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Conspiracy: Hitler’s escape to South America

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The Nazis Were Not Averse to a Bit of Conspiracy Theory

The Nazis were not conspiracy theorists on the whole in that way if you look at Stalin he was constantly dreaming up imaginary conspiracies arresting people including most of his top ranked supporters like Bukharinov and Zinnovia. Hitler from the very beginning was the focus of massive adulation by his followers even by the top ones like Göring, Gerbels, Hembert and so on they all had a huge face in him so they were not a threat. The only threat Ernst Röhm in 1934 killed in the night of the long night so that's the result of really pressure from the army who piled on the pressure on the Hitler to rid himself of Röhm.

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