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Trump kicks off his campaign in Texas with a 1930s-style bang

On January 22, 1933, thousands gathered at the Sportspalast, a large multi-purpose sports arena in Berlin. The occasion was a Nazi rally, held in memory of a “martyr to the movement.” Designers working under Joseph Goebbels’ supervision had set up the arena to evoke “a large and mighty church.” The rally stage, historian Thomas Friedrich has written, wa…