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Cologne, 4 January 1933 - the private meeting that closed an engine gap canon named itself

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The deal that put Hitler into office was not done in parliament. It was done in a banker's house, between two men, behind a sitting chancellor's back.
Who they are

Hitler and Franz von Papen, a former chancellor; at the Cologne home of Kurt von Schroeder, a partner in the J.H. Stein bank.

What they do

On 4 January 1933 the two men talked privately about a government that would combine Papen's conservative backing with the Nazi party's voters. The sitting chancellor, Schleicher, was not in the room and did not survive the month in office.

How it works

The account of this meeting comes from Schroeder himself, given after the war, when he had every reason to make his own part sound small. That is on the page, not hidden in a footnote: it is good evidence of what he said, and weak evidence of what happened. This page also exists to stop a mix-up. This site claims elsewhere that a New York firm called Schroeder, Rockefeller and Company handled Hitler's personal money. Kurt von Schroeder of Cologne is a different man at a different bank, and a matching surname is not a money trail.

Why it matters

Schleicher's page has said for a while that how Hitler actually got the job was still an open question on this site. This is the answer, and it is smaller and more ordinary than a conspiracy: two politicians, one living room, and a miscalculation.

The engine's record — word for word
[Report #202] **In plain terms:** the deal that put Hitler in office was not done in parliament. It was done in a banker's house, between two men, with a sitting Chancellor outflanked. WHY THIS RECORD EXISTS: canon's own kurt_von_schleicher record states that it 'marks the still-open engine ground on the December 1932 - January 1933 intrigue that put Hitler into the chancellorship.' This is the record that ground was waiting for. WHAT IS CARRIED: that on 4 January 1933 Hitler and former Chancellor Franz von Papen met privately at the Cologne house of the banker Kurt Freiherr von Schroeder, a partner in the J.H. Stein bank; that the substantive negotiation was between Hitler and Papen alone; and that the proposal under discussion was a government fusing the conservative-nationalist bloc behind Papen with the NSDAP's mass base. The account is Schroeder's own, given after the war. SOURCE GRADE, carried on the record rather than in a footnote: this is a defendant-interested retrospective statement by a participant with an obvious motive to minimise his own agency in the formation of the dictatorship. It is primary for what he said, not for what happened. THE DISAMBIGUATION THIS RECORD IS ALSO FOR. Canon's Allen Dulles player card asserts that he 'Sat on the board of **Schroeder, Rockefeller and Company**, which handled **Hitler's personal funds**', with an empty links array. Kurt von Schroeder of J.H. Stein in Cologne and Schroeder, Rockefeller & Company of New York are not the same house, and no document establishing that any house handled Hitler's personal funds was produced by the research pass, which searched for it and returned NOT FOUND. A name match is not a finance link. That card is flagged in this ripple and the claim is held, neither endorsed nor deleted. Held; name no holder.
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