Was democracy in Germany destroyed with the rise of Hitler?
You need to do some searching because democracy was not destroyed, however, the constitution which the Weimar approved on 31 July 1919 was essentially a modified version of the constitution established by Bismarck for his new Reich nearly half a century before. This had serious flaws in it which could, and had, been misused by the Reich’s first President, Friedrich Ebert on no less than 136 occasions in the early 1920s. For instance, Ebert, under article 48 used this to depose two legitimate elected governments in Saxony and Thuringia. These emergency powers were terribly misused and were only ever meant to be used in extreme cases of civil unrest. So what you need to do is search for ‘The Reich Fire Decree’ and The Reich Enabling Act’. These weaknesses in the constitution were still there when Hitler became Chancellor in 1933, however it was these laws that he used to gain supreme power in Germany once passed. Some historians will tell you that the whole process Hitler used bordered o
