Tristan SnellHitler was elected chancellor of Germany with only 43.9% of the vote.
But because the anti-Hitler forces were divided, Hitler won.
Hitler then made himself dictator and abolished free elections.
David Mitchell 
This *shouldn’t* have been a surprise to anyone… as early as 1923 he was saying:
“Two years of democracy have lost us Silesia, the Rhine and the Ruhr. Our demoralized party system is a symptom of our disease. What can the present government do? Nothing. It has no permanent support anywhere. Parliamentary majorities fluctuate with the mood of the moment. Parliamentary government is the spawn of hell.”
- October 1923 The American Monthly