 By the time of the 1933 Reichstag elections, after Hitler had already seized power, local support for the Nazis had swollen to 88.0%.Hitler’s success in these elections paved the way for his Enabling Act of 1933 ("Ermächtigungsgesetz"), thus starting the Third Reich in earnest.In 1972, Langenbach passed as a self-administering "Ortsgemeinde" to the "Verbandsgemeinde" of Glan-Münchweiler.