The Nazi party was the second largest in the 1930 elections and became the largest party in parliament in 1932. They didn't need to use violence to size power when they could cut a deal with the Centre (Catholic) party and the Conservative party. The ones who went to violence first was the KPD (communist party) who were losing votes and members of parliament for years; of course when Moscow told them that the Social Democrats were the enemy they spurned an offer to work together against the Nazis at a time when the two of them together had more members of parliament than the Nazis. No need to use violence to sieze power when your opponents are either stupid or greedy.
You need to at least learn the history of the period if you are going to try to play this game.
> Hitler saw the party as a revolutionary organisation, whose aim was the overthrow of the Weimar Republic, which he saw as controlled by the socialists, Jews and the "November criminals" who had betrayed the German soldiers in 1918. The SA ("storm troopers", also known as "Brownshirts") were founded as a party militia in 1921 and began violent attacks on other parties.
> Approximately two thousand Nazis were marching to the Feldherrnhalle, in the city centre, when they were confronted by a police cordon, which resulted in the deaths of 16 Nazi party members and four police officers.
I guess history is difficult when you only learn it through random-walk in Wikipedia. The Nazis were not in government in the 20s when this feeble attempt occurred. In fact, they were a relatively unknown regional party at this point. After imprisonment for the Beer-Hall Putsch, during which he wrote Mein Kampf, Hitler emerged better-known and prepared to plan. Over the following years they worked to become a legitimate party, entered government, and did not actually need to engage in direct violence to attain the absolute control that was desired.
> I guess history is difficult when you only learn it through random-walk in Wikipedia.
Please cut the smug attitude. I’m trying my best not to engage with this kind of low-brow personal attack.
> Over the following years they worked to become a legitimate party, entered government, and did not actually need to engage in direct violence to attain the absolute control that was desired.
This is just flat wrong. You’re ignoring the violent intimidations of the SA during the entire decade from 1920-1930.
> Throughout the 1920s and into the 1930s, members of the SA were often involved in street fights, called Zusammenstöße (collisions), with members of the Communist Party (KPD).
You need to at least learn the history of the period if you are going to try to play this game.