The Davar newspaper front page after Hitler's election victory in 1933

January 28, 1932

Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi party, who is facing a libel suit

"Hitler up close and personal," he emerges as an exotic figure, somewhat peculiar. "I must note right away that the impression Hitler makes is immeasurably better than expected," writes Savitt. "He is 46, but looks younger. Incidentally: he is a bachelor. Self-satisfaction and self-confidence are apparent in his movements; he acts and feels as if he himself is a 'star.' Because the world's eyes are now turned upon him and this pleases him."

"The more the party's electoral power increased, the greater the interest in it,"

"But hardly any of the papers grasped the severity of Nazi anti-Semitism."

Davar was the Histadrut labor federation paper

"Hitler no longer has any hope of becoming the sole ruler in Germany, at most there is a chance that the Nazi party will earn only a few crumbs of power."

When Hitler was appointed chancellor, it