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The Gendarme of Hildburghausen

Or: How Hitler became German

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Katja Hoyer
May 17, 2026
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Satirical depiction of Hitler as a gendarmerie commissioner by Social Democrat Friedrich Wendel, 1932. Img: Library of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung

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