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It is instructive to note however that the highest percentage the Nazis got in the reichstag elections was 37%.
Hindenburg, president and beloved war hero, disliked Hitler and was the only person with the power to derail him. Hindenburg was very old and getting senile and for a long time resisted the pressure to appoint Hitler chancellor.
Hitler master pieces were "the night of long knives" and the burning of the
reichstag. Once he got Hindenburg to sign on to the enabling acts it was
much easier to control Germany...he wiped out the oppositions, including the
troublesome "Red Front Fighters", got the regular army to fall in line (especially after Hindenburg's death). In fact he got control of all the organs of security which he wielded with ruthless efficiency.
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