History Lesson: The 53-Day Collapse: How Hitler and the Nazi Party Systematically Dismantled German Democracy (Part 1)

By analyzing the rapid dismantling of German democracy in early 1933, we can see how a functioning, if troubled, democratic system was methodically destroyed through a combination of legal manipulation, political violence, and the exploitation of existing institutional weaknesses. This shit happened fast - in just 53 days, the Nazi Party managed to transform Germany from a democracy into a dictatorship, and they did it mostly through "legal" means.

So many parallels are currently being made about Orange McShitsHisPants and Adolf Hitler, so it is perhaps time to educate on how exactly Germany went from a Republic to a Dictatorship in 53 days.

The Precarious State of the Weimar Republic

The Weimar Republic was already in deep fucking trouble before Hitler became Chancellor. According to historian Richard J. Evans in "The Coming of the Third Reich" (2003…