Why do people always say Hitler was elected?

Because he totally wasn't.

Greatest thing Hindenburg ever did.

Because while he was appointed to the chancellery By Paul von Hindenburg, the 1933 elections did see the NSDAP winning more offices than any other party, Hitler, shortly after becoming the chancellor passed the enabling house with the support of almost all major German political parties.

And then all those parties came to regret it.

The parties that voted against (Social Democrats and Communists) sure were pissed at the moderates for siding with Hitler on that one.

Reactionary to prevent the communist from taking power.

See I figured that many of Hitler's votes probably had more to do with him posting gangs of SA thugs outside polling stations than people thinking he was the best choice to lead Germany. While you can say he was elected in a way, it still doesn't make sense in the context that most people usually use it when they want an example of a dictator being elected by popular vote. After all, can you really say the guy won by being most popular when he effectively outlawed the two largest parties in parliament before the election?

I wonder about this as well, but then he was more elected than Churchill, so I let it lie.

The question really is, would he have been elected?

And the answer is overwhelmingly ja!

Hitler was in the right place at the right time. He was elected because of it.

The point that the OP is trying to make is that he wasn't elected, he was appointed.

A very arguable subject. One must ask if he wasn't "appointed" would he have been elected anyways?

I agree that Hitler's SA definitely affected voting of certain people in certain places, but he still did not win a majority, he became the leader of a coalition government for the time before the enabling act passed.

I wonder if anyone read Hitler's my struggle and went "Nigger you fucking crazy"

It's not really arguable since it didn't happen. Chancellors weren't even voted in during the Weimar Republic, with all of them being appointed. The 3 chancellors before Hitler were appointed by Hindenburg as well. If by "elected" you mean in a presidential election, I doubt. The Nazi party only had about 20% of the vote when Hitler became chancellor, although it was the majority party.

He was appointed by Hindenburg. He was appointed so as to form a coalition government between the Nazis who were the largest party Reichstag, but did not have more than a 50% majority, the Catholic Moderates and German National People's Party. He would not have been elected to chancellor (because he couldn't) and not to presidency anytime soon after the results of the 1932 election.

I think the Illuminati put him in office to end Jewish Zionism.

So, what we can conclude is that Hitler is more representative of the people than Winston Churchill or David Cameron.

Wow, whoever said democracy was a good idea?