text: Thank you for the link to that very interesting article. One thing, though:
  
  <<In 1932, Hitler doubled his vote to 37.4 percent, and the Nazis became Germany’s largest party. By January 1933, they were in charge.>>
  
  This glosses over the fact that mere months before Hitler became chancellor the Nazi party was on the ropes. Hitler assumed power through a tragic series of political intrigues accelerated by the personal vendetta of Franz von Papen against Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher. Had the conspiracy against Schleicher been thwarted or at least delayed, Hitler might well have lost his bid for the chancellorship and the Nazi Party would've slid further into decline.
  
  As is well known, von Papen was a conservative Catholic.