“We cannot tell whether Hitler will be the man who will once again let loose upon the world another war in which civilisation will irretrievably succumb, or whether he will go down in history as the man who restored honour and peace of mind to the Great Germanic nation.”

— Winston S. Churchill

"Hitler and His Choice", The Strand Magazine (November 1935).
The 1930s

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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1874–1965

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