rob in cal
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« on: December 05, 2020, 03:57:52 PM » |
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Much historical scholarship of the last days of the Weimar Republic focuses on the Jan 15 1933 landtag elections in the mini state of Lippe, in which the Nazis did better than in the November 32 Reichstag election but not as well as they did in the July 32 vote. However, there was one final vote, on the last Sunday, January 22, before Hitler took power. It was for a city council, really village council in the village of Binow, southeast of Stettin, in Pomerania. There, the Nazi vote plummeted from 57% in November to 26%, and the Germany Nationalists basically did the reverse, with the small vote for a leftist unity slate of KPD and SPD doing about the same as the two parties did separately in the November Reichstag elections. Turnout was 280 voters in November and 271 in the January vote. Obviously it was a small sample size but provides further, if fragmentary evidence of the Nazi balloon in burst mode. The Vossische Zeitung of I believe January 25th is the source. I heard about this election in Peter Fritzsche's book on the first Hundred Days of Hitler.
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