[nkycincinnatikid]

In the last free Wiemar election (if you consider running a gauntlet of communist and nazi thugs to reach the polls a free election) the national socialists recieved about 30% of the vote. I must assume your history books have George Mcgovern beating incumbent President George Wallace in 1972. Ugh.

[anotherview]

You really are thick. Weimar Germany was a multi-party system, not a two party system. To compare, the Likud in Israel today holds one third of the seats in the Knesset. That makes them the largest party with more than twice the votes of the next largest party (Labour). Likud has an unbreakable hold on power until the next election in 2007.

The National Socialists were in a similar position in Germany after 1932. By 1936 the Nazis had brutally suppressed all opposition. They didn't need to. They would have won an overwhelming majority in a free election. Indeed, Hitler had many supporters and admirers in the U.S. He took a bankrupt nation and turned it into a world power both economically and militarily in a few short years.

I have studied history. You seem to ignore it if it doesn't meet with your interpretation of the facts.

Tell me: is your purpose to defend Herr Hohman and his speech?