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Backroom Deals Secure Authoritarian Power Seizure — Part Two Timothy Ryback, author of Takeover: Hitler’s Final Rise to Power, reveals the backroom intrigues of January 1933, as Franz von Papen and Alfred Hugenberg negotiated a coalition with Hitler. Despite Nazi Party debt and factional rifts with Gregor Strasser, President Hindenburg reluctantly appointed Hitler chancellor on January 30, marking the tragic collapse of the Weimar Republic. (6)