He won power because the conservative Centrist Party agreed to form a coalition with him and voted for him as chancellor, as well as for his Emergency Law that abolished democracy, even though he had written Mein Kampf years earlier, which already included plans for everything he did later, including the Holocaust.
Without their support, he wouldn’t have had enough votes.
The signs were there before he became Reichschancellor. People just didn’t think he and his party would basically rewire the whole German government into a totalitarian cult of personality. And then we all found out the hard way.
For the record, Hitler initially won power through elections, he did not begin the whole totalitarian thing until he was already the Chancellor.
He won power because the conservative Centrist Party agreed to form a coalition with him and voted for him as chancellor, as well as for his Emergency Law that abolished democracy, even though he had written Mein Kampf years earlier, which already included plans for everything he did later, including the Holocaust.
Without their support, he wouldn’t have had enough votes.
The signs were there before he became Reichschancellor. People just didn’t think he and his party would basically rewire the whole German government into a totalitarian cult of personality. And then we all found out the hard way.