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Germany in the years 1918/1919–1933
The claim that "Trump is turning America into Nazi Germany" is an alarm bell, not a neutral historical diagnosis: journalists, historians and public figures have drawn parallels between some Trump-era...
Comparisons between Donald Trump’s actions and Adolf Hitler’s rise before World War II surface repeatedly in recent commentary and scholarship, with analysts pointing to overlapping tactics—nationalis...
Historians and legal scholars disagree about whether Adolf Hitler “enforced gun control” in a simple, monolithic way: the Weimar Republic had strict firearms rules beginning in 1928 that enabled regis...
The claim that the Rothschilds “caused the collapse of the German economy in 1933” is : economic collapse and the Weimar Republic’s crisis resulted from a complex mix of post‑World War I reparations, ...
Adolf Hitler, as the leader of Nazi Germany, committed profound wrongs by orchestrating the Holocaust, which systematically murdered six million Jews and millions of others, and by initiating World Wa...
The claim that “Trump is another Hitler” cannot be stated as a simple equivalence; available analyses identify in rhetoric, institutional tactics, and lawfare that warrant vigilance and democratic res...
The National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP) used socialist language and some early anti‑capitalist points to broaden appeal, but its core ideology and governance diverged sharply from sociali...
Before 1871 German law criminalized abortion and that prohibition was consolidated into Paragraph 218 of the Reich Criminal Code in 1871, punishable by prison; the Weimar era saw modest liberalisation...
Weimar Germany enacted strict, nationwide firearm controls after World War I: the 1919 Versailles-era rules and the 1928 Reich law created mandatory permits, registration and strict licensing criteria...
Prostitution in the Weimar Republic (1919–1933) sat in a legal grey zone: Germany moved from a 19th‑century system of regulationism—where prostitution was officially illegal yet tolerated under strict...
Adolf Hitler’s ascent to power was the product of a confluence of legal political maneuvering, mass popular support amid crisis, and deliberate extra-parliamentary pressure that converted democratic o...
Historians reading the collapse of Weimar Germany identify a set of early warning signs that recur in democratic backsliding: the politicization and manipulation of emergencies, erosion of democratic ...
The Nuremberg Laws institutionalized the racial exclusion of Jews and set in motion a systematic campaign that deprived Jewish entrepreneurs of rights, customers, and legal protections, which in turn ...
Hitler’s Nazi Party rose to power through a mix of electoral gains, economic crisis, political bargaining, and deliberate use of legal and extralegal means between 1918 and 1933. identified across con...
The Nazi Party's ascent to power in Germany during the early 1930s resulted from a mix of electoral gains, elite backroom deals, exploitation of economic crisis and public grievances, and rapid legal ...
and differ in several concrete legal and institutional ways that historians and commentators point to when warning against facile comparisons: Weimar’s written emergency powers and fragile party syste...
In the weeks after his appointment as chancellor on January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler and his allies moved swiftly to dismantle democratic constraints, exploit crises, and co‑opt institutions so that leg...
Comparing contemporary U.S. polarization to Weimar Germany misleads more than it illuminates: better American analogues are internal crises that share partisan realignment, institutional strain, and m...
The NSDAP explicitly used the language of “socialism” in its name and early 25-point platform, which contained anti-capitalist-sounding items (especially points 10–18), but those demands were a mix of...
Scholarly and popular sources indicate that sexual commerce involving minors did occur in Germany before 1933 — especially in urban centers during and after World War I — but the scale, organization i...