A Day That Shook The World: Hitler elected German Chancellor

Sunday, 30 January 2011

On 30 January 1933 Adolf Hitler was elected Chancellor of Germany, heralding a reign of terror, the Holocaust and World War Two.
The Austrian-born leader of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP or ‘Nazi Party’), was to serve until his suicide in 1945.
Watch this British Pathé newsreel for film of the elections and the global response: [lásd a cikkben]

30th January 1933: Soldier and statesman President Paul von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg (1847 - 1934) handing over the rule of Germany to the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945).