On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. For his followers, it was a day of “national revolution” and rebirth, writes Julian Zelizer.

But Hitler did not “take power,” as the Nazis later said, he was “raised to power” by a small group of influential men, he says. Zelizer: 2024 could be the new 1933, when disinformation topples democratic majorities around the world, as it did in 1933.