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« Last post by goatprairie on Today at 04:33:35 pm »That was the logic used by those who agreed to support him early on. They figured people would never support a kook like that, so he could be easily managed. And even when he became Chancellor, he didn't have majority support and the others who agree to support him figured enough people wouldn't take him seriously. The Enabling Acts that were passed in 1933, and that gave him the power to become dictator, came when he only had the support of a third of the voters. But the rest again figured that he could be controlled, so they agreed to give him that power.If you've read bios of Hitler, it was startling to discover how many times he escaped death from various sources beginning with WWI.
And that was it.
There were people in the German army who wanted to get rid of him before WWII but somehow their plans got botched. He escaped a bomb attempt before the war as well as the one that should have killed him in 1944. Other assassination plots were foiled by bad luck or circumstances. During the beerhall putsch of 1923 on the march in Munich, Nazis to the right and left of Hitler were shot and killed by the police. Goering took a bullet in the thigh that bothered him for the res to his life.
Just imagine if the English soldier who had an unarmed, dazed Hitler in his sights after a battle in late 1918 hadn't felt pity on him and instead pulled the trigger how different history would have turned out.
