Hitler’s First 100 Days — And Trump’s

Photo: Adolf Hitler at the first Reich Youth Day in Potsdam on October 2, 1932. Photo source: Bibliothèque nationale de France via Wikimedia. Public Domain. Article by Werner Lange. Common Dreams – April 27, 2025.

The fascism unleashed upon Germany beginning in January 1933 with the appointment of Hitler as Chancellor, the youngest ever, and that which unfolded within America with the second inauguration of Trump in January 2025 as President, the oldest ever, exhibited many sinister similarities, but also definite differences during their first 100 days of respective repressive rule. By May 1933 democracy in Germany was dead and buried; but American democracy—one in reality never fully identical with American ideals—still remained alive, though deeply wounded and increasingly afflicted, after just over three months of incessant blows from the Trump regime. The difference offers the antifascist resistance in the United States an opportunity for victory if a viable broad-based united front can be resolutely developed and firmly maintained. […]

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