Hitler Becomes a German Citizen: Now He Can Run for Office
Hitler wasn't German. He was Austrian. He'd lived in Germany since 1913 but never bothered with citizenship. By 1932, he'd built a massive political movement and couldn't legally run for president of the country he wanted to rule. The Nazi Party got him appointed as a government administrator in Brunswick—a made-up job that existed for one day. That made him a state employee. State employees could be naturalized. On February 25, 1932, he became German. Seven weeks later, he ran for president and lost. Eight months after that, he was appointed chancellor anyway. The technicality that almost stopped him ended up mattering for nothing.
February 25, 1932
94 years ago
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