@RickiTarr

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%:

@Strandjunker

@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...