Alberto Monteiro wrote:
>
> David Hobby wrote:
> >
> > Nice find! Germany did have long democratic traditions to
> > work with, though. It had just momentarily forgotten them. : )
> > Not that that could happen any place else.
> >
> Uh? Long democratic traditions??? Germany was a democracy
> from some time after WW1 to 1933+ [Hitler was elected democratically,
> and remained a democratic ruler until he could blame the Commies for
> putting fire to the Reischstag [sp? the Congress.de] - so a little
> over 10 years. Before that, it was an Absolute Monarchy under the
> Kaisers since 1870 or so, before that it was either under the Absolute
> Monarchy of the Austrian Habsburgs or local princes since 1000 or so,
> before that it was an Absolute Monarchy under the heirs of Charlemagne,
> etc.
>
> Germany had *no* democratic traditions at all
None? Not even whatever filtered in from Switzerland?
And what of the failed revolution of 1848?
http://www.zum.de/whkmla/region/germany/ger1848.html
You win, but it was STILL much better than Iraq is
now.
---David
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