(October 13, 2021 at 7:55 am)pocaracas Wrote: Very interesting and similar to what is still going on in many countries where people vote for the party and then the head of the party with the most parliamentary seats gets invited by the president to form a government.
In practice, when one party gets the most votes, by relative majority or plurality, the head of that party also becomes head of government.
So I see what you're saying that the people didn't vote for Hitler, but they did vote for his party and that won, even if just by plurality.
The NSDAP "won" in the sense that it had the most votes in July 1932. However, in a parliamentary system, you need to be able to rally >50% of all votes under your coalition: While you can have a minority government but thats gonna be quite weak, like May in UK a few years ago. The NSDAP was, and probably never would have been able to form a coalition with a >50% majority. Ergo: Hitler would have never been a chancellor representing a majority of the Reichstag (and thus voters).....aaand he never would have been elected.
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