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…showed last 75 words of 2531 total…won 81 seats, while the Nazis obtained 288. The Nazis still did not have a majority in the Reichstag, but with the aid of their Nationalist allies, the expulsion of the Communists, and the intimidation of the moderates, Hitler forced through the Reichstag on March 23 the crucial Enabling Act, which gave him emergency dictatorial powers for a period of four years. Thus he accomplished the Nazi revolution and put an end to Germany's liberal attempt at reconstruction.