The Nazi coalition won only 51.8 percent yet leveraged it into full dictatorship

Evidence

In the elections for the Eighth Reichstag which took place on 5 Marchin spite of terrorism and officially sanctioned despotismthe ruling coalition between the National Socialists (Nazis) and the German National People’s Party won just 51.8 per cent of the votes. But this was enough of a mandate for Hitler to use it as a springboard for the continuing extension of Nazi rulethanks to the compliance of the middle-class centre parties, who legalized the Reichstag’s self-destruction with the Enabling Act of 24 March. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 147

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: A bare parliamentary plurality, granted by centrist compliance, sufficed to legalize the republic’s self-destruction — a compact case study in how democratic forms can author their own abolition.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 147
• XREF: connects to: The Nazi rejection of civil-service neutrality marked a deliberate turn toward dictatorship — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2469

Broader Connections

• The Nazi rejection of civil-service neutrality marked a deliberate turn toward dictatorship #corroborates (0.80) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2469