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With the whole Fatherland convinced that last week's Reichstag election could produce no Government upset, Germans voted almost without violence for the first time in years, with these striking results...
First blatant Adolf Hitler's brown-shirted Nazi (National Socialist) Party was "tamed" by the first setback received since they started two years ago on their skyrocket rise. The Nazis dropped from 230 Reichstag seats to 195 and in each of Germany's 35 electoral districts their vote fell off, nowhere by less than 10,000 ballots. Nazis suffered their worst setback in President Paul von Hindenburg's home district of East Prussia...
Second the Fatherland's Communists more than won back last week the votes they lost to Nazis in the previous Reichstag election (TIME, Aug. 8). The Red gains fulfilled Herr Hitler's campaign prediction that aristocratic Chancellor von Papen's reactionary Cabinet would prove "an involuntary stalking horse for Bolshevism...
Returns in the present Seventh Reichstag election compare as follows with those of the Sixth Reichstag which was elected July 31 and dissolved by Presidential decree as it was in process of voting "no confidence" in the von Papen Cabinet (TIME, Sept. 19). Popular vote: Vote Per-Vote Per-Party (last week) cent (last July) cent...
...Reichstag Seats...