[ohioman]

The way Hitler came to office was perfectly legal. In fact, he was never elected. He was appointed by Hindenburg after the urging of Franz Von Papen. As Vice Chancellor, Papen foolishly thought he could control Chancellor Hitler. It was a fatal mistake as Von Papen was murdered by Hitler during the Night of the Long Knives in 1934.

[WhiskeyX]

You are repeating the fallacy. Hindenburg's appointment of Hitler was supposed to have been legitimated by the plurality representation of the NSDAP in the Reichstag. This supposed representation in the Reichstag was obtained in substantial extent by various methods of vote fraud even to the point of murder, assassination, paramilitary warfare. and the coup overthrowing the Prussian government. To make a long and complex history short, these illegitimate methods led up to Hindenburg's appointment of Hitler to a position which still retained at least some limitations in authority, which were subsequently overthrown by the illegitimate Enabling Act. When the Reichstag refused to authorize the overthrow of the constitutional government, the NSDAP resorted to open violence and assassination inside and outside the Reichstag and its lawful delegates. The subsequent vote was illegal, so the establishment of the NAZI regime by way of the Enabling Act was also blatantly a blatantly illegal coup.

[dfwgator]

Hitler engineered a coup behind the scenes, in the last free election, the Nazis actually lost seats.