Here in this house, on 4 January 1933, a meeting took place between Franz van Papen and Adolf Hitler in the house of the banker von Schroeder

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Cologne, Stadtwaldguertel. Here, on 4 January 1933, a meeting took place between Franz van Papen and Adolf Hitler in the house of the banker Kurt Freiherr von Schroeder, where both agreed on Hitler's chancellorship. This meeting is considered the birth of the "3rd Reich".

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Location: Cologne, Germany
Photo credit: © Guido Schiefer / Alamy / Afripics
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