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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Ask/Tell > Tell me about democracy in Germany and Japan after WWII
 
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futurebot 2000
Jan 29, 2010
 Someone already mentioned the Weimar republic. Democracy wasn't really a foreign concept to most Germans, even if it never managed to gain much traction against the prevailing powers before the end of WW1. Saying that the birthplace of Immanuel Kant and Karl Marx does not have a democratic tradition is a bit of a stretch. From german acadameic circles, all the way into the middle class, democracy was seen more like one of the many possible implementations of the 'Rechsstaat' or Rule of Law.

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