The following weekend Plotkin and a Dutch trade unionist walked for hours through the woods near Berlin with the president of the German Clothing Workers Union trying hard to convince him of the danger facing the trade unions: I asked a dozen alternative questions – what would happen if Hitler did this or did that – to all of which he smiled and said that every one of the questions I raised had been fully discussed and the possibilities weighed … Hindenburg would not tolerate any dictatorship that was established either through sheer terror or through unconstitutional means … Nothing we could
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Complacency of German liberals.
