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How did the Weimar Republic end?
Hindenburg's circle believed Hitler could be hired and managed. Germany's first democracy died largely by legal means, with most institutions intact until the end.
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The Weimar Republic The Weimar Republic (1918-1933) was Germany's first democracy, born of defeat and revolution, battered by the Versailles settlement, putsches from left and right, and the 1923 hyperinflation, yet home to a dazzling cultural flowering. The Depression broke it; Hitler's appointment as chancellor in January 1933 ended it.
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