Election In Germany 1932

Federal elections were held in germany on 31 july 1932 following the premature dissolution of the reichstag the nazi party made significant gains and became the largest party in the reichstag for the first time although they failed to win a majority.

Election in germany 1932. It s a dark dirty secret of history that we don t like to acknowledge but the rise of german fascism began with a democratic election. While it s easy to forget or misunderstand this during the 1932 federal elections nearly 14 million germans voted for hitler the nazis and fascism. The nazi party saw its vote share fall by four percent while there were slight increases for the communist party of germany and the national conservative german national people s party the results were a great disappointment for the nazis who lost 34 seats and failed to form a coalition government in the reichstag.

Independent incumbent paul von hindenburg won a second seven year term against adolf hitler of the national socialist german workers party nsdap. Theodor duesterberg the deputy leader of the. Federal elections were held in germany on 6 november 1932.

322 they were the last multi party elections in. Federal elections were held in germany on 5 march 1933 after the nazi seizure of power on 30 january and just six days after the reichstag fire. Adolf hitler and the nazi party didn t simply take germany by force.

Communist party kpd leader ernst thälmann also ran and received more than ten percent of the vote in the runoff. They were voted in.