(marc_CH) wrote in message ...
In article wrote...

Many Germans simply feared the Nazis and went along meekly - too
afraid to say even Booh !

And where did you get this nonsense from? You may be forgetting, but the
Nazis were *elected*.

Sort of...halfway elected. If by elected you mean "got the most seats
in elections to the Reichstag, but couldn't form a majority
government, in a situation where parliamentary government had already
broken down and the president was basically ruling by fiat with a
small cadre of amenable reactionaries, who then decided to bring
Hitler in in the hopes that their dominant position in the government
could tame him, while his popularity would give them the popular
support their rule needed, but were then outwitted by Hitler, who then
managed to win a majority in a highly dubious election after being
appointed chancellor." ObWI: No proportional representation in Weimar
Germany. Hitler gets an absolute majority in elections of July 1932!