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The Weimar Constitution: Germany's First Democracy
In the chaotic months after World War One, Germany's first democracy was born in a small Thuringian town. The Weimar Constitution was revolutionary — universal suffrage, proportional representation, a bill of rights — but it also contained a fatal loophole: Article 48, which would eventually bring Hitler to power. This episode traces the creation of the Weimarer Verfassung by the Nationalversammlung, the role of legal scholar Hugo Preuss, and the political compromises that shaped it. We explore the strengths — like the Grundrechte and the Reichstag's power — and the structural…
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