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flashman13

(2,563 posts) Sat Oct 4, 2025, 11:36 PM Oct 2025

There is one thing to remember about the Weimar Republic. It was just 12 years old in 1930.

They had no democratic traditions. We are just short of 250 years of democracy. We have defended our democracy many times. We are not the Germans of 1930.