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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (49106)	6/8/2005 12:52:53 AM
From: shadowman	Respond to of 173976

Hitler was appointed Chancellor by Hindenburg in 1932..sworn in in early 1933. Elections were scheduled for March 1933..late in February the Reichstag burned, Hitler blamed the Communists (he also played upon Hindenburg's fear of Communists to get himself appointed Chancellor in the first place), He and his SA and SS then basically outlawed the Communist Party along with the Social Democrats (socialists) a week before the scheduled election. He still couldn't get a majority in the March 1933 elections. Although his Nazi party did get 44% of the vote. That election and the resulting coalition involving the Nazi Party, Nationalists Party, and the Catholic Center Party, gave Hitler the votes he needed in the German "Parliament" to pass "The Enabling Act" in late March 1933 which in effect made him dictator. Based on what I would consider reliable history..Hitler was not democratically elected, but he was elected...deviously, but within the confines of the then German constitution.