The Mystery of Olga Chekhova
“The Totalitarian Years On 30 January 1933, after a day of confusion and uncertainty, the evening paper in Berlin announced: ‘Hitler Reichschancellor’. A few hours later, massed ranks of SA Brown Shirts marched in a victory parade through the floodlit Brandenburg Gate. Their supporters on both sides of the Pariser Platz cheered and chanted, their arms erect in the Nazi salute.From the windows of the Adlon Hotel, the rich looked on as if from theatre boxes, still unable to take such vulgar street... drama seriously. But even those who could imagine what it signified experienced a sense of angry disbelief. There were many who loathed the Nazis in Berlin, a city which had always taken pride in its irreverent jokes. The Nazi vote, to the frustration of Goebbels, who had been put in charge of the party in the capital, had always been lower than anywhere else. But the parade that evening was a warning that electoral percentages were about to become as irrelevant as the rule of law.Those who believed that such a grotesque political movement could not last long were rapidly disabused.MoreLess
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