@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 #NSDAP, #AdolfHitler as Reich Chancellor
Excited to present at @dh2025 today with my talk “What is Democracy? Scalable Reading Newspapers of the Weimar Republic.”
My project combines digital methods and close reading to analyze how democracy was discussed in historical newspapers from Weimar Germany - a scalable-reading workflow. Looking forward to the discussion and the other talks in session "SP-34".
4:00pm (GMT+1)
https://shorturl.at/4xZPv
**#DH2025 #DigitalHistory** **#DigitalHumanities** **#DH** **#WeimarRepublic**
@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:
Unknown #Novel by writer who charted #Hitler’s rise becomes German bestseller
#SebastianHaffner’s love story set in final days of #WeimarRepublic, published more than nine decades after it was written
#Literature #GermanLiterature #LiteratureInTranslation #Hitler #Fascism #History #GermanHistory #Book #Books #EnglishTranslation
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/24/sebastian-haffner-abschied-unknown-novel-published
@xankarn
#Trumpism is the #US mutation of #Fascism
(1/n)
"The U.S. under MAGA has gone fascist."
I agree, which is why I wrote in my thread, *The Clear Shape of Things To Come During #Trump's 2nd Term In Office* in Nov. 2024,
"In short, this is a mostly legal coup..., the outcome can roughly be compared to the 1st #Reichstag election of 1933 in the #WeimarRepublic, but (rather skillfully in contrast, I must, alas, admit)...without the mass bullying and violence.."
Timely #review article:
Frank Biess, Weimar in the World: Transnational and Global Perspectives on Germany’s First Democracy, in: The Journal of Modern History 97 (2025) 2, https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/735412
Concluding that the “contradictory crosscurrents of Weimar’s
global situatedness sound rather familiar in the context of our own predicament at
the beginning of the twenty-first century.”
(1/2)
It might look like political assassinations. That would take the US down an even darker path, as during the #WeimarRepublic.
But is it truly as it seems?
"“Law enforcement found a hit list in the #Minnesota suspect’s car that contained nearly 70 names, a law enforcement official briefed on the matter told CNN.
The names included abortion providers, pro-abortion rights advocates, and lawmakers in...
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/minnesota-shootings-manhunt-06-14-25?cid=ios_app
They are there because groups like #labourtogether and the heroically misnamed #labourtowin saw them as useful auxiliaries against their #corbynista opponents - just as the latter earlier on had made use of some pretty unpleasant groupuscules themselves. History is littered with cases where supposed auxiliaries get out of hand - the #freikorps in the early #weimarrepublic being the classic example!
@mistergeezy
Watch this handy video for where the US is willingly headed 
Its mind boggling far how this has gone
#Harvard
#Fascist #Alignment of #Education
(1/2)
#Trump coming for #Harvard makes utter sense:
1) It is almost exactly how the #Nazis took over all branches of the #WeimarRepublic in the 1930's
2) All revolutionaries come for the university students, because they usually constitute the leaders for future opposition (e. g. #Mao, #Stalin,...)
Controlling #Education is indispensable:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/114191854138931406
3) If you are among dangerous people that you need to...
@RawStory Someone more famous than I said version of this once "how many legions does the church ( insert #SCOTUS ) have?
If you haven't figured it out where this showdown is going ignoring or bypassing the judicial branch you're not paying attention.
Was a nice democracy this #WeimarRepublic 2.0 
@abc7.bsky.social
Our King Krasnov
my bad Trump to invoke wartime #Alien Enemies Act to carry out mass deportations
(Ed: Hello 
#Democrats this ur cue to do something like @sanders.senate.gov & Tim Walz are. Playing dead is a losing #WeimarRepublic strategy
)
So, a co-worker told me about this article today... Wow! What day are we on now?
How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days
He used the constitution to shatter the constitution.
By Timothy W. Ryback
"Ninety-two years ago this month, on Monday morning, January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed the 15th chancellor of the #WeimarRepublic. In one of the most astonishing political transformations in the history of democracy, Hitler set about destroying a constitutional republic through constitutional means. What follows is a step-by-step account of how Hitler systematically disabled and then dismantled his country’s democratic structures and processes in less than two months’ time—specifically, one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours, and 40 minutes. The minutes, as we will see, mattered.
"Hans Frank served as Hitler’s private attorney and chief legal strategist in the early years of the Nazi movement. While later awaiting execution at Nuremberg for his complicity in Nazi atrocities, Frank commented on his client’s uncanny capacity for sensing 'the potential weakness inherent in every formal form of law' and then ruthlessly exploiting that weakness. Following his failed Beer Hall Putsch of November 1923, Hitler had renounced trying to overthrow the Weimar Republic by violent means but not his commitment to destroying the country’s #democratic system, a determination he reiterated in a Legalitätseid—'legality oath'—before the Constitutional Court in September 1930. Invoking Article 1 of the Weimar constitution, which stated that the government was an expression of the will of the people, Hitler informed the court that once he had achieved power through legal means, he intended to mold the government as he saw fit. It was an astonishingly brazen statement.
"'So, through constitutional means?' the presiding judge asked.
"'Jawohl!' Hitler replied."
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/ylnZR
#Fascism #ResistFascism #Authoritarianism #USPol #History #HistoryRepeats #Twitler
@kylekulinskishow.bsky.social
"BOMBSHELL 
Of #Ukraine! | The Kyle Kulinski Show"
https://youtu.be/rx610qeB7V0?feature=shared
(ed :
#seculartalk #ukrainewar #russia #trump #gangster oligarchy #weimarrepublic )
@politico.eu
Trump signs order to claim power over independent federal agencies
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/18/trump-order-power-independent-agencies-00204798
(Ed : 'We do not need no stinking oversight'
Our slide 
into techbro oligarchy full on fascism is gathering speed & still no effective opposition) #speedrun #WeimarRepublic
