How #democracy transforms to #autocracy: lessons from the #NurembergTrials.
The transcripts from the Nuremberg Trials and the defendants' statements help us understand how the democratic Weimar Republic transformed into a totalitarian Third Reich.
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The transcripts from the Nuremberg Trials and the defendants' statements help us understand how the democratic Weimar Republic transformed into a totalitarian Third Reich.
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- Joachim von Ribbentropm, a Nazi Foreign Minister, during the #NurembergTrials
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- Joachim von Ribbentrop, a Nazi diplomat, during the #NurembergTrials
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And Every day, I might see 1 or 2 posts that suggest concrete ideas for what to do
And there is something very, very wrong with that ratio
maybe that ratio is just my timeline; that is possible