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"Let him wrestle with an unworkable democratic system and an economy teetering on the brink of collapse. Yet this man was the avowed enemy of democracy, and his paramilitary brownshirts had for many years been fomenting violence on the streets. No wonder Hindenburg was reluctant to appoint him, but industrialists, fearful of communism, were calling for the appointment." [Furtado: 1001 Days]