Jan 4, 1925: "The wild beast is checked. We can afford to loosen the chain."

[Dennis Donovan]

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Jan. 4, 1925: Two weeks after being paroled for the Beer Hall Putsch, Adolf Hitler meets Bavarian Premier Heinrich Held and pledges never again to try a coup. This will convince Held to lift a ban on the Nazi Party: "The wild beast is checked. We can afford to loosen the chain."

January 4, 2025 at 9:54 AM

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[SocialDemocrat61]

1. famous last words

[riversedge]

2. The wild Beast is about to hit #WeThePeople of the #USA!!

[sop]

3. So many obvious parallels here.

Heinrich Held and Merrick Garland come to mind.

[dalton99a]

4. History will not be kind to those who could have prevented the nightmare that is about to unfold

[aggiesal]

5. On Jan. 6th, 2029 we will see how unchecked the beast is. ...

Pendejo45 will no doubt have committed crimes against the country by then, so he will try another coup to stay out of jail.

[Joinfortmill]

6. Yup, how did that work out?

[tanyev]

7. Anonymous senior GOP official Nov. 10, 2020:

Speaking about President Trump’s and his legal team’s myriad and baseless claims of massive voter fraud, an anonymous senior Republican official offered a rhetorical shrug.

“What is the downside for humoring him for this little bit of time? No one seriously thinks the results will change,” the official said. “He went golfing this weekend. It’s not like he’s plotting how to prevent Joe Biden from taking power on Jan. 20. He’s tweeting about filing some lawsuits, those lawsuits will fail, then he’ll tweet some more about how the election was stolen, and then he’ll leave.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/11/10/whats-downside-humoring-him-gop-officials-unintentionally-revealing-quote-about-trump-era/

[dalton99a]

11. The "anonymous senior Republican official" knew about the plot.

[Texin]

8. Yeah, we all know how well that worked out for them.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. January 30, 1933: Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany by President of Germany

The worldwide Great Depression hit Germany in 1929, and by 1932 the unemployment rate had risen to 24%.[69] The Nazi Party led by Adolf Hitler became the largest party in the Reichstag after the election of July 1932, and President Hindenburg appointed Hitler chancellor on 30 January 1933.[70] After the Reichstag fire, a decree abrogated basic civil rights, and the first Nazi concentration camp opened.[71][72] On 23 March 1933, the Enabling Act gave Hitler unrestricted legislative power, overriding the constitution,[73] and marked the beginning of Nazi Germany. His government established a centralised totalitarian state, withdrew from the League of Nations, and dramatically increased the country's rearmament.

Papen was to serve as Vice-Chancellor in a majority conservative Cabinet – still falsely believing that he could "tame" Hitler.[100] Initially, Papen did speak out against some Nazi excesses. However, after narrowly escaping death in the Night of the Long Knives in 1934, he no longer dared criticise the regime and was sent off to Vienna as German ambassador.[101]

Both within Germany and abroad, there were initially few fears that Hitler could use his position to establish his later dictatorial single-party regime. Rather, the conservatives that helped to make him chancellor were convinced that they could control Hitler and "tame" the Nazi Party while setting the relevant impulses in the government themselves; foreign ambassadors played down worries by emphasizing that Hitler was "mediocre" if not a bad copy of Mussolini. German newspapers wrote that, without doubt, the Hitler-led government would try to fight its political enemies (the left-wing parties), but that it would be impossible to establish a dictatorship in Germany because there was "a barrier, over which violence cannot proceed" and because of the German nation being proud of "the freedom of speech and thought". Benno Reifenberg of the Frankfurter Zeitung wrote:[102]

It is a hopeless misjudgement to think that one could force a dictatorial regime upon the [German] nation. [...] The diversity of the German people calls for democracy.

[Swede]

10. Don't yet rejoice in his defeat, you men!

“If we could learn to look instead of gawking,
We'd see the horror in the heart of farce,
If only we could act instead of talking,
We wouldn't always end up on our arse.
This was the thing that nearly had us mastered;
Don't yet rejoice in his defeat, you men!
Although the world stood up and stopped the bastard,
The bitch that bore him is in heat again.”
― Bertolt Brecht, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui