After the failure of the Munich Putsch in 1923 the NSDAP remained a party on the fringe of Weimar politics. Hitler was released from prison in 1924, but struggled to attract electoral support. In May 1924, the NSDAP got 6.5% of the vote but by December this had halved to 3% and the party only had 14 seats in the Reichstag. By the May 1928 elections this had further reduced to 12 seats (out of a total of 491).
Hitler’s autobiographical manifesto Mein Kampf sold a total of 9,473 copies in its first year and sales remained poor thereafter. At the end of 1928 there was little evidence to support the view that Hitler and the NSDAP would ever achieve widespread electoral success and take power.
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