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Hitler is a famous
speaker,there are more and more people who are knowing about him
and who are following him.
Over the next few years his book gets published and it sells, actually,
tens of thousands of copies over the next several years, but for the
most part he's still a relatively small actor in German politics.
Parliamentary elections and the Parliament in Germany is the
Reichstag. For the first time is able to have a significant showing. It gets
18% of te vote and a proportional representation in the Parliament.
In 1932 Adolf Hitler actually makes a run for President. The current
President at that point is Paul von Hindenburg, famous for the
Hindenburg line, later for the Hindenburg, the famous exploding
Zeppelin disaster.He has a fairly good showing.Hitler managed to get
35% of the vote.
In 1933 we have a little crisis.There is no government , no Chancellor,
no Cabinet to essentially be the executive,the government of the
country because there's been no major coalitions.
The Weimar Constitution allowed a strange thing,it allowed the
President to appoint a government, appoint a Cabinet, a Chancellor
that might not even be representative of what's going on in
Parliament.So in January 1933 ,Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor.
After the suspension of civil rights and then the Enabling Act shortly
afterwards, Hitler and the Nazi's are essentially in full control of the
German government and by July 1933, Nazi’s are the only legal party.