German election and referendum, 1938

The election of the Greater German Reichstag on April 10, 1938 took place at the same time with the subsequent referendum on the reunification of Austria with the German Reich. Approved was only a Nazi- dominated unit list, as candidates on some designated as non-party guests as in the two previous elections. It was therefore a sham election, because the outcome had already been decided from the outset: both the election and the voting services, like the previous elections, a clear approval. With the Sudeten Germans by-election on 4 December 1938, the inhabitants of the Sudetenland voted for their members of parliament, after the area had been connected as a result of the Munich Agreement of 29 September.

Results

The unit list of the Nazi Party officially reached 99.1 % of the vote, 0.9% were invalid. It is important to note that even blank ballots counted as votes for the NSDAP, which thus received all the 814 seats in the Reichstag. Eleven of the seats were occupied by guests.

In the by-election 41 deputies from the Sudetenland given a seat, so that the number of MEPs increased to 855, including now ten guests.

Further development

In April 1939, were also determined two MPs from the Memel, making it ultimately gave 857 parliamentarians.

On January 25, 1943 Adolf Hitler extended the term of the Reichstag by a law to January 30, 1947. Was thus avoided having to hold elections during the war. In May 1945 ended in Europe of World War II and it came in Germany to make any further general election more.

Participants set up on 23 May 1949 the Federal Republic of Germany, the citizens were for the first time called on 14 August for the parliamentary elections, which again met the election principles. In the German Democratic Republic, the first parliamentary elections took place on 15 October in 1950, this election was, however, be regarded as not democratic.