Pretty much. The election didn’t produce a clear winner, chancellor Papen could not gather support to govern, so President Hindenburg offered the chancellorship to Hitler and let him try to form a government. Hitler then engineered an emergency (the Reichstag fire) and used that as pretext to suspend civil liberties and rule by cabinet decree.
The engineering an emergency is sounding terribly familiar now.
They were just looking for an excuse to leave. Any excuse.
They believe this provides them an exit from taking any action now, eventhough they had NO intention of following through in the first place.
Pretty much. The election didn’t produce a clear winner, chancellor Papen could not gather support to govern, so President Hindenburg offered the chancellorship to Hitler and let him try to form a government. Hitler then engineered an emergency (the Reichstag fire) and used that as pretext to suspend civil liberties and rule by cabinet decree.
The engineering an emergency is sounding terribly familiar now.
meanwhile Montreal cops literally wear red arm patches and target jews