RE: How do dictators take over?
February 28, 2017 at 4:09 pm
(This post was last modified: February 28, 2017 at 4:31 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(February 28, 2017 at 2:00 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote:(February 26, 2017 at 9:31 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Hitler was not elected. He never won a single election to public office in his life.
What? The Nazi's won the plurality of votes in 1932 with Hitler as the clear head of the party. I think what you mean is that he never won a majority vote, but he obviously was elected. German democracy in the 30s wasn't the same system we use in America today.
No. I said what I mean: Hitler never won a public office by election. You said that he did, and that is not factual.
You wrote, "When Germany elected a dictator ..." but Germany never did such a thing. Hitler was appointed to office, the NaZis didn't have the Parliamentary votes to seat him, and the only reason he was appointed Chancellor was because of intrigues by both Schliecher and von Papen. Hitler could not have been voted Chancellor because the Wiemar Constitution stipulated that that was an appointed position.
I know that this wasn't the same system we use today here, thank you. That matters not. He never ran for Chancellor. He ran for President in 1932 (Hindenburg's position) and lost by a wide margin. The NaZi position in the Reichstag had already started ebbing by the end of 1932, with the party losing seats; but that matters not, because the Reichstag didn't elect Hitler, either.
I think what you mean is that you thought he was elected by some means or another because you've heard it bruited about so often. He wasn't. Hitler never one a single election, and the NaZis never held a clear majority of the Reichstag.
