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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (22382)	8/8/2002 3:33:10 AM
From: smolejv@gmx.net	Respond to of 74559

Machtergreifung - seizure of power The Reichstag fire on 27th of February was used as an excuse by the senile Staatspresident Hindenburg for a decree of 28th feb that extinguished a number of constitutional rights of Weimar republic. salvator.net Elections were called on 8th of March 33 results 5.März 1933 voters: 44,7 Mill., voted: 88,7% / Mill. votes % seats NSDAP 17,3 43,9 288 DNVP 3,1 8,0 52 Zentrum 4,4 11,2 74 BVP 1,1 2,7 18 SPD 7,2 18,3 120 KPD 4,8 12,3 81 Gesamt 39,3 96,4 647 note that nazis, in spite of having their hands on all the levers of media, in spite of one of the biggest campaigns in history, got no majority (288 out of 647). On 23th of March the new, thoroughly bullied and intimidated parliament in its first and only session passed the so-called "das Gesetz zur Behebung der Not von Volk und Reich", das Ermächtigungsgesetz - the empowerment act, that gave the government the right for next four years to pass laws on its own. In other words, passed a law, that annihilated the legislative arm of the state. salvator.net And on it went... Dachau KZ opened in the spring 1933... Oranienburg... Sachsenhausen... The night of long knives...The Nürnberg racial laws ... Reichskristallnacht... 1939 ... Wannsee Konferenz ...