 Hitler's success in these elections paved the way for his Enabling Act of 1933 ("Ermächtigungsgesetz"), thus starting the Third Reich in earnest.The village stayed with Bavaria until the end of the Second World War, when it became part of the Federal Republic of Germany within the then newly founded state of Rhineland-Palatinate.In the course of administrative restructuring in this state in 1968, Relsberg became an "Ortsgemeinde" within the "Verbandsgemeinde" of Wolfstein and the Kusel district in 1972.