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November 1933 German parliamentary election

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This election set the tone for all further elections and referendums held in the Nazi era. Official results showed 92 percent of the voters approved the Nazi list, on a turnout of 96 percent. The vote was held in far-from secret circumstances; many voters feared that anyone who voted "no" would be
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detected and punished for doing so. In some communities, voters were threatened with reprisals if they dared to vote no, or even if they simply failed to vote at all. Nonetheless, 3.3 million voters submitted invalid ballots.
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By November 1933 the Nazi government had already established a concentration camp system, although camp inmates retained the right to vote. In several camps the Nazi list was endorsed by a large majority of voters and
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The election liquidated what was left of Weimar democracy and reduced the Reichstag to a mere stage for Hitler's speeches. It only met sporadically until the end of
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In August 1934, Hindenburg died, and Hitler seized the president's powers for himself in accordance with
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referendum on Hitler's decision to pull Germany out of the League of Nations
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The Devil's Disciples: The Lives and Times of Hitler's Inner Circle
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reported that that meant an amnesty was considered likely.
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The elections were held on the same day as a separate
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Index

November 1933 German federal election
March 1933
1936
Reichstag
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Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1987-0703-506, Adolf Hitler vor Rundfunk-Mikrofon retouched.jpg
Adolf Hitler
NSDAP
Hitler cabinet
NSDAP
Hitler cabinet
NSDAP
Parliamentary elections
Germany
Nazi Party
Enabling Act
Law Against the Formation of Parties
Alfred Hugenberg
Adolf Hitler
The Guardian
referendum on Hitler's decision to pull Germany out of the League of Nations
Hermann Göring


Nazi Party
World War II
Reichsrat
Law on the Abolition of the Reichsrat
a law passed the previous day
referendum later that month

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