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The Weimar Constitution: A Blueprint for Disaster
Episode 60 examines the Weimar Constitution of 1919, the ambitious legal framework that was meant to birth German democracy but instead paved the way for Hitler's dictatorship. Lucas and Luna explore the document's progressive social rights, its fatal Article 48 emergency powers, and the proportional representation system that fragmented the Reichstag into warring parties. They discuss the role of constitutional lawyer Hugo Preuß, the compromises forced by the Treaty of Versailles, and how the constitution's own safeguards — like federalism and the president's veto — were…
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