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The company director from Goring, in West Sussex, said: "I've lost my freedom, confidence, business, very nearly my family home, and almost my will to live."

A month later, ��ö�����Բ� convened another group of leaders from Germany's capitalist class for an election fundraiser of sorts in his official residence.

The aid that Goebbels and other Nazi leaders needed soon arrived, along with 20 or so bankers and industrialists who arrived in chauffeured cars at the official residence of Reichstag president Hermann ��ö�����Բ� on the night of Feb. 20.

��ö�����Բ� added that the election "will surely be the last one for the next 10 years, probably even for the next 100 years," a situation that would ease the "financial sacrifices" asked of them.

Even if ��ö�����Բ� was technically incorrect — the Nazis continued to stage elections, for a while — effective political opposition ceased to exist, and by July of 1933, all non-Nazi parties were banned.