Isn't that how Hitler got his start. Nazi's got a majority of the seats, burned the place down and then he said we didn't need the place anyway since I control all of the seats. With so many Neville Chamberlains running around why not try it again.
[Isn't that how Hitler got his start. Nazi's got a majority of the seats]
Actually no. The NSDAP barely got 33% of the vote IARC.
However, because the Commies got a whopping minority percentage, leaving the moderate left wing Social Democrats with LESS than Hitler, Hitler became the strongest socialist leader in Germany at that moment.
On the right, the Catholic Center Party (sic) got the highest amount of votes (higher than the Nazis). But they then had to find coalition partners. The National Party (right wing nationalists) were eager to join the Catholics to form a government but they and the Catholics were woefully short of 50%. The Social Democrats refused (or were they not asked?) to form a grand coalition like the one that now exists with Merkel as chancelor. The Catholics and National Party were now left with two choices to form a government: ally with the Communists or the Nazis. Communists were out of the question because they were the arch enemy. The Catholics and Nationalists figured they could live with the Nazis as junior partners, despite all the unsavoriness and the socialist populism.
But Hitler refused entirely to join their government unless they gave the top spot to Hitler himself. This was a shock to their systems. But they backed down in what was the biggest and most cowardly mistake in parliamentary judgement in modern history. They backed down because they figured that they were in fact getting most of the top ministries for their respective parties (Catholics and Nationalists). They felt they could handle Hitler as figurehead and Goerring as "Minister Without Portfolio."
Thus, it wasn't 2/3 of the German people who sold themselves down the drain in an election. Only 1/3 sold their country out...it took spineless "Catholics" to complete the sellout and a lot more people joined the sellout after that. Of course, the Communists and their fellow travelers in the Social Democrats had ALREADY sold their country out years before...so they don't look good in retrospect either.