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Historian wants us to see lessons we’ve ignored from Hitler's rise

https://forward.com/news/639516/in-new-book-historian-describes-the-lessons-learned-and-ignored-from-hitlers-rise/

“Trump is not Hitler, by any means,” says Timothy Ryback. “But I think there are modalities that are very similar."

In his new book, “Takeover: Hitler’s Final Rise to Power”...Ryback also sets out to show how the Nazi leader came to power in a functioning democracy, enabled by rivals and fairweather allies who either underestimated him or thought they could “tame” him once he took office.

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