[dragonwriter]

> No actually, despite all their massive propaganda drives, the Nazis never won through elections.

a Nazi-DNVP coalition did, in fact, secure a majority in the snap elections called immediately after the one in which the Hitler-led Nazi-DNVP minority coalition came to power, and it wasn't until after they did the Hitler established totalitarian control.

(Of course, winning the largest share of seats, and forming a minority coalition because no group of other parties can form a majority coalition and you are able to secure the support of the elected head of state is also winning through elections, even if it isn't a commanding mandate. Systems of choosing a government by elections that can have ambiguous results usually have a set of methods of resolving them, and securing the position in the election from which to emergy victorious from the ambiguous-results-resolution system is still winning through elections.)