Quote Originally Posted by The Stranger View Post
kadagar isnt right. hitler wasnt elected, this doesnt mean that his appointment as chancellor was undemocratic. however what the office was, and which he was appointed to by the rules of the time, is not the same office which hitler made it to be, which he did by changing the rules of his time...
Well, that was the point of my previous post.

His appointoment as chancellor was legal on paper. Which is a weak argument considering the situation that Germany was in. But it's technically true.

...and that's where it ends, really - his decision to usurp Hindenburg's powers after his death (into a combined office of chancellor/president that he called "Fuhrer") was clearly illegal, as were most of the other things he did.