sentences:  In the 1930 Reichstag elections, 22.4% of the local votes went to Adolf Hitler’s party.By the time of the 1933 Reichstag elections, after Hitler had already seized power, local support for the Nazis had swollen to 90%.Hitler’s success in these elections paved the way for his Enabling Act of 1933 ("Ermächtigungsgesetz"), thus starting the Third Reich in earnest.