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[–] grue 56 points 10 months ago (1 children)

In the Weimar Republic, the Nazis never got more than something like 30% of the vote. Fascist "loud minorities" are still incredibly dangerous.

[–] TheGrandNagus 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

They got 44% of the vote in 1933, and another fascist party got 8%. Then there were a couple more far-right parties.

Two weeks later, Hitler passed the Enablement Act with the support of all the non-left-wing parties, effectively giving him full dictatorial control.

Fascists weren't a loud minority for Nazi Germany, they were the majority.