Home > Back to Search Results >
German parliamentary election and referendum, 1936...
German parliamentary election and referendum, 1936...
Item # 723174
March 30, 1936
CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, March 30, 1936
* German Reichstag election and referendum, 1936
* Adolph Hitler's dictatorship - plebiscitary vote
* re. remilitarization of the Rhineland - military
The front page has a one column heading: "GERMANS BACK UP HITLER WITH A RECORD VOTE" with subhead and small photo. (see images) Another related photo is on the back page.
Complete with all 30 pages, rag edition in nice condition. A few small binding holes along the spine.
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.
Category: The 20th Century
Available Now
$48.00
