@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
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:
*#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...
@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:
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
👉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...
Kevin Karhan 
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴