 By the following year, though, the Nazis had dispensed with elections and banned their archrival, the Communist Party of Germany.Hitler's success in these elections had thereby paved the way for his Enabling Act of 1933 ("Ermächtigungsgesetz"), thus starting the Third Reich in earnest.Krottelbach was until not at all very long ago still characterized by agriculture, but even in the 19th century, workers held a great share of the population, which later grew.