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(03-05-2017, 08:22 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: LOL, no.  The NSDAP was not going to partner with anyone unwilling to subjugate themselves to their party agenda.  They were incapable of forming a coalition government, largely because their expressed intent was to destroy the system from the inside.  Given that, and their extreme views, no other party was willing to cooperate with them despite their plurality.

Your argument has now entered the inane.  Of course they formed a coalition government after Hitler was backdoored into the Chancellorship, they had no choice.  Additionally, it was part of the naive strategy of von Papen that a coalition would allow him to control and reign in Hitler's, and the NSDAP's, more extreme views.  In short, they thought they could box Hitler in, they couldn't have been more wrong.

The NSDAP was not the only party hoping to "destroy the system from the inside."

You say the Nazis were incapable of forming a coalition government.

When I point out that they DID form a coalition, this reference to fact is suddenly "inane," because "they had no choice."

I'm assuming "they" refers to the DNVP and the Catholic Zentrum.  Of course they had a choice. That is why there was so much debate within the parties.  The Zentrum's decision was settled in part by German Bishops' consultations with the Vatican.  At the end of the day, those opposed were unable to persuade their leaders to refuse the coalition.  To put this in your terms, the opposition could not "articulate their words sufficient to win over people," and so had only themselves to blame. 

Had the DNVP and the Zentrum refused the coalition then Hitler would have been unable to govern. The fact that the parties did have a choice is clear from the concessions wrung from Hitler, such as the Reichskonkordat with the Vatican, signed in July of '33.