Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
A movie for every day of the year – a good one 20 February Hitler secretly meets industrialists, 1933 On this day in 1933, less than a month before the elections of 5 March, a meeting was held between Adolf Hitler and a large group of businessmen and industrialists with the intention of securing funding for the Nazi party. Hitler was hoping to win the election by a two thirds majority, which would allow him to pass the Enabling Act (laws could be made without the agreement of the German parliament). So it was important for Hitler to get the vote out and to get them out for him. People at the meeting … Read more
