After great success in the July 1932 Reichstag election, Nazi vote totals sank four months later during the 6 November election. The party’s momentum seemed at an end and there was considerable depression among the Nazis.
The day after the election Goebbels wrote an article titled “The Chancellor without a People.” He minimized Nazi losses while claiming (with some justice) that the election had been a disaster for Reich Chancellor von Papen. With no hope of a parliamentary majority, he dissolved the Reichstag before it was able to do anything.
