 By the time of the 1933 Reichstag elections, after Hitler had already seized power, local support for the Nazis had swollen to 87.6%.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 administrative restructuring in Rhineland-Palatinate in 1968, Oberweiler-Tiefenbach became an "Ortsgemeinde" within the "Verbandsgemeinde" of Wolfstein in 1972.