"If you look at the lives of many ordinary Germans during the Weimar Republic immediately after the first world war, when the economy wasn’t doing well and there were all sorts of problems, many of them could not afford to enjoy all sorts of spectacles but they could go to a Hitler rally."
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Henk de Berg as quoted by David Smith, "The reich stuff – what does Trump really have in common with Hitler?”, The Guardian, (3 June 2024)
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