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Originally Posted by tw
Another noteworthy day (and I don't have the date) was when Hitler was elected by the German people.
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There was no such date. Hitler was never elected by the German People, per se. Hindenberg appointed Hitler to the post of Chancellor on January 30, 1933. A general election would have taken place in March 1933, if the Reichstag hadn't conveniently burned down, and the Law for the Protection of the People and State was put into place.
On March 23, 1933 a meeting of the Reichstag was held in a temporary location (an opera house) and attendance was controlled by two factors ... communist and socialist factions had already been outlawed, and the SA made sure that members of parties likely to dissent wouldn't get it. That's where Hitler got handed dictatorial power through the Enabling Bill.