Here's a history lesson for you blown.
1920's, German unemployment finally fell below 1 million for the first time since WWI, adn the NSDAP's primary support, the lower middle class turned away from the extremists like the NSDAP (the proper abreviation of the NAZI party, Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter Partie - National Socialist German Worker's Party)
Election of 1928, NSDAP polled 810,000 votes from the 31 MILLION cast, 2.6%, nearly nonexistent.
1929, wall street crash, American banks recalled loans that were helping to support the German economy, and crashed IT. Unemployment soon reached 5 million, the Communists and the Nazi's both thrived as people looked to more radical ways to solve the problems. German industrialists and conservatives much prefered the Nazis to the Comunists, and gave financial backing. The support of the German middle class returned as well.
1930 election, polled 6,371,000 votes, jumped from 12 seats in the Reichstag to 107.
1932 election, polled 13,732,779 votes, jumped from 107 seats in the Reichstag to 230.
Hitler became Chancelor withj the support of the conservative elite, industrialists and landowners, who thought they could controll him. They were very wrong.
He then started dismantling the democratic system almost immediately.
I GLEANED this blown, I wasn't there. :idea:
Dr Chris Mann, author of "SS-Totenkopf, The History of the 'Death's Head' Division 1940-45"