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DZ Season 002 Part 05 How Hitler Almost Missed the Bus Part 5. 12 January 1933. Nazi Party definitely tanked now - (ha! ha!)
Do you think football will ever turn professional? Today is Thursday 12th January 1933 and the news is that Italian football club AS Roma has just signed the Argentinian striker and World Cup veteran Alejandro Scopelli after paying a transfer fee of a whopping 80,000 marks to his former club, Estudiantes de La Plata.
The Germans didn’t want to go down this route. In 1930 they‘d banned fourteen footballers on the FC Schalke 04 football club because they charged expenses of 10 marks per match instead of the permitted 5 marks.
Then again, just a few months earlier at the German National Conference of the Football Association approved a German Reichsliga (a national football league) that would allow professional players so that Germany would be able to play competitively on the world stage.
That is great news. I wonder what’s happening on the political pages of the newspapers in Berlin. Hitler seems to be washed up. The Nazis had only got their big vote in July 1932 as a protest vote. In the last election they’d started to sink like a lead balloon. Their policies hadn’t mattered when it was a protest vote but in November people have to really decide if they wanted to vote for the Nazis. No-one’s quite sure what they will do if they’re elected. Any way it doesn’t matter now, that isn’t going to happen.
I’ve been telling the story of those last few days from November 1932 to January 1933 and about the most unlikely success story - how Adolf Hitler accidentally ended up as the leader of Germany, because genuinely powerful political people who hated each other, didn’t realise what would happen when they put him in charge to spite their real enemies.
Tag words: Nazi Party; Nazis; Mein Kampf; Franz von Papen; Adolf Hitler; Edgar Ansel Mowrer; Germany Puts the Clock Back; Hjalmar Schacht; German Reichsbank; Montagu Norman; Christopher Isherwood; Goodbye to Berlin; Mr Norris Changes Trains; Cabaret; Chancellor Schleicher; Kurt von Schuschnigg; Theodor Wolff; Berliner Tageblatt; Joachim von Ribbentrop; Ernst Röhm; SS; SA; Joseph Goebbels; President Hindenberg; The Rebel; Luis Trenker; Magda Goebbels; Der Alarm; Treaty of Versailles; Wilhelm Stegmann; Bernhard Wilhelm von Bülow;
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By Paul FordyceDo you think football will ever turn professional? Today is Thursday 12th January 1933 and the news is that Italian football club AS Roma has just signed the Argentinian striker and World Cup veteran Alejandro Scopelli after paying a transfer fee of a whopping 80,000 marks to his former club, Estudiantes de La Plata.
The Germans didn’t want to go down this route. In 1930 they‘d banned fourteen footballers on the FC Schalke 04 football club because they charged expenses of 10 marks per match instead of the permitted 5 marks.
Then again, just a few months earlier at the German National Conference of the Football Association approved a German Reichsliga (a national football league) that would allow professional players so that Germany would be able to play competitively on the world stage.
That is great news. I wonder what’s happening on the political pages of the newspapers in Berlin. Hitler seems to be washed up. The Nazis had only got their big vote in July 1932 as a protest vote. In the last election they’d started to sink like a lead balloon. Their policies hadn’t mattered when it was a protest vote but in November people have to really decide if they wanted to vote for the Nazis. No-one’s quite sure what they will do if they’re elected. Any way it doesn’t matter now, that isn’t going to happen.
I’ve been telling the story of those last few days from November 1932 to January 1933 and about the most unlikely success story - how Adolf Hitler accidentally ended up as the leader of Germany, because genuinely powerful political people who hated each other, didn’t realise what would happen when they put him in charge to spite their real enemies.
Tag words: Nazi Party; Nazis; Mein Kampf; Franz von Papen; Adolf Hitler; Edgar Ansel Mowrer; Germany Puts the Clock Back; Hjalmar Schacht; German Reichsbank; Montagu Norman; Christopher Isherwood; Goodbye to Berlin; Mr Norris Changes Trains; Cabaret; Chancellor Schleicher; Kurt von Schuschnigg; Theodor Wolff; Berliner Tageblatt; Joachim von Ribbentrop; Ernst Röhm; SS; SA; Joseph Goebbels; President Hindenberg; The Rebel; Luis Trenker; Magda Goebbels; Der Alarm; Treaty of Versailles; Wilhelm Stegmann; Bernhard Wilhelm von Bülow;