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   Lady Artemis (missladyartemis@newsie.social)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2024 21:30:29 JST Lady Artemis

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   Look at that voter turn out percentage. More than 80% of Germans were making the effort to fullfill their civic duty to vote.

   I keep hearing, there are more of us than them. Our side must really suck at civic duty.

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2024 21:30:27 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴

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     *1930's #WemarRepublic Revisited?*

     #Hitler #Fascism #History

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     How #Hitler's party grabbed power

     Ah, there is a lot that could be said, and this is no lecture. I will try to be brief:

     First of all, comparing participation rates between different political systems is problematic. For instance: literacy rates, do you need to buy a voter ID, etc. Then, and this is relevant for all #Nazi elections, did voters really have a choice?

     This said, here are the voter turn-out rates...

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     So, the German turn out that year was 88.x% (I keep forgetting the exact number in the 2 seconds it takes to close the wiki page and open a mastodon post)

     I was curious, so I looked it up, and found an article about a record high turn out last presidential election. Our US record high turn out? 66.8%

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     You talk about an important subject.

     In the face of what has been happening in different parts of the globe on different levels (#Hungary, #Poland, #USA, #Israel, #UK,...), I think understanding what, apart from some other materials, the much more detailed #German #Wikipedia entry says about the 1933 elections in the Deutsche Reich is very important, because it helps a lot to see how far countries have progressed towards #fascism...

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2024 01:54:27 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴

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     ...out rates for the German "House of Representatives" (#Bundestag):

     ...https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/2274/umfrage/entwicklung-der-wahlbeteiligung-bei-bundestagswahlen-seit-1949/

     And, yes, turnout used to be much higher. Frankly, I am quite amazed about the enormous turn-out from 1953-1987: 84-91%, for what I am about to say next. (So let's keep this figure in mind for a moment.)

     What I have learned from voter turn-outs in general elections above 95% or so in...

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2024 01:54:29 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴

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     ...#Communist countries is that they (almost?) always were rigged.

     The same is true about the 1933 election, which I have translated with a little help from Google, to be faster:

     Although all other political parties were allowed to vote, the election campaign[s for the Deutsche #Reichstag of 1933] already took place under the auspices of the #dictatorship. The supporters of [#Hitler’s party, the ]#NSDAP committed...

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2024 01:54:32 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴

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     ...numerous acts of political terror with impunity, which were directed primarily against Social Democrats [#SPD] and Communists [KPD]. Hermann #Göring, acting #Prussian Minister of the Interior, issued the order to the police on 17 February to use firearms without holding back. A few days later, the members of the #SA [#Sturmabteilung, paramilitary #Nazi unit]], #SS [#Schutzstaffel] and #Stahlhelm were turned into auxiliary policemen...

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     ...On February 23, the Communists were able to hold their last major election campaign event in #Prussia with Wilhelm #Pieck as their top candidate. But Pieck could not [even] finish his speech because the event was broken up by the #police. On February 27, there was a Reichstag fire [#Reichstagsbrand]. Regardless of whether the fire...

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     ...was started by a lone perpetrator or staged by the #NSDAP itself, they exploited the process politically by blaming the #Communists. Already the day after the fire, the #communist press and for two weeks the press of the SPD were also banned. The offices of the #KPD were closed and deputies and functionaries were taken into "protective custody". On the same day, the Reichstag Fire Ordinance [#Reichtagstagsbrandverordnung] was...