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Requisitioned Cabs used at the Battle of the Marne, 1914
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Now + Then: The Miracle on the Marne

On this day 110 years ago, French and British forces along the Marne River were suffering through arguably the most important battle of World War I – an early clash that saved Paris and broke the German war plan but also ushered in the horrors of trench warfare.

​Reich President Paul von Hindenburg and Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler are greeted by the people with the Nazi salute on the occasion of the Day of Commemoration of Heroes on 25 February 1934.
Analysis

The night Hitler consolidated totalitarian power

How do democracies fall? They implode.