The Nazis - A Warning From Yesterday For The UK [View all]

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Above - the first meeting of Hitler's Coalition Cabinet in January 1933. On the front right sits Franz Von Papen, his Vice-Chancellor, who thought he could control the Nazis to promote the interests of his own corporate sponsors and fellow nobles. A year later, it was Hitler who sacked Von Papen, who then was exiled as Ambassador to the Vatican City.

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This is very relevant in the UK at the moment with the rise of UKIP (Britain's Tea Party) and with regards to next year's general election there.

In yesterday's Huffington Post: Nigel Farage Says Ukip Would Prop Up A Minority Tory Government

An apt comparison that's doing the rounds on Facebook:

HITLER FARAGE COMES TO POWER

Germans Britons lacked confidence in their weak government, known as the Weimar Republic Con-Dem Coalition. These conditions provided the chance for the rise of a new leader, Adolf Hitler Nigel Farage, and his Party, the National Socialist German Workers Party United Kingdom Independence Party, or NAZI party UKIP for short.

Hitler Farage was a powerful and spellbinding speaker who attracted a wide following of Germans Britons desperate for change. He promised the disenchanted a better life and glorious Germany Britain. The NAZI UKIP appealed especially to the unemployed, young people and members of the lower middle class.

The Party rise to power was rapid. Before the economic depression struck the NAZI UKIP were practically unknown winning only 3% 3.1% of the vote of the Reichstag UK Parliament in elections in 1924 2010. In the 1932 2014 elections the NAZI UKIP won 33% 27.5% of the votes, more than any other party.