West.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hern%C3%A1n_Cort%C3%A9s

oops - another inconvenient truth ~ RHF
*.
*.

Didn't some historians claim that nearly all amerindians originate in
Asia ? *P.S. Long time ago 15-20 Kyears.

Three Major Pre-Columbian Migrations into North
American Two from Asia and one from Europe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Columbian_era

The first migration from Asia was from ancestors
of the Ainu people now in northern Japan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ainu_people
http://news.softpedia.com/news/9-Ama...e-79277..shtml

NOTE - the Land-Bridge theory is countered by
the Coastal Migration theory resulting from
the Ice Ages & Lower Sea Levels & Exposed
Coastlines for travel by shore and boat.

On 10/2/2010 12:01 AM, Nickname unavailable wrote:
On Oct 1, 9:50 pm, RHF wrote:
Idiots-R-Us : Liberal-Fascist Media Turning Anti-Hispanic*

* Anti-Minority -If- The Minority Will Not Toe The
Liberal-Fascist {Progressive Agenda} Party Line

CNN Anchor Rick Sanchez FIRED By The CNN Network Fridayhttp://www.cnn.com/2010/US/10/01/cnn.sanchez/index.html?hpt=T2

Rick Sanchez is Cuban-American* {Hispanic}http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Sanchez
* Actually Born in Cuba

Was Rick Sanchez Factually Correct
-but- Politically Incorrect in his comments . . .http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...0-10-01_anchor...

Were Rick Sanchez comments about Jon Stewart
being an open in-your-face Bigot* with a well know
Public Bias : "a bigot" and then said that he was
bigoted against "everybody else who's not like him.http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/02/bu...html?src=busln

* About Jon Stewart being 'Jewish' or really about
Jon Stewart Being an Uber-Liberal-Fascist that
Daily Attacks Anyone and Everyone Who Is NOT !http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...qhY3jM5l3a5dDT...

About Jon Stewart on The Daily Showhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Stewart
-fwiw- Until today I did not know that Jon Stewart
is/was Jewish
-imho- Jon Stewart has always been a Media
Attack Dog directed at Young Viewers using
smears and half-truths to destroy anyone and
everyone who did not toe the Liberal-Fascist
Media Agenda.

? Do You Think {Feel} Jon Stewart is Liberal-Fascist
Media Attack Dog ?http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_1...34-503544.html

? Is Rick Sanchez 'Right' About Jon Stewart Being
Opening Bigot and Having a Liberal-Fascist Biases ?http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1010/43025.html

? Does Jon Stewart being Jewish Minority "Trump"
Rick Sanchez being a Hispanic Minority in the overall
scheme of things in the Liberal-Fascist Media ?

? Why Can Jon Stewart {a Jew} Get Away with Being
a Bigot and Biased Daily for Years On-the-Air ?
-but- ? Rick Sanchez {a Hispanic} Can NOT Be a
Bigot and Biased Once without Getting Fired ?
-or- ? ? ? If It Is Not Jew -versus- Hispanic ? ? ?
-then- ! ! ! It Must Be About "Liberal-Fascism" ! ! !
About the Liberal-Fascist Control of the Media and
Attacking All Those Who are NOT Liberal-Fascists.

THE BIG QUESTION : Is CNN Being Racist In
Firing Rick Sanchez ? : It Sure Do Look Like It !
-and-i-think-so- ~ RHF
.
For ME the Underlying Issue Is NOT Jews in
American being a small Minority 2%~3% and
Wielding a very Considerable Influence in
American Economic, Cultural, Intellectual and
Political Life; including the Mass Media ?http://ihr.org/leaflets/jewishlobby.shtml
Again for ME the Issue is NOT whether they are
Jewish {Cause Every Christian Has One Rabbi
and His Name Is Jesus : How Can I Hate Jews
If I Love Jesus} But Their Liberal-Fascist Politics
and Attack Tactics against all others.

=Translation= "NeoCons" = good, Good. GOOD !http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism
=&= 'Liberal-Fascist' = bad, Bad. BAD !http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Fascism
.
.
On Sep 29, 2:55 pm, RHF wrote:

On Sep 29, 12:05 pm, bpnjensen wrote:

On Sep 29, 12:56 am, "D. Peter Maus" wrote:

On 9/29/10 24:17 , bpnjensen wrote:

On Sep 28, 9:07 pm, wrote:
On Sep 28, 7:36 pm, wrote:
- Mississippi weighs WETBACK proposal.
-http://www.clarionledger.com
-
- What the hell do they mean, weighs?
- WETBACKS ARE CRIMMINALS!
- They (''They'') are NOT immigrants either!
- cuhulin

Cuhulin,

Consider these four Points -wrt- Illegal Aliens :
.
Illegal Immigration& Communicable Diseaseshttp://www.ehow.com/list_6587841_illegal-immigration-communicable-dis...
Higher Rates (2X) then the Host American Population
-hint- They Bring Diseases with them and Infect Americans
-result- Illegal Aliens are a Public Health Issue
.
Illegal Immigration and Crimes Against Americanshttp://www.city-journal.org/html/14_1_the_illegal_alien.html
Higher Rates (2X) then the Host American Population
-hint- They Are Crimnals Fleeing Mexico and Commit
More of the same Crimes in the USA on Americans
-result- Illegal Aliens are a Public Safety Issue
.
Illegal Aliens Murder 12 Americans Dailyhttp://www.wnd.com/?pageId=39031
America's Death Toll Overshadows Total U.S.
Soldiers Killed in Iraq and Afghanistan
-result- Illegal Aliens are a Major Crime Issue and
represent a greater threat to the Lives of US Citizens
then being in the Army in a War Zone
.
One Out of Four Jobs Held by an Illegal Alien is
a Job an American Citizen Wants and Needshttp://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5312900
12 Millions Illegal Aliens are Costing American
Citizens 3 Million Jobs : That is as much as the
Obama Regime is now claiming to have save&
created by spending Billions of Tax Payer Dollars
in the Stimulus Package.
* That's 3 Million American Jobs and 3 Million
American Tax Payers -versus- 3 Million Jobs
Lost to Illegal Aliens and 3 Million Missing Tax
Payers who have Vanished off-the-books.
-result- Illegal Aliens are a Combined Jobs and
a Taxes Issue

just say no to illegal aliens ~ RHF
.

For at least the last one, I have a perfect solution.

Start citing, fining and jailing the unpatriotic *******s who hire
illegals.

In fact, this one solution may substantially resolve all the rest.

That's part of the Arizona law. And one of the elements specifically
cited in the Federal suit against Arizona.

The truth is that there simply isn't the political will to address
this issue. If there were, it would have been solved, by now.

There are 536 individuals in this country with the power to make this
issue go away. Only 536. And it takes but 269 of them to get it done.
357, if the President isn't on board. Only 357.

And yet....

Only 357 people in all of the US could end the illegal immigration
issue tomorrow. Ironically, right around 536 sit in offices where they
were elected on the promise to do SOMETHING about illegal immigration.

This has been a hot button issue in the US for a couple of decades,
now. Despite the fact that far more than those 357 have run on the
promise to resolve the issue. Which underscores that illegal immigration
is far more politically useful as an issue than a solution.

You're right. Your suggestion is a perfect solution.

But it's clear that a solution is NOT the goal, here.

If it were, it would have been done.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

- Speaking of which...this is just dandy...
-
-http://www.tmz.com/2010/09/29/meg-whitman-gloria-allred-california-go...

BpnJ - You are stooping to a new low . . .
hello and welcome to my world ;;-}}

Oh Please would someone please exploit me
at $23 per Hours. ~ RHF

Again BpnJ Thank You -for- Proving Once Again
that Illegal Aliens are in-fact Taking Good Paying
$23 per Hour Jobs That Americans Want and Need.
.
Let The California Tax Payers and Voters Decide
Sentance MEG to Serve 4-Years Locked-Up in
Sacramento with a group of Hardened Career
Politicians -or- Set MEG Free to Spend All of
Her Money employing more poor people . . .
.
.
- An example of why the GOP uber-wealthy
- won't tackle the problem either despite the
- lip service they pay to it.

Sort of like the 'Detailed' Plan that Jerry Brown
has to Fix the Illegal Alien Problem . . . Oops
"JB" ain't got one; but promises to work with the
US Federal Government to "Fix Things" ROTFL
.
Please Remember That I Predicted : 12 AUG 2010
California Politics being what they are -imho-
Jerry Brown will be the next California Governor.
* California Über Alles {Jerry Brown}http://groups.google.com/group/rec.r...faca882fb518a0
.
Whether it is JERRY or MEG there is one thing the
next Governor of the State of California Brown must
do is DEMAND that each and every one of the
California Elected US Senators and US Congress
persons Demand that California get each and every
Dollar Pay by Californians in US Federal {IRS] Taxes
Returned to California in Federal Spending.http://groups.google.com/group/rec.r...faca882fb518a0
.
Idiots-R-Us : Consider These Four Points
-wrt- Illegal Alien Invaders from Mexicohttp://groups.google.com/group/rec.radio.shortwave/msg/5be3056359a4c2ca
.
Idiots-R-Us : Mexican Politicians are Angered
that the USA is Sending Mexican Criminals
back home to Mexico {Deporting Criminals}http://groups.google.com/group/rec.r...9921d08ddb7804
.
=WRT= LA RAZA and AZTLAN :
The Aztec were either Forced by Natural Circumstances
and/or Weather Conditions to Wander Away from Aztlan;
or Forced {War} by other Early American Native Peoples
to leave Aztlan. -Oops-Yes- La Raza Left and Abandoned
"Aztlan" long before Europeans came to the New World.http://groups.google.com/group/rec.r...d7fed57b08d587
? NO IS THAT TRUE ? -D-O--H-!- The first Spaniardhttp://ambergriscaye.com/pages/mayan/aztec.html
"Conquistadors" found and Conquered the The Aztecs
{La Raza} in Central Mexico : NOT in the USA or the
US South-West.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hern%C3%A1n_Cort%C3%A9s

oops - another inconvenient truth ~ RHF
.
.

it is impossible for liberals to be fascists. fascists hate liberals,
trade unionist, socialists, communists, jews(because most of them are

Fascists and Socialists kill themselves and each other.... the link
being they kill anyone, it is gets them one goose step closer to their
utopia.


liberal), the weak, the disabled, minorities, homosexuals. they are
intolerant of other views and religions. they practice bigotry,
racism, and homophobia, etc. say, i just described the modern
conservative movement

On Oct 2, 11:19Â*am, Beam Me Up Scotty Then-Destroy-
wrote:

The aristocrats and gentlemen of the Right who made up the majority of
Hitler's cabinet hated the concept of democracy even more than the
Nazis did, All over Germany, thugs in brown shirts took possession of
the streets and roughed up Communists, socialists, and Jews; they
chased socialist mayors and officials out of government buildings



http://www.buy.com/prod/hitler-and-h.../30426378.html





Chapter 1: Financing the 1933 Elections
On the cold winter weekend of January 28, 1933, Germany was officially
without a government. Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher and his cabinet
had resigned on Saturday afternoon, and eighty-six-year-old President
von Hindenburg had not yet appointed a new chancellor. A nervous
tension spread over Berlin. Everyone waited for news; most felt
Germany was at an historic turning point.
Who would be the next chancellor? Hitler - the leader of the largest
party, the Nazis, who pledged to destroy democracy? Papen - the
aristocratic horseman who had been chancellor before Schleicher, but
who had no popular following? Perhaps Schleicher again, if he could
persuade the Social Democrats, the second largest political party in
the country, to join him in a coalition? Governing Germany in the
middle of an economic depression with nine million unemployed was not
an enviable task. The country had just had three different chancellors
in rapid succession. By tradition, the leader of the largest party was
usually appointed chancellor. But the Nazis had been the largest party
for over a year, and so far intrigues and political maneuvering had
succeeded in keeping Hitler out of power. Everyone guessed what a
Hitler government would mean. He had not kept his militarism, anti-
Semitism, and dictatorial ambitions a secret.
Political intrigues were so numerous that weekend that no one really
knew what was going on. Sensational rumors were being spread
throughout the city. Some said an army coup was imminent, that
Schleicher and the generals were about to abduct President von
Hindenburg and declare martial law. There were also rumors of an armed
Nazi uprising and a general strike by the socialist workers.
Hitler and Hermann Goering, the second most powerful man in the Nazi
party, stayed up all night on Sunday, January 29, trying to figure out
what Hindenburg might do. It was not until after 10 A.M. on Monday
that Hitler received a summons to the president's office. Even at that
point, the Nazis were not certain whether Hitler would be appointed
chancellor or Hindenburg would ask him to serve as vice-chancellor.
Across the street from the Chancellery, in the Kaiserhof Hotel,
Hitler's lieutenants were waiting, unsure of what was going on.
Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda chief, said:

In the street the crowd stands waiting between the Kaiserhof and the
Chancellery. We are torn between doubt, hope, joy and despair. We have
been deceived too often to be able, wholeheartedly, to believe in the
great miracle. [S.A.] Chief of Staff Roehm stands at the window (with
binoculars) watching the door of the Chancellery from which the
Fuehrer [the leader, Hitler] must emerge. We shall be able to judge by
his face if the interview was a success. Torturing hours of waiting.
At last, a car draws up in front of the entrance. The crowd cheers.
They seem to feel that a great change is taking place....
A few moments later, he is with us. He says nothing. His eyes are full
of tears. It has come! The Fuehrer is appointed Chancellor. He has
already been sworn in by the President of the Reich. All of us are
dumb with emotion. Everyone clasps the Fuehrer's hand....Outside the
Kaiserhof, the masses are in a wild uproar....The thousands soon
become tens of thousands. Endless streams of people flood the
Wilhelmstrasse. We set to work...at once.
Hitler's victory was not a complete one by any means. He had been
appointed chancellor in a coalition government. Papen was to be his
vice-chancellor, and all the powerful cabinet posts were held by
Papen's conservative allies, rather than the Nazis. But at the moment,
Hitler's followers weren't worried about the details; for them the
only thing that mattered was that Hitler was chancellor. They had come
to power! All day, crowds gathered in the square outside the Kaiserhof
Hotel and the Chancellery.
At dusk Nazi storm troopers in their brown uniforms gathered in the
Tiergarten park, along with men of the Stahlhelm, an
ultranationalistic veterans' organization, for a torchlight victory
parade through the center of Berlin. As soon as it was dark, they came
marching by the thousands through the Brandenburg Gate, carrying
swastika flags and the black, white, and red flags of the German
empire. Bands marched between the units, beating their big drums as
the men sang old German military songs. But as each band came to the
Pariser Platz, where the French embassy was located, they stopped
whatever they were playing and, with an introductory roll of drums,
broke into the tune of the challenging war song "Victorious We Will
Crush the French."
The torches carried by the marchers glowed hypnotically in the
darkness. To foreign witnesses, it was a frightening sight. "The river
of fire flowed past the French Embassy," Ambassador François-Poncet
wrote, "whence, with heavy heart and filled with foreboding, I watched
this luminous wake." Liberal Germans found it an "ominous sight." It
was, wrote one German reporter, "a night of deadly menace, a nightmare
in...blazing torches."
As the marchers came by the Chancellery, there were tumultuous cheers
for Hitler, who stood in an open window saluting them. He was so
excited that night, he could hardly stand still. He was raising his
arm up and down heiling, smiling, and laughing so much, his eyes
filled with tears. "It was an extraordinary experience," recalled
Papen, who was standing behind Hitler. "The endless repetition of the
triumphal cry: 'Heil, Heil, Sieg Heil!' rang in my ears like a
tocsin." When Hitler turned to speak with Papen, his voice choked with
emotion. "What an immense task we have set for ourselves, Herr von
Papen - we must never part until our work is accomplished." Hitler and
Papen were much closer allies than anyone at the time imagined.
It was after midnight when the parade ended. Being too excited to
sleep, Hitler, Goering, Goebbels, and a few other Nazis sat up talking
for hours. They could hardly believe it had actually happened: they
were in the Chancellery at last. That evening, Hitler said to
Goebbels, "No one gets me out of here alive." It was one of the few
promises he kept.
On the morning of January 31, Hitler's storm troopers gave the German
people a glimpse of what Nazi rule would be like. All over Germany,
thugs in brown shirts took possession of the streets and roughed up
Communists, socialists, and Jews; they chased socialist mayors and
officials out of government buildings and even broke into the private
homes of their political enemies. When people complained to Papen, he
laughed. "Let the storm troopers have their fling." Among his friends
at the Herrenklub, an exclusive gentlemens club, he boasted: "We've
hired Hitler." To a skeptic he replied: "What do you want? I have
Hindenburg's confidence. Within two months we will have pushed Hitler
so far in the corner that he'll squeak."
The facts seemed to support Papen's optimism. Not only did Papen have
Hindenburg"s confidence, but in fact the old president had promised
never to receive Hitler unless he was accompanied by his vice-
chancellor. Papen also held the important post of minister-president
of Prussia, Germany's largest and most powerful state. From the
composition of the cabinet, it seemed all the real power was in the
hands of the conservatives: the aristocratic General von Blomberg was
minister of defense, Baron von Neurath, a career diplomat, was foreign
minister, and the old archreactionary Hugenberg was both minister of
economics and minister of agriculture. The Nazis were outnumbered six
to two.
The two Nazis in the cabinet, Wilhelm Frick and Goering, held posts
that were thought to be insignificant. Frick was minister of the
interior, but he did not control the police, which in Germany was
under the jurisdiction of the individual state governments. Goering
was made minister without portfolio, but with the promise that he
would be minister of aviation as soon as Germany had an air force. He
was also named minister of the interior of Prussia, an office that did
not receive much notice by the public but did control the Prussian
police.
The aristocrats and gentlemen of the Right who made up the majority of
Hitler's cabinet hated the concept of democracy even more than the
Nazis did. These men belonged to the old ruling class of the kaiser's
Germany. They wanted to regain their old position of supremacy, lost
in 1918. They wanted to restore the monarchy, suppress the socialist
unions, avenge the loss of World War I, and make Germany the dominant
power in Europe. It was obvious why such reactionary nationalists
helped put Hitler in power: their goals and his were very similar.
Few people knew the full extent of Papen's collaboration with Hitler.
Historians have said he "did more than anyone else outside the Nazi
party to help Hitler to power." Papen helped Hitler because he was
trying to control him and use the Nazis for his own aims.
Papen was a handsome aristocratic-looking man with distinguished gray
hair and an officer's mustache. From an impoverished family of the
Westphalian nobility, he became a General Staff officer, a skillful
horseman, and a man of great charm. After a successful marriage to the
daughter of a wealthy Saar industrialist, he bought a large block of
shares in the Center party's newspaper, Germania. For a short time in
1932, Papen was chancellor, but his government had no popular support.
Papen believed it would be rather easy for an aristocratic officer
like himself to manipulate a former corporal, like Hitler, and thus be
able to use the Nazi's mass following to accomplish the aims of the
upper-class conservative nationalists.
Hitler immediately began to outmaneuver his conservative colleagues.
He reported to the cabinet that the Center party was making impossible
demands and could not be counted on to form a coalition with the Nazis
and the Nationalists that would have a majority in the Reichstag.
Because of this situation, Hitler argued he would have to call for new
elections. The only "demand" the Center party made was that Hitler
promise to govern constitutionally, but none of the other members of
the cabinet bothered to check Hitler's statement. They agreed to new
elections on the condition that Hitler promise that the composition of
the cabinet would not change regardless of the outcome of the voting.
New elections would provide Hitler with a chance to improve on the
poor results the Nazis had received at the polls the past November. If
the Nazis won a clear majority in the elections, they might be able to
get rid of their coalition partners. Hitler had every reason to
believe the election campaign would be a big success. The entire
machinery of government, including the radio, was now under Nazi
control and could be used for campaigning. The party had been flooded
with new applicants for membership since he had become chancellor. In
the cabinet meeting on February 2, Hitler discussed his preparations
for the elections. Wilhelm Frick, the Nazi minister of the interior,
proposed that the government set aside a million marks for the
election campaign. Count von Schwerin von Krosigk, the minister of
finance, rejected this suggestion. Hitler did not force the issue. He
would have to get the money elsewhere.
The theme of the Nazi election campaign was to be the fight against
communism. Hitler opened the attack in a late-night radio broadcast to
the nation on February 1. He blamed the hard times Germany had gone
through since 1918 on the Social Democrats, which had been the largest
party in the Reichstag during most of those years. The Social
Democrats, he reminded his listeners, were actually a Marxist party.
"Fourteen years of Marxism," he said, "have ruined Germany; one year
of bolshevism [communism] would destroy her. The richest and fairest
territories of the world would be turned into a smoking heap of ruins.
Even the sufferings of the last decade and a half could not be
compared to the misery of a Europe in the heart of which the red flag
of destruction has been hoisted." He went on to promise to put the
unemployed back to work and save the peasants from bankruptcy.

On his fourth day in office, just after opening the election
campaign, Hitler took time off to attend a very important dinner. He
had been invited to the home of General von Hammerstein, chief of
staff of the army, to meet the leading officers of the army and navy.
In a speech that lasted almost two hours, Hitler explained his plans
for rebuilding German military power.
The generals were the real power in Germany during the Weimar period.
After World War II, many Germans tried to cover up the role certain
members of the Officer Corps had played in helping to put Hitler in
power. Many historians naively accepted this view, but the real story
is quite different. Traditionally, the German Army ruled from behind
the scenes and had the final "power to veto" any important issue.
After the loss of World War I, the Versailles Treaty severely
restricted the size of the German Army. The only way the generals
could maintain mass training and develop new weapons was to finance
private paramilitary units, like the Free Corps, with secret army
funds.
Hitler not only began his career as an army agent, but even in the
1930s he was supported by a powerful faction in the army. Over several
years, General von Schleicher, who was in charge of a secret informal
political department of the army, funneled over ten million marks to
Hitler. Why? Many military officers wanted an authoritarian government
that could unify the nation. The people needed to be infused with a
new spirit of patriotism because powerful interests were planning a
war of revenge against the Allies. Naturally there was a division of
opinion among the generals as to how much power to give Hitler.
Hindenburg originally had strong reservations about appointing a man
from a lower-class background, like Hitler, chancellor. However, the
aggressive action the Nazis took against Communists was admired by
Hindenburg, and his relationship with Hitler rapidly improved.
One day, Hindenburg summoned Hitler when Papen was away from Berlin.
Hitler informed the president that Papen was out of town and reminded
him of the rule he (Hindenburg) had made, that the chancellor could
visit him only when accompanied by the vice-chancellor. "The old
gentleman [Hindenburg]," said Hitler, "replied that he wished to see
me alone, and that in the future the presence of Papen could be
regarded as unnecessary. Within three weeks, he had progressed so far
that his attitude towards me became affectionate and paternal. Talking
of the elections fixed for the 3rd of March, he said, 'What are we
going to do if you fail to get a majority? We shall have the same
difficulties all over again.'"
At the beginning of the election campaign, Hitler and Papen persuaded
old President von Hindenburg to sign an emergency decree to protect
law and order. The decree gave Nazi officials the right to prohibit
public meetings. Newspapers could be suppressed if they "incited"
civil disobedience or published "false" reports.