How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days

How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days

Timothy Ryback: “Ninety-two years ago this month, on Monday morning, January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed the 15th chancellor of the Weimar Republic. In one of the most astonishing political transformations in the history of democracy, Hitler set about destroying a constitutional republic

Historian reveals how Hitler 'dismantled' democracy in less than two months

After Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor in 1933, he promptly packed the government full of loyalists and used Weimar Germany's constitution to turn himself into an absolute dictator.In a Wednesday essay for the Atlantic, historian Timothy W. Ryback, who is the director of the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation in The Hague, described the process in which Hitler rapidly disintegrated Germany's constitutional rep…

The scheme of putinization, or in more common terms, of the destruction of democracy, is similar to that of conventional dictatorships and tyranny.