How could THAT man get elected?

Years later, a child will ask its parents:

“Mum, dad… how could that man get elected back then? I mean, what were people thinking? What were you thinking?

I mean, even if you just see a picture of him — he looks unfriendly and kind of weird, doesn’t he? Just look at his face!

And he seems so angry all the time. He’s yelling at people, and they seem to… like it? I don’t quite understand it.

And all those insults, all this hatred — how could our people elect such a person? I mean, maybe it’s exciting in a certain, horrible way, but still, this is not the type of character you want for the most important job in this country, right?

And how is it that a lot of people supported his ideas of social exclusion and discrimination against one specific religious group? They even felt like a “movement”. Isn’t all that wrong and racist?

I know, he said he would make our country great, support the middle class, and help our economy and all that, but aren’t those things every politician says?

And when he announced to put his political opponent “in jail”, that certainly was an alarming claim, wasn’t it?

And, you can’t deny you did not know all of these things before, right? Everybody knew! So, again, how could that man get elected?”

And the parents didn’t know how to answer their kid’s question. Or even what to say at all.

And that’s how Adolf Hitler won the German federal election on July 31, 1932.