March 1933

>>1925525

other smaller parties around Germany. The Reichstag was filled with small parties which made up various coalitions.

>>1925525
divided amongst the many other coalitions, iirc, primarily the reactionary/conservative coalition headed by hindenburg.

>>1925528
>>1925529
But what happened to the voters?

Did they all just literally fall for Hitler? Were they forced to fight? Were they persecuted?

I really doubt this nonsense that the German people loved Hitler, I've read that people thought Mein Kampf was dull and boring and that officers often found him narcissistic in conversation.

>>1925543
only the obstinate opponents, pessimists, or threatened minorities were openly hostile towards nsdap.

It should be noted that you are not exempt from the same errors they made.

If you lived through the hardships of post great war germany and were seemingly elevated from that life by the values and successes of the nsdap, you would jump on board with ease.

Germans love to forget that NSDAP was allied to DNVP and together they had over 50% of votes.
They do that to argue that Nazi policies were supported by "minority".

The fact is not only DNVP supported Nazi proposals but other parties as well.
It was only that DNVP was officially allied with them. And in fact in many ways more radical.

>>1925543

They probably didn't have much of a voice, not to mention you did have people who just never went to rallies at all. The myth that all of Germany fell head over heels for Hitler needs to be dispelled. A lot of Germans were indifferent until the war.

>>1925565
44% is incredible for a proportional system.

>>1925543
Most of them ended up supporting Hitler. He was pretty popular by the late 1930s because of the economy and his successes adding land to Germany without war. The KPD and SPD voters mostly remained anti-Nazi though.

>>1925543

In the leadup to the March 1933 election, the Communists and Socialdemocrats had all been arrested by the police as a result of the reichstad fire Decree. But their parties were still up for election and only banned afterwards. With the stroke of a pen, Hitler nullified some 30% seats in Reichstad, giving the nazis absolute majority.

Furthermore, in the leadup to the election, Göering and Frick controlled all of the police in Germany. Police were instructed to not to interfere with SA Scaretactics and gangsterisms - directed at the other parties.

Essentially, the March 1933 election was not in the least bit fair.

>>1925576
The highest they got in an actually fair election was 37%, and they got 33% in the last free and fair election

>>1925580
Nah, keep telling that.
In polls up to 50s majority of Germans supported NSDAP and in fact around 40% supported genocide of Jews and Slavs too.

>>1925637

While that sounds interesting, it also sounds like bullshit. Sources please.

>>1925577

Lol no they didn't. The ussr and the nazis were allied until 1941.

>>1926743
The SPD and the KPD did remain anti-Nazi. I don't know who you're trying to fool. External state alliances not withstanding, the Nazis made sure to do everything in their power to purge the SPD and KPD from existence (Reichstag Fire Decree). They were quite literally Nazi Germany's first victims.

>>1926753
Catholic Center Party was supportive of Nazis though and as said before DNVP were their official allies.

>>1926728
In 1946, 37% in the US occupation zone said about the Holocaust that "the extermination of the Jews and Poles and other non-Aryans was necessary for the security of Germans."

Tony Judt Postwar: a History of Europe

>>1927079

While that's interesting, it's also after some 12 years of incessant nazi progapanda. Give me 12 years of totalitarian rule and I can have 37% of the population believe just about anything.

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>>1925525
Funny story about Ernst Thälmann.

Leon Trotsky argued against the accusations of' 'Social Fascism':
>"Worker-Communists, you are hundreds of thousands, millions; you cannot leave for anyplace; there are not enough passports for you. Should fascism come to power, it will ride over your skulls and spines like a terrific tank. Your salvation lies in merciless struggle. And only a fighting unity with the Social Democratic workers can bring victory. Make haste, worker-Communists, you have very little time left!"

Ernst Thälmann, the leader of the KPD, denounced Trotsky's position as the worst kind of "social fascism":
>In his pamphlet on the question, How will National Socialism be Defeated?, Trotsky gives always but one reply: 'The German Communist Party must make a bloc with the social democracy...' In framing this bloc, Trotsky sees the only way for completely saving the German working class against fascism. Either the Communist Party will make a bloc with the social democracy or the German working class is lost for 10-20 years. This is the theory of a completely ruined fascist and counter revolutionary."

Six months after the Nazi party won the German elections, Ernst Thälmann was imprisoned by the National Socialists. He was held in solitary confinement for eleven years, before being shot.

>>1927079
>Catholic Center Party was supportive of Nazis though and as said before DNVP were their official allies
That's completely irrelevant to anything I wrote.

>>1928437
What ist funny about that? Also, try not to confuse the names

It was a pretty bullshit election but to think that the average GERMan dindu nuffin and was completely oblivious is simply re writing history

How far off the Hungary 2014 election was Germany 1933, in terms of "fairness"?