Nazi Propaganda Booklet for the Forced Elections of 1933 in Germany, in Which the Nazi Party Seized Power - 1933 Ein Kampf um Deutschland - ”The Struggle for Germany” - a propaganda booklet in support of the Nazi Party ahead of the German Reichstag elections of November 1933, in which Hitler became the sole ruler. Published by Geamtverband deutscher antikommunistischer - ”General Association of German Anti-Communist Associations” - a propaganda organization established with the support of the Nazi apparatus. Berlin, 1933. (It is rare to find a color-printed cover from this year). ”The following pages are intended to open your eyes to what Germany would have looked like had Communism triumphed. Never forget that you, your family, and the entire nation would have been utterly lost if, at the last moment, the entire nation, determined to resist and rebuild, had not united behind the Führer.” A rare publication making calculated use of disturbing and fear-inducing visual imagery, directed primarily against the KPD - the Communist Party of Germany, which posed an electoral threat to the Nazi Party ahead of the 1933 elections. The booklet includes anti-Communist images documenting events such as the destruction of socialist literature and the May Day riots of 1929 in Berlin, as well as the burning of the Reichstag in Berlin in February 1933; caricatures by the artist George Grosz depicting Jesus wearing a gas mask (intended to illustrate Communist ”atheism and heresy”); covers of radical sexual-reform periodicals associated with socialist militants and Magnus Hirschfeld; Communists attacking a policeman; and more. The accompanying text, printed in traditional Gothic type, was intended to shock Germany's conservative and bourgeois public by presenting ”cultural and sexual Bolshevism” as a tangible threat to the destruction of the family, religion, morality, and private property, while emphatically asserting that had it not been for Hitler's intervention and the people's rallying behind him at the last moment, all of Germany would have plunged into an abyss of Red Terror, abject poverty, and anarchy. The Communist Party is presented as an enemy of Germany, according to which ”the German child must forget his homeland and love only the Soviet Union.” In November of that year, ”elections” were held in the form of a compulsory 'plebiscite' for the Reichstag, and 661 deputies from the Nazi Party were elected. This was the final time, before the Nazi Party's definitive seizure of power, that the regime needed the German people to reinforce its authority. The booklet before us was published ahead of these compulsory 'elections', and it clearly reveals the Party's brutal method of seizing control and the mandatory instruction on how to vote. As a conclusion to the incitement appearing throughout the booklet, it states: ”On November 12, every voter receives two ballots, one for the plebiscite on the policy of the Reich government, on green paper, and one for the Reichstag elections containing the list of Nazi Party representatives. In both cases, the voter must mark the ballot 'Yes'.” The booklet, addressed to the German people after nearly a year of brutal takeover of all organs of government, is written in the spirit of the Party's values and presents Adolf Hitler as the savior who alone possesses the power to restore Germany to its greatness. The booklet's cover features a dramatic photomontage juxtaposing the profile of Adolf Hitler and a column of disciplined SA marchers with chaos represented by a Communist rally, a hammer and sickle on a red flag, and an illustration of a rifle pointing upward. In February 1933, the process of transforming the German regime into a dictatorship began. Throughout that year, measures were taken to strengthen the Nazi regime. In early March, shortly after the Reichstag fire, the last ”elections” under Hitler's rule were held. Despite the campaign of propaganda and intimidation, the Nazi Party failed to secure a majority - it received 44% of the vote. Hitler regarded this as a failure and accelerated the pace of his takeover of the state. The powers transferred to the Nazi Party expanded, and the streets were controlled by the thugs of the SS and SA. The Nazis enacted laws that transferred all powers of the state into their hands. Between June and July, all parties were removed from the Reichstag through violence, threats, and legislation. On July 14, the ”Law Establishing the Nazi Party as the Sole Political Party” was enacted, stipulating that only the Nazi Party was permitted and that every other political party was prohibited and illegal. Thus, the transformation of the Weimar Republic into a one-party regime granting unlimited authority to the ruling party was completed. 31 pages. 23 cm. Very good condition.