When was adolf hitler elected into power

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Roosevelt grew up the only child in an upper middle-class family in Hyde Park, New York. But what he did do was, he got a huge share of the vote, more than any other parties by a million miles.

It was a landslide victory in that sense. No party had done anywhere near as well as the Nazis did in the summer of So to that extent, they were the obvious party of government, because they were the party that had done massively better than anybody else. The complexity is that it then obviously required more steps to actually become the governing party.

They would have to be in a coalition, because they hadn't gotten more than 50 percent of the votes or the seats. And it also then depended on the president to invite someone to form the new government.

Hitler didn't win the parliamentary elections like you would in a winner-take-all system like in the US. But the Nazis did become the largest party? By far the largest party. They had seats in the elections in July and seats in the elections in November. The total number of seats varied because the number seats elected was in direct proportion to the number of people who voted. So if more people vote, you have more seats. In the June elections, there were a little over seats.

They had around 40 percent of the vote on their own right. So they were amazingly successful. They were successful also in the sense that they drew their support from everywhere.

From Catholics and Protestants, from town and country, from rich and poor. Men and women as well. Young and old. They were the first party that really made a national breakthrough. They stopped being a party of a particular group.

They were a real national party. There were right-wing circles with access to the president, who was getting on in years at this point and looking for a quiet life. He wanted the chancellorship for himself. He then made common cause with Hitler, persuading President Hindenburg to appoint Hitler chancellor and himself vice-chancellor. In January , Hitler was named chancellor of Germany.

But that was not enough for Hitler either. In February , Hitler blamed a devastating Reichstag fire on the communists its true cause remains a mystery and convinced President Hindenburg to sign a decree suspending individual and civil liberties, a decree Hitler used to silence his political enemies with false arrests. Hindenburg died of lung cancer on August 2, A plebiscite vote was held on August Intimidation, and fear of the communists, brought Hitler a 90 percent majority.

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