[immibis]

> I don’t see how a government elected by the people can be considered a dictatorship.

The people elected Adolf Hitler, who promptly changed the law to prevent himself being unelected.

[Teocali]

No. That’s factually false.

Hitler was named chancellor of the weimar republic by the government. Not elected as such.

And it was part of a plot from the weimar government to be able to continue to work without casting new elections, as asked by the laws.

[cryptonector]

He was a member of their parliament.

[Teocali]

Didn’t find any source on that. He ran for presidential mandate in 1932 and lost against Hindeburg. But never won an election for the Reichstag.

But I agree that, if it he had run, he would have win, as the NSDAP was the leading party in Reichstag at the time.

[cryptonector]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_(Nazi_Germany)

says

> Finally, there were 855 deputies; Adolf Hitler was No. 433, elected to the Reichstag constituency 24 Upper Bavaria – Swabia.