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Originally Posted by dj_venom

Not by all. I think in the vote for leadership, he/his party received only about a third of the vote, yet after intense pressure the leader of Germany stood aside and let him take over (I may be a bit muddled at the moment, but I think that is how it happened), and even then, not everyone liked him or his ideas, but it was a lot easier to simply go along with it.

Originally Posted by Ravager

Well, Germany was going through tough times and the moderate parties weren't solving the problem. That left the Nais and the Communists. None of the parties were really getting an edge over each other, and the chancellor of the party in power, Von Papen I believe his name was, went to the President, Hindenburg, and after a lot of persuasion the two f them planned to use Hitler as a puppet chancellor. That went on until Hindenburg died, Hitler became Fuhrer merging the Chancellor and President roles, he passed the Enabling Act, banning all opposition...and there you go...

Ravager got it right. And it was definitely von Papen. Funny, Hitler had this air of incompetence and being dopish to his opponents, yet was strength and vigor for the national socialists. Hence how von Papen convinced Hindenburg to make Hitler Chancellor, because he thought Hitler could be controlled.