Hitler convinced them to elect him. He did not force them.
Hitler was never elected by popular vote.
The last election before Hitler took power, 1932, the Nazis actually lost seats in the Reichstag, and Hitler only got 37% of the popular vote. Hindenberg was elected President, and Hindenberg then appointed Hitler as Reichschancellor.
6 days before the 1933 elections, a fire of mysterious origin almost destroyed the Reichstag. Hindenberg passed laws suspending civil rights and authorizing the use of military force to restore order.
Hitler then put his political opponents in concentration camps, and then executed them, so the Nazi party, but not Hitler, won a plurality (not a majority) of seats into the Reichstag via the 1933 elections, which they were able to convert to an effective majority by forming a coalition with other parties.
Hitler himself then seized power (1933), not due to any election, but as an unelected dictator.
Jewish elements were persecuted and prosecuted because they fomented trouble against him.
I take it you have never actually read "Mein Kampf." You should, you would learn that Hitler promised to rid Germany of Jews long before he took power.
Reasons: Jews are dirty vermin, spread disease, are ethnically inferior, destroy better people, if a Jewish man has intercourse with a non-Jewish woman, all her children forever afterwards will have Jewish blood, etc., etc., etc., so says Herr Hitler.
Go ahead, read it, you might like it.
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