The Nazis break through at the polls
1930 · Event
A year into the Depression, the NSDAP leaps from twelve Reichstag seats to 107 — from fringe to Germany's second party overnight. Brüning already governs by emergency decree; parliament is dying, and the street armies grow with the dole queues.
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