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Article: HITLER'S RUTHLESS REIGN BEGINS THE NAZI LEADER CRUSHES HIS POLITICAL OPPOSITION AND BEGINS PERSECUTING JEWS.(OUR MILLENNIUM)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- June 27, 1999
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Byline: JOHN-HENRY DOUCETTE, STAFF WRITER
HE WAS HIS MOTHER'S SON, a disapointed artist, a soldier, a political radical whose gift for fiery oratory helped carry extreme views to prominence, from which his quest for power and racial purity would eventually scar the world.
Some would say the true Adolf Hitler was born in the fire that burned the German legislative assembly, or Reichstag, building in Berlin on a February night in 1933.
The previous year, Paul von Hindenburg, the World War I general, had defeated Hitler by 6 million votes in presidential elections; yet the National Socialist (Nazi) Party gained power in the Reichstag elections ...