• rainynight65@feddit.de
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    4 days ago

    It didn’t just take “Hitler’s death” for Germans to be able to vote again. It wasn’t a case of “oh look, he’s dead, now we can go back to democracy”. It took over a decade of political terror and violence, a devastating world war, and one of the most organised campaigns of mass murder and genocide in history.

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      3 days ago

      And this also ignores that for the unluckier half of Germany, the didn’t really get to vote again until 1990.