Scariest Election Photo Of All Time — Yes, that is an election poster for Adolph Hitler from the race for the German presidency held on March 13, 1932. Maybe the most troubling thing about the election was that the future fuhrer would lose fairly handedly to World War I hero Paul von Hindenburg getting 11.3 million votes to Hindenburg’s 18.6 million. Since Hindenburg’s tally, however, was just 49 percent of the total, a runoff was required. It was held on April 10 and Hindenburg again easily won 59 percent to 41 percent.
Still, Hitler’s second-place finish showed him to be a political force that in the turmoil roiling that nation led him to be picked as chancellor the next January. The rest is, unfortunate, history.