Talks between Brüning and NSDAP

© bsb Hitler with 107 NSDAP Reichstag delegates at the opening session on 13 October 1930

After immense electoral gains by the National Socialists in the September 1930 Reichstag elections, Reich Chancellor Heinrich Brüning (Centre) initiates talks with NSDAP party leaders on 5 October 1930. The chancellor plans to win Adolf Hitler’s support for his policies without actually involving the Nazis in any aspect of governing. Like many other representatives of the bourgeois camp in Germany, Brüning entertains the illusory notion that the NSDAP could be „de-radicalised“ through collaboration and transformed into a „party loyal to the state“ – a false assumption, as events will prove.