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@jrredho
#WeimarRepublic #DEhistory #ThirdReich

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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

@realSiegfried @jrredho

#DEhistory

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:

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/114868019006965247

#DEhistory

@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:

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/113909298230713562

@realSiegfried

@Npars01 @rbreich

#DEhistory

I think I should add that except for (pseudo-)#Republicans, this is NOT "#socialism" but 20th "#SocialDemocracy", or even 19th century IMPERIAL policy (Chancelor #Bismarck, health and accident insurances, 1883 +1884, anounced by his Majesty, Emperor William I. of #Germany in 1881)*.

Wake up to the 21st century, #GOP!
You are an anachronism, a travesty, and a caricature of feudal #England...and a me-too of really poor and undignified quality at that...

@missladyartemis @RickiTarr @Strandjunker

#DEhistory
(8/n)

...[👉Despite all this political terror by the #Nazis, the #NSDAP did not yet gain an absolute majority in the February elections.👈 ]

The February election, however, paved the way to #dictatorship on this basis. 👉The next election in November 1933 provided only for a #NSDAP unity list in conjunction with a referendum on leaving the #LeagueOfNations
[And thus, #Democracy was abolished.👈]

/END

Primary source:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstagswahl_März_1933

@missladyartemis @RickiTarr @Strandjunker

#DEhistory #Democracy
👉The Death of the #Republic👈

(7/n)

...destruction of its ability to act, the #KPD did not formally dissolve because the government did not expect any practical advantages from dissolving it.
For their election campaign, the #NSDAP and the Black-White-Red Fighting Front were promised campaign aid amounting to three million #Reichsmarks at a secret 👉meeting between #Hitler and industrialists👈 on 20 February 1933. […]

@missladyartemis @RickiTarr @Strandjunker
#DEhistory
(5/n)

...was started by a lone perpetrator or staged by the #NSDAP itself, they exploited the process politically by blaming the #Communists. Already 👉the day after the fire, the #communist press and for two weeks the press of the #SPD were also banned. The offices of the #KPD were closed and deputies and functionaries were taken into "protective custody".👈 On the same day, the #Reichstag Fire Ordinance [#Reichtagstagsbrandverordnung] was...

@missladyartemis @RickiTarr @Strandjunker

#DEhistory #Elections1933

👉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...

@peter

#History #USpol #DEHistory

#Compromised
#Gleichschaltung ("#Alignment" of society)
#ThirdReich