Word: electioneerings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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*Last week Prince Rupprecht was the only man in his home town of Leutstetten to refuse to vote in Adolf Hitler's Ja election.
A forced election on ballots on which voters could mark only Ja might seem a farce to democracies, but to Adolf Hitler and his propaganda minister, Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, it was a chance to stage the greatest mass demonstration of national solidarity the world has ever seen.
"Voting begins at 9 in the morning and ends at 6 in the evening. No German Comrade dare be absent, and I urge all voters most strongly to vote during the morning hours. By 1 o'clock in the afternoon the election must be over. During the afternoon I...
The Show. For weeks a mounting wave of election propaganda filled the German Press. It spread like a rash to billboards, walls, streamers in the streets. Daily there were parades and speeches. Overworked Realmleader Hitler tried to limit his own campaigning to one speech every two days, leaving the rest...
Like two great bolognas, the Graf Zeppelin and the new Hindenburg (LZ-129) last week floated over Germany on a propaganda tour. While the Graf hovered above Bavaria sprinkling election handbills, the Hindenburg drifted beside it with a mammoth loudspeaker bleating: "The Führer's purpose is peace...