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>>95335480>looking at how the NSDAP rose to powerI did look, when I was getting my Abitur here in Germany (that's where I live). Nothing is a "by the book democracy". There is no Democracy measuring stick, set in stone for both the future and the past. Weimar Republic was a democracy. A different one from that of today and probably of tomorrow. people will probably laugh at how US called itself a democracy in a 100 years (actually scratch that, they already lough). Anyway it was a democracy nonetheless.
>Hitler was appointed Chancellor by the German president himself.oh lol, so you say every German Chancellor comes to occupy this post in a non-democratic way? That is what happens when a party becomes a ruling party in Germany - it's leader is appointed to be Chancellor by the president. and the president doesn't have the power to actually deny him this. He can postpone it. Just like for example an US governor has a power to postpone an execution, but he has no power to overrule the court's decision.
You are missing the point I made. Hitler was elected democratically, i.e. he was legitimately elected in accordance with the laws of that day and place. Of course he abused the shit out of it both pre and post election. That's the point. But enough people wanted him to be their leader (that's what "Führer" means, "zu führen" means "to lead"). If the people didn't wanted him so badly - he couldn't have had abused it. The problem of the Weimar Republic wasn't that it was not democratic enough (shit, it was probably the most liberal, democratic state of all time, fucking philosophers devised it into existence) - the problem was the population, the land itself wasn't democratic. people didn't want to be governed by a democratic government - they wanted a strong leader, so they used their democratic rights to make it happen.
