sentences:  By the time of the 1933 Reichstag elections, after Hitler had already seized power, local support for the Nazis had swollen to 97.1%.Hitler’s success in these elections paved the way for his Enabling Act of 1933 ("Ermächtigungsgesetz"), thus starting the Third Reich in earnest.Once the state of Rhineland-Palatinate had been founded after the Second World War and the Palatinate had been split away from Bavaria, the broader territorial arrangements did not change at first.