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Kentonio

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8. Sorry, I don't buy into the comparison.

Reply to First Speaker (Original post)

Mon Jan 8, 2018, 05:35 AM

Jan 2018

Weimar was an extremely unique set of circumstances that don't really stand up to a modern comparison. German people at the time just didn't have the background in democracy that made an autocratic leader unthinkable. To them there was much less of a cultural shock to the idea of installing an autocratic leader when they had spent most of their lives living under various versions of the same.

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