Crowds welcome Adolf Hitler at Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport in 1934. By Tim Bouverie On the evening of January 30, 1933, hundreds of storm troopers paraded by torchlight through Berlin to mark the appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany. The “jubilation,” recalled a supporter named Günter Loshe, “was spontaneous.” At long last, “a man was trying to clean up the stables.” The old, establishment politicians had failed. People said: “He is going to push reforms throug...
