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Joel Dan Walls commented on the blog post Rand Paul’s Deeply Nutty 2009 Interview with Alex Jones Released
Blue Texan: there were several German elections in the space of less than 12 months during 1932 and 1933. The Nazi Party consistently won the largest share of the votes (30 to 40 percent). Wikipedia has summaries:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_federal_election,_July_1932
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_federal_election,_November_1932
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_federal_election,_March_1933
The last of these occurred after the Reichstag fire and was marked by various forms of intimidation, but the 1932 elections are considered to have been fair. I guess you can argue whether this means that the German people “voted for Hitler”, strictly speaking, but the fact is that the Nazis won a plurality.
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Joel Dan Walls commented on the blog post Rand Paul’s Deeply Nutty 2009 Interview with Alex Jones Released
Hilter was appointed chancellor by Hindenburg after the Nazi Party won a plurality of the vote in the parliamentary elections of 1933. That’s the way parliamentary systems typically work: the leader of the largest party gets the first chance to form a government. (The Nazis in fact also won a plurality in the 1932 election, but at that time Hindenburg chose someone other than Hilter–the leader of a smaller party–to be chancellor. That government fell within months.)
The Nazis’ seizure of dictatorial power came after Hitler became chancellor.
So yes, the Nazis did in fact come to power at the ballot box.
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