With your art collective(团体；集体) Centre for Political Beauty(德国政治艺术团体) you famously built a replica(复制品；仿制品) of the Holocaust memorial on a property next to the home of an AfD(德国选择党) politician. Now you’ve written a history book about the Nazis’ rise to power. Don’t we already know everything there is to know about the 1932 elections, the Reichstag fire(1933年国会纵火案) and the Enabling Act of 1933(1933年《授权法》)?
您和您的艺术团体“政治美中心”曾因在一位德国选择党（AfD）政客家旁边的地块上复制了一座大屠杀纪念碑而闻名。现在您又写了一本关于纳粹如何上台的历史书。关于1932年的选举、国会纵火案和1933年的《授权法》，我们不是已经无所不知了吗？
About three years ago I became interested in how Hitler’s National Socialist German Workers’ party (NSDAP) rose to prominence(显赫；突出地位) when Germany was still a democracy, because I hoped it could tell us something about the success of rightwing extremist movements today. From looking at historical sources, I realised that the Reichstag elections of 14 September 1930 were in many ways more important than what happened in 1932 and 1933. And I expected it to be an open-and-shut case(一目了然的案子). But the more I looked into it, the more I realised that most of the theories we have to explain the rise of the Nazis don’t make sense – the data tells a completely different, far darker story.(但我越深入研究，就越发现我们用来解释纳粹崛起的多数理论都站不住脚——数据讲述的是一个截然不同、也黑暗得多的故事。)
大约三年前，我开始对希特勒的“民族社会主义德国工人党”（纳粹党）在德国仍是民主国家时如何崛起产生兴趣，因为我希望这能帮助我们理解当今右翼极端运动为何能取得成功。通过查阅历史资料，我意识到1930年9月14日的国会选举在许多方面比1932年和1933年发生的事更为重要。我本以为这会是一桩一目了然的案子。但我越深入研究，就越发现我们用来解释纳粹崛起的多数理论都站不住脚——数据讲述的是一个截然不同、也黑暗得多的故事。
Why were the 1930 elections so important?
为什么1930年的选举如此重要？