Word: ja
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nazi war veterans in wheel chairs displayed the challenging placard: "German, hast thou voted Ja? If not, our sacrifice was in vain...
...remote seaports Germans piled aboard steamers to register with the captains their "Ja...
Nazi wrath knew no bounds when His Eminence Michael Cardinal von Faulhaber, Archbishop of Munich, exhorted German Catholics last week to vote "according to your conscience." Nazis stormed that the Cardinal should have said "Vote Ja!" In a speech of passionate denunciation General Goring spoke of "black moles" (priests) as little better than "Red rats" (Socialists)-despite the fact that Chancellor Hitler is nominally a Catholic...
After that it was all over but the voting and the buttons. After voting every German had an opportunity to buy for five pfennigs (2?) a button stamped "Ja, 1933!" Few failed to buy. Scowling Nazi strong-arm men warned, "to vote Nein and wear a Ja button is to wear...
Returns came in very slowly, due to the fact that every polling place was staffed by inexperienced new clerks, Nazi clerks. Their figures showed that 40,601,577 Germans voted Ja, 2,100,765 voted Nein...