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Adolf HitlerThe Rise Of Adolf Hitler     On the rattling eve of the birth of the third reich a feverish tension gripped Berlin. The Weimar res publica seemed obvious to almost everyone, that it was about to expire. For more than a year it had been debauched crumbling. General Kurt von Schleicher, who like his immediate predecessor, Franz von Papen, cared little for the Republic and less for its democracy, and who, also like him, had ruled as Chancellor by presidential rescript without recourse to Parliament, had come to the end of his rope after fifty-seven eld in office.      On Saturday, January 28, 1933, he had been abruptly dismissed by the develop hot seat of Germany, Field Marshal von Hindenburg. And I, the leader of the National Socialists, the largest political troupe in Germany at the time, was demanding for myself the chancellorship of the democratic republic (I had sworn to destroy).     Just out front noon on Monday, January 29, I was having coffee and cake with fellow socialists. Hermann Goering, President of the Reichstag and second to me in the Nazi party, burst in and told Hitler that I would be named Chancellor.     Shortly before noon on Monday, January 30, I drove everyplace the Chancellery for an interview with Hindenburg that was to prove fateful for myself, Germany, and the rest of the world. From a window in the Kaiserhof, Goebbels, Roehm and the other Nazi chiefs kept an anxious watch on the opening of the chancellery, where the I would shortly be coming out. We would see from his face whether he had succeeded or not, Goebbels noted.     In a few minutes later they would run across a miracle. Me, the man with the