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Hitler was democratically elected in the 1933 election with 43.9% of the vote (higher than the other 5 candidates). It doesn't matter if only 1/3 of the popula

Hitler was democratically elected in the 1933 election with 43.9% of the vote (higher than the other 5 candidates). It doesn't matter if only 1/3 of the population supports a candidate; if your elections are first-past-the-post, then whoever wins the most votes wins the election. That's how democracy works. The US elections work much the same way now, with George W Bush winning the 2000 election with less than 50% of the vote (and if you believe Gore should have won, he again won less than 50% of the popular vote). The simple fact is that Hitler did win the 1933 elections in a democratic system. And unlike sham elections like Saddam's where he won 99.9% of the vote, this isn't so obviously rigged.

learc83 10y ago
This has nothing to do with first-past-the-post voting. The vote that you are talking about happened after the Reichstag fire and Hitler was appointed (not elected) Chancellor. Opposition parties were suppressed, and the Nazi party "monitored" the election. Thousands of opposition party members were arrested before the election. In Prussia, 50,000 Nazis were appointed as auxcillary-police to monitor the elections and to intimidate voters. >this isn't so obviously rigged. If you don't think the March 1933 elections were rigged you haven't read enough about them.