The Rise of the Fourth Reich - ThereAreNoSunglasses

A NEW REICH BEGINS 21and, when he had served his purpose, was deliberately sabotaged and castaside.” The forceful Hitler, armed with adequate funds, quickly gainedcontrol of the German Workers Party, which soon claimed three thousandmembers. In April 1920, Hitler changed the party’s name to theNationalsozialistiche Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, the National Socialist GermanWorkers Party, abbreviated to Nazi.Following an ill-fated attempt to take control of the government in1923, known as the Beer-hall Putsch, Hitler and his lieutenants were imprisonedand the Nazi Party languished. Upon his release after only ninemonths, Hitler began to direct the Nazi Party into more effective, and legal,activities, which resulted in the Nazis becoming the largest politicalparty in Germany by July 1932.It was, in fact, wealthy businessmen in Western industrial and bankingcircles who guaranteed Hitler’s success. After Hitler lost a popular electionto Hindenburg in 1932, thirty-nine business leaders, with familiarnames like Krupp, Siemens, Thyssen, and Bosch, signed a petition urgingthe aged president Paul von Hindenburg to name Hitler chancellor. InJanuary 1933, through a compromise with German aristocrats, industrialists,and army officers, brokered by banker Baron Kurt Freiherr vonSchroeder, Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany. The deal to nameHitler chancellor of Germany was cut at von Schroeder’s home on January4, 1933. On hand were prominent industrialists, at least one directorof the giant Deutsche Bank as well as I. G. Farben’s Hermann Schmitzand Dr. Georg von Schnitzler representing Farben’s board of directors.According to author Eustace Mullins, also attending this meeting wereJohn Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles of the New York law firm Sullivanand Cromwell, which represented the Schroeder bank. This claim hasbeen disputed by other researchers.At that time, Germany was a free republic with one of the most educatedand cultured populations in the world. The country was at peaceand enjoying a blossoming of democratic freedom under a coalition governmentof the Weimar Republic.Oddly, Hitler went against tradition by choosing not to work out of anoffice in the German Reichstag, or parliament building, and on February27, 1933, the Reichstag was gutted by fire. In those slower, gentler times,