RE: Overthrowing oppressive regimes by military force
March 7, 2016 at 2:43 pm
(This post was last modified: March 7, 2016 at 2:49 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(March 7, 2016 at 2:22 pm)Minimalist Wrote:(March 7, 2016 at 1:31 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Hitler was never elected, and the NaZis never had a parliamentary majority.
Well...... The Nazis were the largest party in the Reichstag when President Hindenburg appointed Hitler to be Chancellor and form a government in a coalition with the German National People's Party which had been pre-arranged by his predecessor as Chancellor, Franz Von Papen. Really just politics as usual. So, true Hitler was not "elected" chancellor because it was not an elected position but the general point is that they came to power by constitutional means. As opposed to Mussolini who marched the Camicie Nere into Rome and effectively overthrew the government.
They came to Parliamentary power in a legitimate fashion, but as you well know, Hitler was appointed and not elected, and that furthermore, it was the Enabling Act, passed after his appointment, with its extension of rule-by-decree -- a completely unconstitutional law, so far as I can tell though I'm no scholar -- that cemented the dictatorship. Add to that the fact that the NaZis lost seats in Parliament between the April and October elections in 1933, and the steep drop in donations they experienced in the last half of that year, and you can see that their star was waning and not waxing.
My point being that this claptrap about "they were elected" elides the point that they did so essentially by deception.
