1923: Hitler’s coup failed. No real consequences, no changes. 10 years later, he and his co-conspirators took over Germany.
2021: Trump’s coup failed. No real consequences, no changes. 26.5 months later, he is holding hate rallies and his co-conspirators are still in Congress.
Alas, you are mistaken.
After seizing power, #Hitler literally beat down the opposition, prohibiting any opposition rallies. Then, he held elections where he had always had (an creasing) majority:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstagswahl_März_1933
The English version of wiki is not as good, but the content seems o.k. at first glance:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1933_German_federal_election
And after grabbing power, he had communist-type majorities of nearly 100%:
@HistoPol @RickiTarr @Strandjunker
Look at that voter turn out percentage. More than 80% of Germans were making the effort to fullfill their civic duty to vote.
I keep hearing, there are more of us than them. Our side must really suck at civic duty.
@HistoPol @RickiTarr @Strandjunker
So, the German turn out that year was 88.x% (I keep forgetting the exact number in the 2 seconds it takes to close the wiki page and open a mastodon post)
I was curious, so I looked it up, and found an article about a record high turn out last presidential election. Our US record high turn out? 66.8%
@missladyartemis @RickiTarr @Strandjunker
You talk about an important subject.
In the face of what has been happening in different parts of the globe on different levels (#Hungary, #Poland, #USA, #Israel, #UK,...), I think understanding what, apart from some other materials, the much more detailed #German #Wikipedia entry says about the 1933 elections in the Deutsche Reich is very important, because it helps a lot to see how far countries have progressed towards #fascism...
@HistoPol @RickiTarr @Strandjunker
I'm going to check out the German wiki page, even though I don't know the German language. I will read and learn. I can do this because my browser will translate a webpage for me. My phone also will translate the page for me. And, highlighting/selecting text offers me yet a 3rd option for translation.
Technology is cool.
@missladyartemis @RickiTarr @Strandjunker
Social Media is even cooler.
I felt that at this point in time to know what happened in Germany in 1933 is very vital to know.
Yes, tech is very cool, but you can do one better, which I have done for rather scientific applications since Office 2019, I think.
1) copy all the text of a website, including all pictures
2) paste all of this into a Word document and select the website's language
3) select translate "Document" and you will get...
@missladyartemis @RickiTarr @Strandjunker
...a very good (though not excellent) translation of the text.
Your main problems will be that you will need to know specific German terms like Reichstag and you will need to investigate abbreviations, e.g. of the parties. But for this, you have Wikipedia. ;)
And if you need help on a certain issue, just ask.
*1930's #WeimarRepublic Revisited?*
(1/n)
How #Hitler's party grabbed power
Ah, there is a lot that could be said, and this is no lecture. I will try to be brief:
First of all, comparing participation rates between different political systems is problematic. For instance: literacy rates, do you need to buy a voter ID, etc. Then, and this is relevant for all #Nazi elections, did voters really have a choice?
This said, here are the voter turn-out rates...
@missladyartemis @RickiTarr @Strandjunker
(2/n)
...out rates for the German "House of Representatives" (#Bundestag):
And, yes, turnout used to be much higher. Frankly, I am quite amazed about the enormous turn-out from 1953-1987: 84-91%, for what I am about to say next. (So let's keep this figure in mind for a moment.)
What I have learned from voter turn-outs in general elections above 95% or so in...
Im Jahr 2021 betrug die Wahlbeteiligung bei der Bundestagswahl laut Wahlergebnis 76,6 Prozent, somit wird der leicht ansteigende Trend seit der Bundestagswahl im Jahr 2009 fortgesetzt, bei der die Wahlbeteiligung in Deutschland mit 70,8 Prozent ihren bisher niedrigsten Stand erreichte.
@missladyartemis @RickiTarr @Strandjunker
(3/n)
...#Communist countries is that they (almost?) always were rigged.
The same is true about 👉the 1933 election in #Germany, which I have translated with a little help from Google, to be faster:
Although all other political parties were allowed to vote, the election campaign[s for the Deutsche #Reichstag of 1933] already took place under the auspices of the #dictatorship. The supporters of [#Hitler’s party, the ]#NSDAP committed...
@missladyartemis @RickiTarr @Strandjunker
(4/n)
...numerous acts of political terror with impunity, which were directed primarily against Social Democrats [#SPD] and #Communists [#KPD]. Hermann #Göring, acting #Prussian 👉Minister of the Interior, issued the order to the police on 17 February to use firearms without holding back.👈
A few days later, the members of 👉the #SA [#Sturmabteilung, paramilitary #Nazi unit]], #SS [#Schutzstaffel,] and #Stahlhelm were turned into auxiliary policemen👈...
@missladyartemis @RickiTarr @Strandjunker
👉The Death of the #WeimarRepublic👈
(5/n)
...On February 23, the #Communists were able to hold their last major election campaign event in #Prussia with Wilhelm #Pieck as their top candidate. But 👉Pieck could not [even] finish his speech because the event was broken up by the #police.👈 On February 27, there was a #Reichstag fire [#Reichstagsbrand]. Regardless of whether the fire...
@missladyartemis @RickiTarr @Strandjunker
#DEhistory
(5/n)
...was started by a lone perpetrator or staged by the #NSDAP itself, they exploited the process politically by blaming the #Communists. Already 👉the day after the fire, the #communist press and for two weeks the press of the #SPD were also banned. The offices of the #KPD were closed and deputies and functionaries were taken into "protective custody".👈 On the same day, the #Reichstag Fire Ordinance [#Reichtagstagsbrandverordnung] was...
@missladyartemis @RickiTarr @Strandjunker
👉The Death of #Democracy👈
(6/n)
...was issued. [👉This emergency decree suspended many fundamental rights.]
This eliminated the previous rule of law.👈
👉Leading figures from the #KPD and #SPD were imprisoned. Thus, on 3 March, Ernst #Thälmann was found through treachery. Dissident intellectuals were also imprisoned. […] Many prisoners were interned and physically abused in the #ConcentrationCamps, established in February 1933.👈 Despite the de facto...
@missladyartemis @RickiTarr @Strandjunker
#DEhistory #Democracy
👉The Death of the #Republic👈
(7/n)
...destruction of its ability to act, the #KPD did not formally dissolve because the government did not expect any practical advantages from dissolving it.
For their election campaign, the #NSDAP and the Black-White-Red Fighting Front were promised campaign aid amounting to three million #Reichsmarks at a secret 👉meeting between #Hitler and industrialists👈 on 20 February 1933. […]
@missladyartemis @RickiTarr @Strandjunker
#DEhistory
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...[👉Despite all this political terror by the #Nazis, the #NSDAP did not yet gain an absolute majority in the February elections.👈 ]
The February election, however, paved the way to #dictatorship on this basis. 👉The next election in November 1933 provided only for a #NSDAP unity list in conjunction with a referendum on leaving the #LeagueOfNations
[And thus, #Democracy was abolished.👈]
/END
Primary source:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstagswahl_März_1933
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