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Poster presents the first of countless success reports of the Nazi government. "For the farmers," there was reinforcement of regressive policies. "For the middle classes" it was the beginning of the great credit expansion that ushered in the famous upswing of the German economy after 1933. (Though President of the Reichsbank Hjalmar Schacht's policies led to further inflation). The result of the Reichstag election of March 5, 1933 was that the NSDAP won 5.5 million new voters and thus received 44% of the votes cast. But the two-thirds majority required to amend the constitution was not achieved. National Socialists and German Nationalists together held only 340 of 647 seats in the Reichstag. The SPD, which was severely handicapped in the election campaign, lost 66,000 votes, and the KPD, which was almost silenced, loses more than one million. 81 elected Communist deputies were not admitted to the Reichstag.

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Wenn Hindenburg sein Vertrauen Adolf Hitler schenken kann.., Leo Baeck Institute, r (f) DD 232.5 A7 1963 [V.3].