Democracy was to be replaced with “a government of power and authority” that would “ruthlessly clean out the pigsty.”56 When he demanded a “dictator who is also a genius…a man of iron who is the embodiment today of the Germanic spirit,” Hitler was speaking to the hearts of his audience.57 Germany, he declared in May 1921, “will only be able to live if the pigsty of Jewish corruption, democratic hypocrisy and socialist betrayal is swept clean by an iron broom—and that broom will be made in Bavaria.”58 Hitler made no secret about what he would do with the post-war revolutionaries. “We demand a
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