No Straw Men

On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany. He assumed that office constitutionally but not as a result of the democratically expressed choice of the German people. In fact, in the last national election before Hitler’s appointment, held in November 1932, the N.S.D.A.P.’s vote dropped by two million, a loss that reduced its […]

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The National Socialist German Workers’ Party, or Nazis, never garnered more than 37 percent of the popular vote in a fair election, the last of which came in November 1932. How then, as Elie Wiesel asks, did Hitler, an “Austrian without title or position[,] manage to get himself [appointed] head of a German nation renowned […]

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