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Originally Posted by chrispedersen
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Originally Posted by lch
But what brought down the Weimar Republic was that the chancellor could abuse power too easily and subvert the system by emergency decrees, in times of war for example.
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That is *far* too simplistic an argument on what down the Weimar republic. |
I won't get into lengths about it on an internet forum, but it's, distilled into one sentence, what managed to end the Weimar republic being a republic with multiple parties and turning it into a dictatorship. As to the why and how, the reasons, and the "dagger-thrust" legend and so on, I expect that people educate themselves about that elsewhere, but not on an internet forum.