Report of the police division of the Prussian Ministry of the Interior, quoting Nazi leaders (Terboven and Frick) on the party's plan to seize power and rule by dictatorship and terror

THE NATIONAL SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY AS AN ASSOCIATION HOSTILE TO THE STATE AND TO THE REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT AND GUILTY OF TREASONABLE ACTIVITY.
A confidential report of the Police Division, Prussian Ministry of the Interior of 1930.
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On October 7, 1929, National Socialist District Leader Ter-boven of Essen announced in a meeting:
This weakness is especially known to Severing, who symbolizes the present State, and he intends to render a service to the State, which is breathing its last, but this too will no longer save the present corrupt parliamentarian system * * * But I give
such a dictatorship only four weeks. Then the people will awaken, then the National Socialists will come to power, and then there will not be enough lamp posts in Germany * * *
The Bolshevik government is sitting on a volcano, and the German government is in the same situation. The National Socialists will do everything to further this explosion. . . . When in the future we call the present representatives of the government to account, they will not be able to defend their actions as representatives of a parliamentarian system. They will have to answer with their heads to the German people, and particularly to the National Socialists, for their actions in the past. If this struggle continues with growing intensity the wardheelers of the Marxist movement will hit the ceiling and the National Socialists
will see that they won't get back on the ground on their feet
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The National Socialists will march into the new Reichstag with thirty members; then there will be black eyes every day in this Reichstag; thus this corrupt parlimentarian system will be further discredited; disorder and chaos will set in, and then the National Socialists will judge the movement to have arrived in which they arc to seize the political power.
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On October 18, 1929, Reichstag deputy and present Thuringian Minister of the Interior Doctor Frick discussed the fight against the Young Plan in a meeting in Pyritz:
This fateful struggle will first be taken up with the ballot, but this cannot continue indefinitely, for history has taught us that in a battle, blood must be shed, and iron broken. The ballot is the beginning of this fateful struggle.
We are determined to promulgate by force that which we preach. Just as Mussolini exterminated the Marxists in Italy, so must we also succeed in accomplishing the same through dictatorship and terror.
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STATISTICAL YEARBOOK OF THE GERMAN REICH . 1933
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J ' XXI. Elections and Plebiscites
1. Elections to the German Reichstag from 1919 to 1933
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Result of Elections to the Reichstag
Qualified Voters Votes Cast Designation of Party To the National Assembly 19 Jan. 1919 I Election Period 1920/22 II Election Period 4 May '24 III Election Period 7 Dec. '24 IV Election Period 20 May '28 V Election Period 14 Sep. '30 VI Election Period 31 Jul. '32 VII Election Period 6 Nov. '32 ' VIII Election Period 5 Mar. '33
TOTAL NUMBER OF POPULATION AND VOTERS BY THOUSANDS
Population of last census 63,052,0 09,198,8 59,198,8 59,198,8 62,410,6 62,410,6 62,410,6 62,410,6 62,410,6
Qualified Voters 36,766,5 35,949,8 38,375,0 38,987,3 41,224,7 42,957 7 44,226,8 44,373,7 44,685,8
NUMBER OF VOTES CAST IN THOUSANDS
Valid Votes 30,400,3 28,196,3 29,281,8 30,290,1 30,753,3 34,970,9 36,882,4 35,471,8 39,343,3
% of voters 82,68 78,43 76,30 77,69 74,60 8i,41 83,39 79,93 88,04
Invalid votes 124,5 267,2 427,6 414,9 412,5 254 9 279,7 287,3 311,7
% of voters 0,34 0,74 1,11 1,06 1,00 0,69 0,63 0,64 0,69