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The establishment of the first parliamentary republic in the midst of military defeat and social revolution at the end of the First World War was in many ways a remarkable triumph for German democrats. And yet, after just fourteen years, the Weimar Republic was replaced by National Socialist dictatorship. Ever since, historians have vigorously debated why German democratization failed in the 1920s.
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Berger, S. (2000). The Attempt at Democratization under Weimar. In: Garrard, J., Tolz, V., White, R. (eds) European Democratization since 1800. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333983317_6
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