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Journalist Dorothy Thompson recorded this speech after arriving in Paris in August 1934. Just days earlier, Nazi authorities had expelled her from Germany. Thompson was the first American journalist expelled from Nazi Germany, since she criticized Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime in her reporting. In her speech, she warned Americans that Nazi Germany did not believe in freedom of the press. "My expulsion from Germany is not individually of any importance. It is only interesting insofar as it thr

Dorothy Thompson and the Interview That Foreshadowed a Dictatorship In 1931, American journalist Dorothy Thompson secured a rare interview with Adolf Hitler at Berlin’s Kaiserhof Hotel, at a moment when the Nazi Party was still rising to power. Thompson asked a direct question: whether, once in office, he would abolish the constitution of the German Republic. Hitler replied that he intended to gain power legally, dissolve parliament, abolish the Weimar Constitution, and establish an authoritaria

In the highly polarized media landscape of the Weimar Republic, Adolf Hitler could expect little accommodation from the press. Across Germany and around the world, Hitler’s attempts to assume power initially made him a laughingstock. https://theatln.tc/PH2gQp4R “We have come to view Hitler’s path to the chancellorship, and ultimately to dictatorship, as inexorable, and Hitler himself as a demonic force of human nature who defied every law of political gravity,” Timothy W. Ryback wrote last year.