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Nazi leaders exploited the March 5 election results to push through the Enabling
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March 5

Nazi Victory Marches: Hitler Gains Power After German Election

Nazi leaders exploited the March 5 election results to push through the Enabling Act just eighteen days later, stripping the Reichstag of all power and establishing Hitler's dictatorship. This legislative maneuver banned every other political party and dissolved the parliament, ensuring no multi-party democracy would return to Germany until after World War II.

March 5, 1933

93 years ago

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