In the Tuesday, Feb. 22, edition of the Dubuque Telegraph Herald, Siegfried Sutterlin states that “Adolph Hitler was democratically elected...” Mr. Sutterlin needs to take a history class! Adolph Hitler was never democratically elected to any political office in Germany — not President, not Chancellor, not führer or even dogcatcher. Hitler was the National Socialist Party (Nazi party) candidate for the presidency in the 1932 elections (37% of the vote). Hitler was defeated by Paul von Hindenburg (63% of the vote), formerly field marshal and chief of the German general staff under Kaiser Wilhelm II. Hindenburg was first elected president...