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– He stood practically the whole time on the bridge and was excited like a boy about the fjords and the glorious weather, said the Norwegian pilot.
(Aftenposten Historie) The newspaper Sogningen was a little late with the news. But it was at the top of page two of the April 17 edition 90 years ago and was equipped with an exclamation point:
The newspaper wrote: “On board ‘Deutschland’, which on Thursday was a quick trip to Sogn, was none other than the German chancellor, Adolf Hitler. The ship made a return trip in the Nærøyfjorden and continued to Hardanger and directly back to Hamburg.” The National Library
A year earlier, Adolf Hitler had been appointed chancellor of Germany. After several years of ups and downs, the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP), or Nazi Party, had come to power.
The party’s program contained, among other things, rearmament and the fight against socialists, Jews and all other enemies of Germany.
Hitler was not on a pure pleasure cruise.
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