German general staff officer, politician, diplomat, nobleman and Chancellor of Germany (1879–1969)
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The aristocrat who thought he could control Hitler. Papen engineered the deal that made the Nazi leader chancellor in 1933, certain the radical could be managed from within — then watched his own allies murdered and his office ransacked a year later.
Born into Westphalian Catholic nobility in 1879, Papen trained as a Prussian General Staff officer and spent 1913 to 1915 as a military attaché in Mexico and the United States, covertly organizing sabotage and financing Mexican forces until expelled as persona non grata. After battalion command on the Western Front, he became Weimar chancellor in 1932 under President Hindenburg, ruling by decree and launching a coup against Prussia's Social Democratic government before losing Reichstag support. Determined to reclaim power, he convinced Hindenburg in 1933 that Hitler could be controlled in a co…
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But Hitler didn't strive for the annihilation of the Jews - he stressed that fact in public life and in the newspapers.
Himmler hated the church. He and Bormann were the two people who influenced Hitler most.
The hope in the hearts of millions of national socialists can be fulfilled only by an authoritarian government.
Names and individuals are unimportant when Germany's final fate is at stake.
It is to be hoped that the leaders of this movement will place the nation above the party.
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