sentences:  Hitler’s success in these elections paved the way for his Enabling Act of 1933 ("Ermächtigungsgesetz"), thus starting the Third Reich in earnest.Repeated efforts to unite the two parts of the municipality were long doomed to failure.Particularly hard on the village were the times when the Saar was split away from Germany (1920-1935 and 1945-1955) after each of the world wars.