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It was all there in the headline and first sentence — the anti-Semitism, the swastika wavers (or Hakenkreuzlers), the demagogue with a seemingly mystical sway over crowds. Everything was there except his first name: Adolf.

On Nov. 21, 1922, The New York Times gave its readers their first glimpse of Hitler, in a profile that got a lot of things right — its description of his ability to work a crowd into a fever pitch, ready then and there to stage a coup, presaged his unsuccessful beer hall putsch less than a year later. But the article also got one crucial point very wrong — despite what “several reliable, well-informed sources” told The Times in the third paragraph from the bottom, his anti-Semitism was every bit as genuine and violent as it sounded:

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Just two months later, on Jan. 21, 1923, The Times provided an up-close glimpse of the persuasive power of Hitler’s demagogy on Germans of widely divergent backgrounds:

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And when he was freed from prison just over a year after the failed putsch, The Times offered this unfortunate prediction, on Dec. 21, 1924.

Hitler, alas, soon proved he had not been “tamed.”