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German parliamentary election and referendum, 1936...
German parliamentary election and referendum, 1936...
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March 30, 1936
THE NEW YORK TIMES, March 30, 1936
* German parliamentary election and referendum, 1936
* Adolph Hitler - military occupation of the Rhineland
The top of the front page has a two column headline: "HITLER GETS BIGGEST VOTE; MANY BLANKS COUNTED IN; 542,953 ARE INVALIDATED" with subheads. (see)
Other news, sports and advertisements of the day. Complete with all 40 pages, rag edition in nice condition.
AI notes: The event commonly associated with March 30, 1936 was the official reporting of results from the German Reichstag election and referendum held on March 29, 1936, a tightly controlled plebiscitary vote under Adolf Hitler’s Nazi dictatorship rather than a genuine democratic election. Voters were presented with a single, Nazi-approved list of Reichstag candidates and simultaneously asked to endorse Hitler’s remilitarization of the Rhineland, carried out earlier that month in defiance of the Treaty of Versailles. With all opposition parties banned, the press and campaign environment monopolized by the regime, and large segments of the population—most notably Jews—already disenfranchised, the ballot offered no real choice. The regime announced an implausibly high turnout of nearly 99 percent and an approval vote of roughly 98–99 percent, results publicized on March 30 as proof of overwhelming national unity behind Hitler’s leadership and foreign policy. In reality, the vote functioned as propaganda to legitimize Nazi rule at home and project popular support abroad, illustrating how elections in Germany after 1933 had been transformed into instruments of authoritarian control rather than expressions of popular sovereignty.
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