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obligingly agreed with the line that since the Reichstag fire was a Communist plot, KPD membership was an act of treason. As a result, for all intents and purposes, the KPD was "outlawed" on the day the Reichstag Fire Decree took effect and "completely banned" as of the day of the election. While the Social Democrats (SPD) were then not as heavily oppressed as the Communists, the Social Democrats were also restricted in their actions, as the party's leadership had already fled to
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Therefore, Hitler was forced to maintain his coalition with the DNVP to control the majority of seats. The Communists (KPD) lost about a quarter of their votes, and the Social Democrats suffered only moderate losses. Although the KPD had not been formally banned, it was a foregone conclusion that the
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appointed Hitler as Chancellor, who immediately urged the dissolution of the Reichstag and the calling of new elections. On his second day as Chancellor, Hitler opened his campaign with a nationwide radio address pledging to save the nation from the communists, which he castigated as "political
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The resources of big business and the state were thrown behind the Nazis' campaign to achieve saturation coverage all over Germany. Brownshirts and SS patrolled and marched menacingly through the streets of cities and towns. A "combination of terror, repression and propaganda was mobilized in
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in the event of a ban, and he also believed the KPD's presence on the ballot could siphon off votes away from the Social Democrats. Instead, he opted to simply have Communist functionaries jailed by the thousands. The courts and prosecutors, both already hostile to the KPD long before 1933,
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was called for November by Hindenburg, in which voters were presented with a single list of Nazis and guest candidates, and voting was not secret: the new Reichstag thus included only NSDAP and supporting members, effectively liquidating what was left of Weimar democracy.
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every... community, large and small, across the land". Irene von Goetz wrote, "In a decree issued on 17 February 1933, Göring ordered the Prussian police force to make unrestrained use of firearms in operations against political opponents (the so-called
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on 23 March with the support of the Nazi Party, the DNVP and the Centre parties, which effectively gave Hitler dictatorial powers. Within months, the Nazis banned all other parties and turned the Reichstag into a
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breaking up Social Democrat meetings and beating up their speakers and audiences. Issues of Social Democratic newspapers were banned. Twenty newspapers of the
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and 4,000 other leaders and members of the KPD shortly before the election, suppressing the Communist vote and consolidating the position of the Nazis.
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KPD deputies would never be allowed to take their seats. Within a few days, all KPD representatives had been placed under arrest or gone into hiding.
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Within four months, the other parties had been shuttered by outright banning or Nazi terror, and Germany had become formally a one-party state. A
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Although the Nazi-DNVP coalition had enough seats to conduct the basic business of government, Hitler needed a two-thirds majority to pass the
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displayed "terror, repression and propaganda ... across the land", and Nazi organizations "monitored" the vote process. In
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of the Weimar Constitution. The emergency law removed many civil liberties and allowed the arrest of
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Six days before the scheduled election date, the German parliament building was set alight in the
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To ensure a Nazi majority in the vote, Nazi organisations also "monitored" the vote process. In
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Although Hitler could have banned the KPD outright, he opted not to do so. He feared a violent
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were ordered to monitor the votes as so-called deputy sheriffs or auxiliary police (
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This would be the last contested election held in Germany until after
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In the second half of February, the violence was extended to the
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The 1933 election followed the previous year's two elections (
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unleash a widespread campaign of violence against the
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Index

November 1932
November 1933
Reichstag
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Adolf Hitler
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Arthur Crispien
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KPD
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Ludwig Kaas
Alfred Hugenberg
Heinrich Held
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