The day after the mid-term results

How the illiberals were defeated, until the next time * It is November 1932 and there has been a general election in Germany. Christopher Isherwood was to write: “On November 7th the election results were out. The Nazis had lost two million votes. The communists had gained eleven seats. They had a majority of over 100,000 in Berlin. “‘You see,’ I told Frl. Schroeder, ‘it’s all your doing.’ We had persuaded her to go down to the beer-shop at the corner and vote, for the first time in her life. And now she was as delighted as if she’d backed a winner […]” ~ Mr Norris Changes Trains, 1935 There was a general sense of relief at this fall in Nazi support, but we know now it was temporary. Isherwood himself was to leave Berlin the the following March: “‘I’m sure I don’t know what makes you want to leave Berlin all of a sudden, like this,’ Frl. Thurau told Christopher sadly, with perfect sincerity. “She, who had voted Communist—because of Christopher’s urging—in the November 1932 elections,…

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