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When Adolf Hitler walked into the presidential office of Paul von Hindenburg to become chancellor, the old gentleman was so annoyed he would hardly look at him. He looked at Hitler as an outcast, and frowned upon him. Hitler argued with Hindenburg over the election that he had lost. Hitler demanded a new election. It was the final argument in what had been a huge tangled web of political infighting and backstabbing that finally resulted …

…this. Within weeks, Hitler would be absolute dictator of Germany and would set in motion a chain of events resulting in the second World War and the eventual deaths of nearly 50 million humans through that war and through deliberate extermination. To begin, Hitler would see the German democratic republic go down in flames, literally. In February 1933, the Nazis hatched a plan to burn the Reichstag building and end democracy once and for all. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**