 In the 1928 Reichstag elections, none of the local votes went to Adolf Hitler’s party, but by the 1930 Reichstag elections, this had grown to 31%.By the time of the 1933 Reichstag elections, after Hitler had already seized power, local support for the Nazis had swollen to 98.3%.Hitler’s success in these elections paved the way for his Enabling Act of 1933 ("Ermächtigungsgesetz"), thus starting the Third Reich in earnest.