This election poster calls on Germans to vote in support of Hitler's hand-picked candidates to the Reichstag (the German parliament). The poster details Hitler's actions and reads, in part: 'In 8 months two and a quarter million Germans have work and bread again! Class warfare and its parties are eliminated! The Bolsheviks are smashed. Particularism is overcome! A Reich of order and cleanliness is established. One People. One Reich. One Leader. This is what Hitler has accomplished..."
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When Adolf Hitler came to power in January 1933, Germany was potentially one of the strongest powers in Europe. Hitler was determined to overturn the remaining military and territorial provisions of the Treaty of Versailles, which had followed World War I. He aimed to include German-speaking people in the Reich as a preliminary step toward the restoration of German power and the creation of a German empire in Europe. Large numbers of German-speaking people lived in Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. Within 10 years of Hitler's appointment as chancellor, Austria was incorporated into Germany, Czechoslovakia was partitioned, and Poland was invaded by German forces, unleashing World War II.
Item View![Adolf Hitler, the newly appointed chancellor, greets German president Paul von Hindenburg. [LCID: 31385]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/e65ba710-63c0-4787-aaa5-438af9fbf383.jpg "Adolf Hitler, the newly appointed chancellor, greets German president Paul von Hindenburg. [LCID: 31385]")
Adolf Hitler, the newly appointed chancellor, greets German president Paul von Hindenburg. Berlin, Germany, January 30, 1933.
Item View![Nazi Storm Troopers (SA) block the entrance to a trade union building that they have occupied. [LCID: 78571]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/ada2b6b4-6f7b-4197-b9dc-18533ebf56a4.jpg "Nazi Storm Troopers (SA) block the entrance to a trade union building that they have occupied. [LCID: 78571]")
Nazi Storm Troopers (SA) block the entrance to a trade union building that they have occupied. SA detachments occupied union offices nationwide, forcing the dissolution of the unions. Berlin, Germany, May 2, 1933.
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