Socialist Worker  The resistible rise of Adolf Hitler  Hitler’s
rise to power was the greatest defeat in the history of the
working class, and we are told all kinds of myths about how it
happened. Donny Gluckstein uncovers the real story—and looks at
how we can stop it happening again  Published Fri 15 Mar 2013
Issue No. 2338  Adolf Hitler and his henchmen  Adolf Hitler and
his henchmen  Eighty years ago this week, on 30 January 1933,
Hitler became chancellor of Germany. This infamous day has been
dubbed “midnight in the century”. It opened a new period of
terror unlike anything the world had ever seen—bringing
repression, war and the industrial murder of more than ten
million people.  TV pundits and school textbooks tell us that
“the initiator and motive force of everything that happened was
Adolf Hitler”. He is described as a uniquely charismatic leader
whose mesmerising eyes and rhetoric captivated everyone.  Others
cast almost the whole population of Germany as Hitler’s “willing
executioners”.  But easy a