I notice you missed the part about apologizing for being entirely and utterly wrong about Hitler ever being elected to anything, which he wasn’t.
*When Hitler ran for President in 1932, he was defeated by Paul Hindenburg. But Hindenburg was unable to form a government without the Nazis, who now held 43% of the Reichstag seats, so in 1933 Hindenburg appointed Hitler to be the new chancellor.*
Irrelevant. Hindenburg had ruled through emergency executive powers and very strong Chancellors for nearly 3 years before Hitler was appointed.
How long shall we continue this? Some freepers are in the habit—as are a lot of ignorant people in the world—of claming that Hitler was elected. He was not. Ever. To any office.
All of this continuing bickering is idiotic because you and all these other ignoramuses are simply wrong. So acknowledge being wrong and move on. It’s simple, really, just type “I was wrong”.
Yes, but it is a simple fact that Hitler would not have been appointed chancellor, if his Nazi party had not been elected the largest party in the German Reichstag.
Those facts I well knew. The fact that Hitler himself did not serve in the Reichstag I had forgotten. But surely that was his choice? As his own party's leader, he could have any position he wanted, right?
But look, there's a larger historical issue here, which I doubt if anyone disputes. It's that Hitler's Nazi party originally rose to power by more-or-less legitimate constitutional & democratic means, receiving eventually about 43% of the German vote. This was not the first time, nor the last that a democratic government succumbed to dictatorship.
"Irrelevant. Hindenburg had ruled through emergency executive powers and very strong Chancellors for nearly 3 years before Hitler was appointed."
Irrelevant to what? If I remember, Hindenburg did not really want Hitler as chancellor, but appointed him anyway. Do you say different?