When the Barbarism Begins

El Pais

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“In 1930 it was already clear that the presidential power was in the hands of a man who did not believe in democratic institutions and had no intention of protecting them from their enemies,” writes Richard J. Evans in the first volume of his famous trilogy on the Third Reich. He speaks of Paul von Hindenburg, the president who dismantled the parliamentary democracy of the Weimar Republic, preparing the ground for the 1933 regime. In the inappro…