I guess history is difficult when you only learn it through random-walk in Wikipedia. The Nazis were not in government in the 20s when this feeble attempt occurred. In fact, they were a relatively unknown regional party at this point. After imprisonment for the Beer-Hall Putsch, during which he wrote Mein Kampf, Hitler emerged better-known and prepared to plan. Over the following years they worked to become a legitimate party, entered government, and did not actually need to engage in direct violence to attain the absolute control that was desired.

> I guess history is difficult when you only learn it through random-walk in Wikipedia.

Please cut the smug attitude. I’m trying my best not to engage with this kind of low-brow personal attack.

> Over the following years they worked to become a legitimate party, entered government, and did not actually need to engage in direct violence to attain the absolute control that was desired.

This is just flat wrong. You’re ignoring the violent intimidations of the SA during the entire decade from 1920-1930.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmabteilung

> Throughout the 1920s and into the 1930s, members of the SA were often involved in street fights, called Zusammenstöße (collisions), with members of the Communist Party (KPD).

This. This is the problem. You refuse to acknowledge a simple fact. Discussion is thus impossible.