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Reichstagswahl (National Election) Campaign Offering Badge: In the Reichstag (German parliament) elections of November 1932, the Nazis lose almost two million votes from the previous elections of July. They win only 33 percent of the vote. It seems clear that the Nazis will not gain a majority in democratic elections, and Adolf Hitler agrees to a coalition with conservatives. Then, after months of negotiations, the president of Germany, Paul von Hindenburg, will appoint Hitler chancellor of Germany in a government seemingly dominated by conservatives on January 30, 1933. The obverse features a raised portrait of a uniformed ideological figure set against a city skyline, with a prominent swastika at upper right and the election inscription in relief at top. The reverse displays a horizontal pinback fastener with original soldering, and is maker stamped: R. WACHTLER & LANGE, MITTWEIDA SA., ENTW. FRED LOSCH 35 x 44 mm, tombac

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