RE: All Hail the Second Amendment
December 12, 2018 at 6:58 am
(This post was last modified: December 12, 2018 at 8:10 am by Maketakunai.
Edit Reason: correction and clarification
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(December 12, 2018 at 6:16 am)Amarok Wrote:(December 12, 2018 at 5:38 am)Dmitry1983 Wrote: How? Hitler was democratically elected.Hitler was no democratically elected and the best idea is lawful vigilance against similar men nor did a legion of armed militia's prevent his rise
Hitler WAS democratically elected, dumbass.
During the Weimar Republic in Germany elections placed a political party in power, not individuals. In January 1933 Hitler's Party won with 43% of the vote. Hitler was appointed as Chancellor as a result of that election.
Corrections:
1. Hitler was appointed after an earlier election. I went back and researched this again after Gawdzilla Sama's post #3763. There were several elections during 1932 and 1933. Gawdzilla Sama's timeline is correct in that Hitlers party won in a 1932 election and he was appointed in 1932. All together there were 3 elections. Two were in 1932. 1933 was the last of the series of elections which cemented Hitler's power. This was the election which ousted the communists and the NSDAP won by 43.9%.
2. Clarification - No matter how you look at it, if you have been elected twice to the same office as a result of 3 elections in 12 months, you have been democratically elected.
(Side note - Thanks to Gawdzilla Sama. I got to learn something new this morning, and that's always fun!)
There was also a law, Ermächtigungsgesetz (The Enabling Act), that passed (with such an overwhelming majority that it was enacted without being ratified) in March 1933 that put the NSDAP in full power because it allowed the rightly elected political party to govern without the consent of the German Parliament. Because of that law, the NSDAP enjoyed total government power.
In 1933 the rhetoric of the NSDAP was really no worse than any other political party. It was just presented differently. The party won the election. Hitler wasn't appointed Chancellor on the promise that he would start the Holocaust. However, as he began to gear up for war and started placing Jews in ghettos, he had the support of most German citizens. The majority of Germans continued to support him and the war until 1943-44ish. It wasn't until late 1944/early 1945 that the military became disillusioned with him.