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The Non-Nazi Bastards Who Helped Hitler Rise To Power

Behind the Bastards

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The Trial of the Century

Hitler's trial became the trial of the century or it would have been if not for the Nuremberg trials to prosecute the Nazis. Judge Nighthart believed that political murder wasn't a serious crime if the victim was unpopular, which in his case meant left wing. The judge justified this by saying that Count Arco Valley had quote, "a glowing love of his people and fatherland" Hitler could court the sympathy of the German people by doing what he did best, giving long speeches.

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