In order to enable people lying ill in hospital to record their votes on Sunday in the presidential election, election officers visited all the hospitals and collected their ballot papers from the patients in sealed envelopes.
Eight of the votes recorded in the Jewish Community Hospital in Berlin, where there are always a number of non-Jewish patients, were given to Hitler, it is now revealed. 238 votes were cast for Hindenburg, and 22 votes for the Communist candidate, Thaelmann.
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