"The menace he stood for was virtually disregarded because few ever thought of him as a future leader in Germany. By the outside world he was even regarded as some kind of comic figure, the petty agitator who believed himself to be a prophet, but who in origin was little more than a social outcast. Nazism had developed at such speed that many thought, wishfully, that it would disappear just as quickly....
"Inside Germany, in spite of the obvious danger signs in the elections and the constant violence on the streets,... no one (the Nazis excepted) ever thought Hitler would be Chancellor."
Manvell and Fraenkel, The Hundred Days to Hitler (New York: St. Martin's Press 1974), page 22.
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