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Topic: German election, 1933


  
  Elections in Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Elections in Germany gives information on election and election results in Germany, including elections to the Federal Diet (the lower house of the federal parliament), the Landtage of the various states, and local elections.
German nationals over the age of 18 are eligible to vote, including most Germans resident outside Germany, and eligibility for candidacy is essentially the same as eligibility to vote.
On 18 March 1990 the first and only free elections in the history of the GDR were held, producing a government whose major mandate was to negotiate an end to itself and its state.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elections_in_Germany   (592 words)

  
 German federal election, 2005 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
German federal elections took place on September 18, 2005 to elect the members of the 16th German Bundestag, the federal parliament of Germany.
Early election polls during summer 2005 from 6 organizations showed a solid lead for the CDU/CSU with a share of the vote ranging between 41% and 43%, and the SPD trailing at between 32% and 34%.
On the eve of the election, the CDU enjoyed a 9% lead over the SPD (42% and 33% respectively), with neither party likely to be have enough seats with their preferred coalition partners to form a government.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/German_federal_election,_2005   (3095 words)

  
 german
Germans contributed substantially to its growth: By 1841, 28 percent of the total population was German; 10 years earlier the figure was only 5 percent, By 1850, when Cincinnati was known as the "Queen City of the West," the German community (including those born in America) made up half its population.
German involvement in the labor movement did not sit well with nativists, who, in the last decades of the 19th century, were again seeking support for anti-immigration laws.
German Americans, the societies members insisted, were neither "mongrels with a divided allegiance" nor "hyphenates." In keeping with this goal, they named their organization after Baron Friedrich von Steuben, a hero of the War of Independence.
www.theseverts.net /German.htm   (13046 words)

  
 Armseliges Deutschland: War Defeat, Reparations, Inflation, and the Year 1923 in German History. By Robert Selig
Germans could live with a peace based on Wilson's points, because the war had devastated French, not German, soil and the Bolshevik revolution had removed the military threat in the east.
The German Village is the largest privately funded historic neighborhood in the United States—233 acres of "living" history and a reputed architectural style showcasing carved limestone lintels, clay chimney pots, and slate roofs.
In comparison, for the "off-year" election in November 1994, turnout by the voting-age population in the United States was 36 percent; turnout for the 1996 presidential election was only 46 percent.
www.germanlife.com /Archives/1998/9810_01.html   (10061 words)

  
 1933 Election
The best the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP) could do in a election was 37.3 per cent of the vote they gained in July 1932.
Hermann Goering called a meeting of important industrialists where he told them that the 1933 General Election could be the last in Germany for a very long time.
KPD candidates in the election were arrested and Hermann Goering announced that the Nazi Party planned "to exterminate" German communists.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /GER1933.htm   (523 words)

  
 Nazi Posters: 1933-1945
This poster links the German Labor Front (the DAF) to World War I. The point is that just as soldiers were comrades regardless of their standing in civil life, so too all German workers were comrades in the DAF, regardless of whether they were white or blue collar.
Allied bombing of German cities had increased to the level that children in cities were being sent to the countryside for safety.
The German term Kinderlandverschickung translates as "sending children to the countryside." The poster encourages parents to register their children aged 3-14 for the program, which was not compulsory.
www.calvin.edu /academic/cas/gpa/posters2.htm   (2698 words)

  
 Bloomberg.com: Germany
The last time the confidence vote was used to bring about early elections, by Kohl in 1982, a group of deputies challenged the step in Germany's highest court, arguing that the then chancellor was abusing the constitution because he had a parliamentary majority at the time.
While both Brandt and Kohl won the elections that followed their moves to dissolve parliament, opinion polls indicate that Schroeder may not be as successful.
Germans would elect the opposition Christian Democrats in an early election with a 17 percentage-point lead over Schroeder's Social Democrats, a poll conducted by market research company Infratest Dimap for WDR television showed.
www.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000100&sid=a.g3NeSQaw.4&refer=germany   (792 words)

  
 Nazi Germany: The Decrees of 1933
Sections 114, 115, 117, 118, 123, 124, and 153 of the Constitution of the German Reich are suspended until further notice.
Although Hitler won the office of German chancellor in legal fashion (the Nazis, after all, were the largest group in the Reichstag or lower house of parliament)), he was, of course, determined to rule Germany without the restraint of a democratically elected parliament.
This was achieved by calling a new election (which increased the Nazi vote) and using force and intimidation against the existing parties, especially those of the Socialists and Communists, many of whose elected representatives were jailed as political enemies or forced to flee the country.
web.jjay.cuny.edu /~jobrien/reference/ob60.html   (789 words)

  
 Gray Science - Overview p. 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The German election of 1933 offered Germans three choices: Hitler and National Socialism, Marxist communism, or an extension of the Weimar republic.
Most Germans detested the ideals of communism and were tired of the passive ineffectiveness of the old republic, but it was a close race.
After his election to the position of Chancellor, Hitler used racial discrimination to kindle a sense of national pride in the German working class.
people.clarkson.edu /~sheilafw/classes/hp201/grayscience/NaziScience-Overview1.htm   (123 words)

  
 Germany HQ : German Elections
An examination of the 1848 revolution in Prussia and the Germanic states and theresponse.
Results of recent and historic elections including the Weimar Republic (1919-1933),federal states elections and the last elections in the GDR 1990.
Election results for March 25, 2001; provided by the American Institute forContemporary German Studies.
germanyhq.com /germanelections/index.php   (724 words)

  
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The collection includes propaganda leaflets, newspapers, booklets, pamphlets, stickers, and postcards distributed by the various political parties in Germany, prior to the election of 1932 and Nazi period.
Postcards and one envelope of stickers from the 1932 elections representing a number of political parties.
Stickers, leaflets and pamphlets issued during the 1932 election by a number of political parties.
special.lib.umn.edu /findaid/xml/mss038.xml   (310 words)

  
 Third Reich 1933-1945 (Germany)
On 30 January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor with a cabinet in coalition with the German National People's Party (Deutschnationale Volkspartei, DNVP, a reactionary, largely monarchist party).
Immediately after the March 1933 elections, new flags were created, including the Swastika Flag (Hakenkreuzfahne) which was used until 1945.
However, its use and its incorporation into other flags and ensigns were modified after the elections of late 1935.
www.fotw.net /flags/de193345.html   (311 words)

  
 How Hitler Became a Dictator   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In the presidential election held on March 13, 1932, there were four candidates: the incumbent, Field Marshall Paul von Hindenburg, Hitler, and two minor candidates, Ernst Thaelmann and Theodore Duesterberg.
As long as a German citizen kept his head down, worked hard, took care of his family, sent his children to the public schools and the Hitler Youth organization, and, most important, didn’t involve himself in political dissent against the government, a visit by the Gestapo was very unlikely.
The Nazi terror in the early years affected the lives of relatively few Germans and a newly arrived observer was somewhat surprised to see that the people of this country did not seem to feel that they were being cowed....
www.fff.org /freedom/fd0403a.asp   (1888 words)

  
 The American Experience | America and the Holocaust | Timeline (1933-1945)
Among other things they deprive German Jews of the right to vote and hold public office, and they outlaw marriages between Jews and non-Jews.
February - June -- Wagner-Rogers Bill proposes admitting 20,000 German refugee children to the U.S. The bill dies in committee.
November -- Germans have killed more than 16,000 Polish civilians in first six weeks of war.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/holocaust/timeline   (356 words)

  
 The Economic Aspects of the Nazi Conspiracy
This was shortly before the German election of 5 March 1933.
In a memorandum dated 22 February 1933, found in the personal files of Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, Krupp briefly described this same meeting, and recalled that he had expressed to Hitler the gratitude of the 25 industrialists present.
In April 1933, after Hitler had entrenched himself in power, Gustav Krupp, as Chairman of the Reich Association of German Industry, which was the largest association of German industrialists, submitted to Hitler the plan of that association for the reorganization of German industry.
www.vex.net /~nizkor/hweb/imt/nca/nca-01/nca-01-08-economic-mobilization-02.html   (1499 words)

  
 Holocaust Chronology of 1933
the German parliament then passed the Decree of the Reich President for the Protection of the Nation and State.
During the last free election in Germany, ostensibly called to obtain a vote of confidence, the Nazi party wins nearly 44 percent of the popular vote, more than twice as many votes as the next closest political party, the Social Democrats, with 18 percent.
Outbreak of rioting against German Jews by members of the S.A. and Stahlhelm (Nationalist ex­servicemen's organization).
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Holocaust/Chronology_1933.html   (391 words)

  
 Card Games: Commercial Games
Although this election game includes a large board for laying out the cards and scoring, it is essentially a card game with an unusual trick-taking mechanism.
Each trick represents an election race consisting of a "primary" during which players organise themselves into factions and a "campaign" that determines the winning faction, members of which may score for cards won in the trick.
It was later licenced to the German publisher Intelli and to the American publisher J. Pressman & Co. in 1980.
www.pagat.com /com   (11676 words)

  
 Truth Detector: Hitler Wasn't Elected, Mr. Turner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Party circles badly depressed and dejected.' Since Hindenberg had not received a majority of the vote, however, a runoff election had to be held among the top three vote-getters.
Even though Hitler had badly lost the presidential election, he was drawing ever-larger crowds during the congressional election.
On 23 March of 1933, forced to have its session in the nearby Kroll Opera Building, the Reichstag takes away its own powers, transfers them to Hitler, and becomes a show parliament for the Fuehrer and the Third Reich without any political weight.
www.rushlimbaugh.com /home/daily/site_012605/content/truth_detector.guest.html   (1314 words)

  
 Nazi Propaganda (Pre-1933 Material)
This page is part of the German Propaganda Archive, a collection of translations of propaganda material from the Nazi and East German eras.
"We are Voting for Hitler": A 1932 election appeal (7 March 1932).
Communists!: A 1932 election flyer aimed at communists in Berlin.
www.calvin.edu /academic/cas/gpa/pre1933.htm   (494 words)

  
 Hitler_Steps_to_dictatorship
Calling an election - and taking advantage of the Reichstag fire - he got the Reichstag to pass the Enabling Act.
Hitler held a general election, appealing to the German people to give him a clear mandate.
In their place, Hitler put the German Labour Front which reduced workers' pay and took away the right to strike.
www.johndclare.net /Nazi_Germany1.htm   (692 words)

  
 Bush Skeletons
Following discussions with Kennedy in May 1938, the German Ambassador to the U.K., Herbert von Dirksen, told Berlin that the anti-Semitic Kennedy was "Germany's best friend" in London.
The U.S. did most of the fighting against the Japanese; the Soviets did most of the fighting against the Germans, and in one of the greatest battles in history, turned the tide of the war at Stalingrad, and chased the Nazis all the way back to Berlin.
The U.S. supported the military dictatorship in Greece from 1967 to 1974 - a fascist regime that suspended elections; banned all strikes, demonstrations and criticism of the regime; and all gatherings except for religious purposes in churches.
www.ocnsignal.com /skeletons.htm   (1341 words)

  
 Teaching Germans About Their Jewish Past | Germany | Deutsche Welle | 24.03.2005
Experts say German history lessons are skewed, giving too much weight to the Holocaust and failing to teach kids about the rich heritage of German Jewry, in which Jews were much more than merely the Nazis' victims.
Heuberger was part of an illustrious panel commissioned by the Leo Baeck Institute (LBI), an international organization devoted to the study of German Jewry, to draft guidelines to ensure that pupils learn that Jews have played a fundamental -- and positive -- role in European and German culture.
The newspaper "Der Aufbau," originally published in German for Jewish exiles in New York, is turning 70.
www.dw-world.de /dw/article/0,1564,1528440,00.html   (943 words)

  
 AYN RAND & OBJECTIVISM DEFINE INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS.
It is a matter of record that in the German election of 1933, the Communist Party was ordered by its leaders to vote for the Nazis--with the explanation that they could later fight the Nazis for power, but first they had to help destroy their common enemy: capitalism and its parliamentary form of government.
In place of the despised 'private individuals,' the Germans heard daily or hourly about a different kind of entity, a supreme entity, whose will, it was said, is what determines the course and actions of the state: the nation, the whole, the group.
Over and over, the Germans heard the idea that underlies the advocacy of omnipotent government, the idea that totalitarians of every kind stress as the justification of their total states: collectivism.
snow.prohosting.com /rights/indexphilo.htm   (10015 words)

  
 Events in the News - The World
Nazi Party wins 37 per cent of the Reichstag seats in the German election.
In December, Edward VIII abdicates from the British throne; succeeded by George VI.
German airship Hindenburg destroyed in flames when landing in US.
www.slsa.sa.gov.au /exhibitions/boland/WorldTLvertical.htm   (1926 words)

  
 Timeline 1879-1882   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
1879 Mar 8, Otto Hahn, German co-discoverer of nuclear fission, was born.
1879 Oct 29, Franz JHMM von Papen, German diplomat and chancellor (1932), was born.
He had dubbed the collection "Priam’s Treasure." The archeologist bequeathed the treasure "to the German people for undivided and eternal preservation in the capital of the Reich" in 1880.
timelines.ws /1879_1882.HTML   (13985 words)

  
 Did The Communists Vote Nazi In 1933? - Objectivism Online Forum
I thought that _The Ominous Parallels_ had a reference to that event as well, but I ran about a dozen searches on the CD Rom and I couldn't find anything about it.
I only found quotes from the German Liberal Democrat Party about working with the Nazis to fight the common enemy of Capitalism.
But again, I'm a newbie with that CD Rom and its search feature, and my mom's computer is slow.
forum.objectivismonline.net /index.php?showtopic=3739   (472 words)

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