As unemployment mounted through 1930, going above the three-million mark in September, more and more Germans, particularly among the young, sucked in this message of hate. At Reichstag elections called that month, nearly six and a half million voted for the National Socialists, carrying them in one bound from an insignificant fringe group less than a quarter the size of the Communist Party to the second-largest national party with 107 seats. One of the seats was allotted to Heinrich Himmler.
