Kristallnacht, Putchz, Brown Shirts, SA.  Need I go on?  Guess what
Saddam was elected with 99.9% of the vote.

Denys

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Denys wrote :

> An ardent Socialist by the name of Hitler took
> control of Germany by murdering the opposition at the appropriate time
> and place.

No, no, no. Hitler was called to be the Chancellor of Germany by
President
Hindenburg after an election gave the NSDAP (the Nazi party) a
plurality,
not even a 50% majority, in the general election that was held on
01/30/33.
The tragic truth is that a mostly fair election carried a soon-to-be
ruthless dictator into office. Useless to say, civil liberties would
soon be
trampled and, yes, opposition jailed or murdered quite soon.

In fact, the sad result of the 1933 German general election  is that the
only politician of some stature who had not failed before to restore
Germany
to its former grandeur was Adolf Hitler. And politics, as nature, abhors
a
vacuum. So Hitler was called into chancellorship.

Christian

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