A small point but worthy of note for the record:

Don Firth - 25 Nov 03 - 06:02 PM

"I remind you that Hitler was elected to office. How many people would have voted for him if they'd had any idea of what he was really up to? Yet, he gave plenty of indication."

GUEST,pdc - 25 Nov 03 - 06:27 PM

"There is one problem, however, with your Bush-Hitler analogy, Don, and that is that once Hitler had been elected, he banned free elections."

The fact however is that in 1933 Hitler was NOT elected to office, he was appointed to that office by the President, Paul von Hindenburg. Even at that he was Hindenburg's third choice, the first was Franz von Papen being the incumbent Chancellor immediately after the elections, and the second was Kurt von Schleicher. Hindenburg was in no doubt whatsoever where Hitler was leading the country, the conservatives however believed that they could control Hitler in the role of Chancellor (The government that Hitler formed in 1933 only contained 3 of his own Party out of 11 ministers). NO doubt Wolfgang will be able to corroborate the above, a search in google definitely will.