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> 43% of Germans voted for the NSDAP. You are aware that they only reached that number after placing armed guards at the polling places, with large parts of t
by josefx 6y ago
> 43% of Germans voted for the NSDAP.
You are aware that they only reached that number after placing armed guards at the polling places, with large parts of the opposition in prison, missing or exile? Hitler wanted to win that "election" with a majority by any means possible, getting 43% despite all the steps he took were a slap in the face.
- cygx 6y agoThen go back a year to the election of Juli 1932, before the NSDAP got into power. Despite Nationalsocialists and Communists battling it out in the streets, the voter turnout was very high at 84.1%. The NSDAP doubled its previous result and became strongest party at 37.3%.
- josefx 6y ago> Then go back a year to the election of Juli 1932, before the NSDAP got into power. And by the November elections that same year they had already lost several percent. > Despite Nationalsocialists and Communists battling it out in the streets Paradoxically Hitlers campaign at that time ran less on antisemitism and more on restoring law and order as well as fixing the economy. Communism and the near endless pool of unemployed it could recruit from was the great enemy of the moment.