One of the greatest journalistic misapprehensions of all time was made by one of the greatest journalists of all time. In December 1931, the legendary American reporter Dorothy Thompson secured an interview with #AdolfHitler, whose National Socialist party had recently surged in the polls, bringing him from the fringe of German politics to the cusp of political power.(
“When I walked into Adolf #Hitler’s room, I was convinced that I was meeting the future #dictator of #Germany,” Thompson recalled afterward. “In something like 50 seconds, I was quite sure he was not. It took just about that time to measure the startling insignificance of this man who has set the world agog.” Within a year, Hitler was chancellor.
