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Democracies can fail. Current events have raised the question of how stable or fragile democratic structures are, and whether democracy is much more vulnerable than we think. The Weimar Republic, the first democracy in Germany, ended with the rise to power of the Nazis in 1933. What happened back then? What parallels are there to the situation today, and what can we learn from the past?
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Report: Ulrike Bornhak
Host: Melissa Aparicio
Edit: Frederick Willmann

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00:00 Introduction
00:30 Title: How Democracy Can Fail
01:20 What Was the Weimar Repulic?
02:36 Economic Uncertainty
03:32 Dance on the Edge of a Volcano
07:57 Lack of Trust in Democracy
09:12 Populist Promises
10:41 The End of the Weimar Republic