... Colonel von Epp ran for the Reichstag in 1928. He felt entitled to the voters' support

[struggle4progress]

because he assured them he had none of the attributes of a statesman: "I have decided to become a parliamentarian," he said in an interesting campaign speech. "You will doubt that I have the requisite qualities for that position. I do not have those qualities; I have never have them, for nothing depends on those qualities." After he was elected, von Epp looked around at the assembled legislators and noted in his diary: "An attempt of the slime to govern" ...

Robert Waite
Vanguard of Nazism: The Free Corps Movement in Postwar Germany
paperback edition, Norton: 1968 p 267

[DetlefK]

1. The National-Socialists hated the whole concept of parliamentarian democracy.

(As did the german Communists.)

The Nazis derided parliament as a useless institution with lots of talk and no action.

[baldguy]

2. History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.