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The Non-Nazi Bastards Who Helped Hitler Rise To Power

Behind the Bastards

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Schleicher's Vote of No Confidence Against Brening

Schleicher engineered a vote of no confidence against Chancellor Brening. The Nazis and the communists backed him on this because they don't like the government anyway. In reality, Schleicher just wanted Brening out of power as he got in the way of his dreams of assembling a right-wing coalition. On the day Brening resigned, Joseph Gerbels wrote in his diary, with that, the system has fallen.

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