In 1939, the legal expert, Ernst Rudolf Huber, declared: ‘Asking people to vote is intended to strengthen the Führer’s position vis-à-vis the outside world and to be a clear demonstration of national unity. However, it is the Führer who continues to incorporate the true will of the nation.’ Hitler was not, therefore, bound by the results of the votes.

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The [German Fascists] kept speaking of ‘true democracy’, ‘improved democracy’ (Goebbels), ‘better’ and ‘simpler democracy’ (Hitler), or of ‘genuine democracy’. During the 1934 plebiscite, the Interior Minister, Wilhelm Frick, asked: ‘Where in the world is there a country that is ruled so democratically as Germany?’ Hitler liked boasting, above all in the presence of foreigners, of the ‘40 million Germans’, who stood ‘united behind him’; he was not prepared ‘to take any action without having reassured himself of the people’s trust’.

In August 1934 he told foreign correspondents: ‘Every year I take the opportunity to submit my authority to the approval of the German people. […] We barbaric Germans are better democrats than other nations.’ The official justification for the ‘Plebiscite Law’ of 14 July 1933, which was designed to facilitate the ‘consultation of the people’, stated that this was simply a procedure based ‘on old Teutonic legal forms’.

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