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Hitler’s speech to the Düsseldorf Industry Club

Hitler spoke to some 650 members of the Industry Club at the Park Hotel in Düsseldorf on 26 January 1932; many accounts give 27 January.

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Düsseldorf Primary record 2
The German Historical Institute’s page is headed 26 January but its introduction says 27 January. Turner gives 26 January and shows that 27 January is the date in Otto Dietrich’s party-line book of 1934.

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German Big Business and the Rise of Hitler (Oxford University Press, 1985; page numbers come from the running heads of a scanned copy and may be off by one), Oxford University Press, 1985. Scholarship & press
had accepted an invitation to address the club on January 26, 1932
Thyssen ended his remarks by directing an incongruous salutation to Hitler: “Heil, Herr Hitler!”
Hitler’s Speech to the Industry Club in Düsseldorf (January 26, 1932), German Historical Institute Washington, German History in Documents and Images, 26 Jan 1932. Primary record
Around 650 members of the Industry Club, an interest group of leading industrialists, were in attendance.
in the large ballroom at the Park Hotel in Düsseldorf

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