Hitler’s Rise: The Colour Films

Hitler's Rise: The Colour Films follow the Führer's rise to power, which was as unforeseeable as it was catastrophic.
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Adolf Hitler: Germany Marks 80 Years Since Nazi Leader's Rise To Power
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Berlin today commemorates Adolf Hitler's rise to power 80 years ago, with exhibitions exploring what Chancellor Angela Merkel has called Germany's "everlasting responsibility" for crimes committed by the Nazis.

In a black-and-white photo, visitors can make out the Fuehrer saluting the crowd from the chancellery window on the evening of January 30, 1933, after earlier having been made chancellor and been charged by president Paul von Hindenburg with forming a new government.

The picture is on display at "Berlin 1933. On the Path to Dictatorship", due to be opened by Mrs Merkel in the German capital on Wednesday, on a site charged with history as the former headquarters of the Gestapo, the secret police of the Nazi regime.

It now houses The Topography of Terror [D], an open-air documentation centre whose exhibition will trace Hitler's first months in power through photos, newspapers and posters.

"The hour has come! We are at Wilhelmstrasse (the site of the chancellery at the time). Hitler is chancellor of the Reich. Like in a fairytale," wrote Joseph Goebbels, who was to become Nazi propaganda chief, in his diary on January 31, 1933.

Posters go on to show images of the Reichstag going up in flames the following month and then the first measures taken against the Jews on April 1, with the start of a boycott of Jewish shops, doctors and lawyers. » | Wednesday, January 30, 2013

SALZBURGER NACHRICHTEN: Vor 80 Jahren kam Hitler in Deutschland an die Macht: Adolf Hitlers Aufstieg zur absoluten Macht beginnt vor 80 Jahren: Am 30. Jänner 1933 wird der verkrachte Kunststudent aus dem oberösterreichischen Braunau und Anführer der Nationalsozialisten Reichskanzler in Berlin. » | Von Sn, Dpa | Mittwoch, 30. Januar 2013

SUEDDEUTSCHE.DE: Nazionalsozialismus: Wie Hitler an die Macht kam » | Mittwoch, 30. Januar 2013
N-TV MEDIATHEK: Der Weg in die Diktatur, Hitler und das Jahr 1933: Wie die Nazis Deutschland eroberten »

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How Bush's Grandfather Helped Hitler's Rise to Power
THE GUARDIAN: Rumours of a link between the US first family and the Nazi war machine have circulated for decades. Now the Guardian can reveal how repercussions of events that culminated in action under the Trading with the Enemy Act are still being felt by today's president

George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany.

The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism.

His business dealings, which continued until his company's assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush family by two former slave labourers at Auschwitz and to a hum of pre-election controversy.

The evidence has also prompted one former US Nazi war crimes prosecutor to argue that the late senator's action should have been grounds for prosecution for giving aid and comfort to the enemy.

The debate over Prescott Bush's behaviour has been bubbling under the surface for some time. There has been a steady internet chatter about the "Bush/Nazi" connection, much of it inaccurate and unfair. But the new documents, many of which were only declassified last year, show that even after America had entered the war and when there was already significant information about the Nazis' plans and policies, he worked for and profited from companies closely involved with the very German businesses that financed Hitler's rise to power. It has also been suggested that the money he made from these dealings helped to establish the Bush family fortune and set up its political dynasty. >>> Ben Aris in Berlin and Duncan Campbell in Washington | Saturday, September 25, 2010