Wherever Hitler went he was besieged by rapturous crowds. Unlike today's Western leaders, he didn't need to hide behind bullet proof glass.
Never in all history has a man been so vilified as Adolf Hitler. According to the mass media of today’s democracy, he was an absolute monster, an insane incarnation of evil. However, the very fact that he is presented as so totally black, with nothing at all to his credit, should excite suspicion in anyone other than an utter idiot or some partisan blinded by prejudice.
The real Hitler, contrary to the mad monster of the media, was a most talented and very widely read man with a phenomenal memory, an exceedingly quick grasp of essentials, a colossal willpower, along with, of course, being the most effective orator the world has ever known: all this in the service of a cause to which he gave himself completely. He was also a charming host, a considerate and loyal friend and colleague, kind to animals, highly appreciative of the beauties of Nature, simple in his style of personal life.
The vilification was not always total as now. Lloyd George, British premier during World War I, after a visit to Germany in 1936, was quoted in the Daily Telegraph of 22nd September of that year as stating “I have never seen a happier people than the Germans. Hitler is one of the greatest men I have ever met.” In a letter to a friend in December of that year he said: “I only wish we had a man of his supreme quality at the head of affairs in our Country today.”
Viscount Rothermere, in his pre-war book, Warnings and Predictions, said of Hitler: “He has a supreme intellect .... He has thoroughly cleansed the moral, ethical life of Germany .... No words can describe his politeness .... He is a man of rare culture. His knowledge of music, the arts and architecture is profound.”
Exhibiting a burning enthusiasm and sheer hard work: “During one month prior to national elections in 1930, for example, the Nazi Party sponsored 34,000 meetings in Germany, which averaged out to be three meetings in every village, town and urban neighbourhood.” (Mothers in the Fatherland, Claudia Koonz, p. 69).
Typical of the receptive spirit of the people during the 1932 elections, NSDAP Press Chief Otto Dietrich described a meeting at Stralsund, scheduled for 8 p.m. but for which Hitler was long delayed, finally reaching the place at 2:30 a.m.:
Women and children supporting Hitler (Image - Renegade Tribune)
Exhibiting a burning enthusiasm and sheer hard work: “During one month prior to national elections in 1930, for example, the Nazi Party sponsored 34,000 meetings in Germany, which averaged out to be three meetings in every village, town and urban neighbourhood.” (Mothers in the Fatherland, Claudia Koonz, p. 69).
Typical of the receptive spirit of the people during the 1932 elections, NSDAP Press Chief Otto Dietrich described a meeting at Stralsund, scheduled for 8 p.m. but for which Hitler was long delayed, finally reaching the place at 2:30 a.m.:
“In the open air, and in the pouring rain, we met the crowd drenched to the skin, weary and hungry, just as they had gathered over the night and patiently waited. Hitler spoke to the audience as day slowly dawned."There they were, 40,000 people eagerly listening at 4 o’clock in the morning—after all that time and all that discomfort—to the man they rightly regarded as their political saviour! Can you imagine such a turnout for our present premier Bumbling Boris, a man who supports an amnesty for 500,000 illegal immigrants who should have been kicked out of the country years ago?
Adolf Hitler's political party, the 'National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP)' took power democratically through the ballot box in accordance with the German Constitution of the time.
The party's first seats in the Reichstag came in the May 1924 German federal election which the party entered by proxy as the National Socialist Freedom Movement (NSFM). The party won 32 seats but lost 18 of them when it stood again in December that year.
The NSFM had been formed after the Nazi Party (NSDAP) had been banned as a result of the Beer Hall Putsch. The ban expired in January 1925 and the Nazi Party was reformed. The NSFB was then reabsorbed into the Nazi Party.
The NSDAP continued to contest elections to the Reichstag with mixed results until the federal election of July 1932, when the Nazis won 37.3% of the popular vote becoming the largest party in the Reichstag, with 230 out of 608 seats.
Federal elections were again held in Germany on 5 March 1933. Two months earlier, on 30 January 1933, President Paul von Hindenburg had appointed Hitler as Chancellor.
People queue to vote in the German Federal Election, March 1933 (Image: Reddit)
The National Socialists registered a large increase in votes in the March 1933 election, achieving 43.9 percent of the vote and winning 288 seats. Jews, Poles and other ethnic minorities were allowed to vote without any interference.
Percentage-wise, the NSDAP result is similar to the 1979 General Election in the UK when the Conservative party, led by Margaret Thatcher, was elected with 43.9% of the vote, and the 1997 General Election when the Labour Party, led by Tony Blair, was elected with 43.2% of the vote.
Top five winners of the March 1933 German federal election
The NSDAP were still short of a majority and needed the votes of their coalition partner, the German National People's Party (DNVP), for a bare working majority in the Reichstag.
Although the Nazi-DNVP coalition had enough seats to conduct the basic business of government, Hitler needed a two-thirds majority to pass the Enabling Act, a law which allowed him to enact laws without the approval of the Reichstag.
Although the Nazi-DNVP coalition had enough seats to conduct the basic business of government, Hitler needed a two-thirds majority to pass the Enabling Act, a law which allowed him to enact laws without the approval of the Reichstag.
Hitler finally obtained the two-thirds majority by persuading the Catholic Centre Party to support him. The bill was passed on 23 March with 444 votes for and 94 against.
Hitler was right in his denunciation of democracy; this we indeed ought to know now by our own experience in Britain today. Bruce Anderson in the Sunday Telegraph (29th March, 1987) said of Britain’s Afro-Asian invasion: “The voters were never consulted: if they had been we would have had no large-scale coloured immigration.” So whereas Hitler’s dictatorship gave the people what they wanted, and preserved Germany for the German people, Britain’s democracy gives the British people what they do not want and calls it “freedom”.
Parliamentary elections were held again in Germany on 12 November 1933. They were the first since the Nazi Party seized complete power with the passage of the Enabling Act in March.
All opposition parties had been banned by this time, and voters were presented with a single list containing Nazis and 22 non-party guests of the Nazi Party. These guests, all fully supported the regime of Adolf Hitler.
Below - Hitler's election poster for the November 12, 1933 Parliamentary election aimed at securing the Catholic vote.
Hitler was right in his denunciation of democracy; this we indeed ought to know now by our own experience in Britain today. Bruce Anderson in the Sunday Telegraph (29th March, 1987) said of Britain’s Afro-Asian invasion: “The voters were never consulted: if they had been we would have had no large-scale coloured immigration.” So whereas Hitler’s dictatorship gave the people what they wanted, and preserved Germany for the German people, Britain’s democracy gives the British people what they do not want and calls it “freedom”.
Parliamentary elections were held again in Germany on 12 November 1933. They were the first since the Nazi Party seized complete power with the passage of the Enabling Act in March.
Election banner with the slogan One People, one Leader, one "Yes" for the November 12, 1933 election (Image Wikimedia commons, Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-K0930-502 / CC-BY-SA 3.0)
All opposition parties had been banned by this time, and voters were presented with a single list containing Nazis and 22 non-party guests of the Nazi Party. These guests, all fully supported the regime of Adolf Hitler.
Below - Hitler's election poster for the November 12, 1933 Parliamentary election aimed at securing the Catholic vote.
Image source: Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, DHM 1988/284.41
Why is it in a Catholic's interest to vote for the parliamentary list of Adolf Hitler? Because in the National Socialist state and through the Reichskonkordat
1. The Faith is protected,
2. Peace with the Church is assured,
3. Public morality is preserved,
4. Sunday is hallowed,
5. Catholic schools are maintained,
6. The Catholic conscience is no longer burdened,
7. A Catholic has equal rights before the law and in the life of the nation,
8. Catholic organisations and associations, insofar as they exclusively serve religious, charitable and cultural purposes, can operate freely.
Therefore a Catholic is obliged on 12 November [1933] to vote thus:
Referendum: yes
Parliamentary election: Adolf HitlerThis election set the tone for all further elections and referenda held in the Nazi era. Official results showed 92 percent of the voters approved the Nazi list, on a turnout of 96 percent.
Result of the November 1933 German Parliamentary election
Upon being elected in 1933, Germany's new leader asked the German people to give him just three years to demonstrate the advantages of National Socialism over other forms of political philosophy which are designed to favour minorities at the expense of the majority rather than, as National Socialism quite rightly did, put the welfare of the majority first.
When the three years had passed, the Parliamentary election on 29 March 1936, gave the German people a simple choice: "Do you approve of National Socialism or not?"
Translation:
Here is the result:
To achieve 98.8% support after three years in government is something today's leaders can only dream about.
When the three years had passed, the Parliamentary election on 29 March 1936, gave the German people a simple choice: "Do you approve of National Socialism or not?"
Propaganda leaflet dropped over Germany from the D-LZ129 Hindenburg for the March 1936 Parliamentary election (Image Wikimedia)
Translation:
- Adolph Hitler
- in his historic speech in the Reichstag:
“I once undertook a 14-year struggle to get the German people to agree with my ideals. Then, thanks to their trust in me, I was summoned by the honourable General Field Marshall [Paul von Hindenburg.] But since then I have directed all my energy to achieving the glorious state of consciousness of being inseparably connected to my people, as man and as Führer”. [March 7, 1936]
Therefore, on 29 March... [date of referendum]
- Vote for the Führer!
Here is the result:
To achieve 98.8% support after three years in government is something today's leaders can only dream about.
