King Trump and the fall of the American Republic? The tipping point for the Nazi takeover of Germany arguably occurred when President Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler as Chancellor.  This was the culmination of a long, arduous process the Nazis started in the 1920s. In the years following the end of World War I and the Treaty of Versailles, the newly formed Weimar Republic was in shambles, reeling with the aftereffects of the war.  On the whole, the German populace viewed the loss of the war and the terrible terms of the treaty as a stinging, humiliating defeat. Playing on that,…