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This teaches me to completely read a post before clicking anything.
I still can not see where Hitler was elected.
Hindenburg, although 'duly elected', appointed Hitler and that does not mean Hitler was elected by association. There was intrigue getting Hitler appointed as Chancellor but there was never an election held with him as a candidate. Unless my definition of "elected" is skewered.
So Hitler becomes Chancellor and the NDSAP gains about 43% of the seats in the Reichstag. They proceed to make procedural changes within that will make it easier for Hitler to gain power such as the Enabling Acts and Law Concerning the Highest State Office. The vote of August 19, 1934 is still not a direct 'election'. It was a vote on procedure and not 'electing' Hitler although the outcome was that Hitler gained full power. He still was not elected.
I still stand by my original post. Hitler was not elected.
Ultimately, my point is that - if I understand parliamentary procedures correctly - AH's ascension to power was along the lines of, eg, Churchill's. Now, was Churchill not then "elected," or, as party leader effectively appointed? The NSDAP, was also the party in power, though by virtue of a coalition rather than a single party.
SO AH was not elected the way an American president is, but it seems to me there are a lot of similarities to the way a British PM attains office.
But maybe I/we am/are splitting hairs here. It might be a better question to ask if he came to power legally and under the existent system at the time rather than was he elected.