The rise of Hitler - a podcast by BBC World Service

On January 25 1933 the last legal communist march was held in Berlin.

Just a few days later Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany.

Soon the Communist Party was banned and the Nazi grip on power was complete.

Eric Hobsbawm was a schoolboy communist.

Photo: Communist rally 1932. Hulton Archive/Getty Images

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