may 6, 1932 - The politically powerful General Kurt von Schleicher meets secretly with Adolf Hitler.[2] Schleicher tells Hitler that he is scheming to bring down the Brüning government in Germany and asks for Nazi support of the new "presidential government" Schleicher is planning to form.[2] Schleicher and Hitler negotiate a "gentlemen's agreement" where in exchange for lifting the ban on the SA and SS and having the Reichstag dissolved for early elections this summer, the Nazis will support Schleicher's new chancellor
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may 6, 1932
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~ 92 years ago
