269: Chancellor Hitler

Adolf Hitler stands at a window in the Reich Chancellery the evening of January 30, 1933, just after taking office, as a crowd on the street below cheers.

The year 1933 opened with Hitler and his Nazi Party seemingly no nearer to political power than they had been a year earlier.

But 89 years ago today, on January 30, 1933, after a few right-wing nationalist politicians struck a deal with Hitler, a coalition government took office with Hitler as chancellor.

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