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@jrredho
#WeimarRepublic #DEhistory #ThirdReicha🧵
This is, in principle, correct, but the context is important:
1) In a (pluralistic) #ParliamentaryDemocracy, a #CoalitionGovernment is the norm, as they reflect society much better than #WinnerTakesAll/ #FirstPastThePost systems (e. g. US, UK.)
2.) At the beginning of the #GreatDepression, in 1930, the last such government collapsed on the vital question of unemployment-insurance reform:
@realSiegfried -
As many either never knew or don't remember anymore how #Hitler and his party, the #NSDAP, came to lead the federal government, I've just written a "prequel" to my thread on the Death of Democracy in the #WeimarRepublic, based on an official document:
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*#DEhistory The Rise of #Fascism in #Germany*
[My amended translation of the text by Germany’s Federal Agency for Political Education (#BPB) a 🧵 ]
👉 *#Hindenburg appoints #Hitler as Reich Chancellor
Editorial*
[How the first German Democracy was lost in the #WeimarRepublic]👈On January 30, 1933, Reich President #PaulVonHindenburg appointed the then leader (“#Führer”) of the #NSDAP, #AdolfHitler as Reich Chancellor...
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@jrredho
This is not quite correct:
As I've sumed up in my thread on the 1933 elections of the late #WeimarRepublic...https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110097936019841276
...the #NSDAP did not *yet* achieve a majority in the final (somewhat) free elections of February, 1933.
They did so ever after abolishing #Democracy in the November elections: the electorate could only vote for a "unity list: "Here is a chart of their election results:
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@missladyartemis @RickiTarr @Strandjunker
👉The Death of the #WeimarRepublic👈
(5/n)
...On February 23, the #Communists were able to hold their last major election campaign event in #Prussia with Wilhelm #Pieck as their top candidate. But 👉Pieck could not [even] finish his speech because the event was broken up by the #police.👈 On February 27, there was a #Reichstag fire [#Reichstagsbrand]. Regardless of whether the fire...