 By the time of the 1933 Reichstag elections, after Hitler had already seized power, local support for the Nazis had swollen to 86.5%.Hitler’s success in these elections paved the way for his Enabling Act of 1933 ("Ermächtigungsgesetz"), thus starting the Third Reich in earnest.In the course of the 1968 administrative restructuring in Rhineland-Palatinate, the "Ortsgemeinde" of Oberalben with its two "Ortsteile" of Oberalben and Mayweilerhof passed in 1972 to the then newly founded "Verbandsgemeinde" of Kusel in the Kusel district.