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Tramp, tramp in field boots and brown shirts, Deputies of the new Reichstag chosen in Germany's "Ja Election" (TIME, Nov. 20) marched into Berlin's Kroll Opera House last week, poured in brown streams down the aisles and oozed into their seats. Almost the only ununiformed Deputy was Vice Chancellor Franz von Papen, a Papal Chamberlain and Nazi-dom's valued link with Rome. His immaculate cutaway made a black plum in the brown Nazi pudding. For the first time since the War no Deputy was a Jew, a Communist, a Socialist, a woman...
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...
Also voted on was the question of electing a new Reichstag all members of which had been picked by Chancellor Hitler and lumped together on the ballot under a single circle in which the voter could write "Ja." If he wrote anything else or nothing his paper was thrown out as "spoiled." Official score for the new Reichstag: 39,626,647 Jas and 3,348,362 spoiled ballots...
...protective custody" (often the prelude to a Nazi prison camp) of H. R. H. Duke Albrecht, head of the former Royal House of Wurtemberg, because he refused to vote. Jailors of prison camps proudly reported that the Communists, Socialists, Jews and other anti-Hitlerites in their custody had voted "Ja" in nearly all cases. Thus at the dread prison camp in Brandenburg only 1.2% of the prisoners plucked up courage to vote "Nein...