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In the elections of 1932, the National Socialist German Workers Celebration (the NDSAP or “Nazi” celebration) gained a plurality of seats in the Reichstag, the reelected President Hindenburg appointed Adolph Hitler as Chancellor. A mixture of the passage of a number of repressive decrees, the burning of the Reichstag constructing, new elections in 1933 and the death of Hindenburg in 1934 solidified Hitler and the Nazi’s handle of the German state. A subsequent rearming of the German military, in breach of the Treaty of Versailles, and clearly expansionist policies by the ruling government set it on a course of conflict...