How Germany adopted democratic constitution
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After its defeat in World War I, Germany adopted a democratic form of government with a constitution and free elections. But barely 14 years later, the elected German parliament voted to hand over its powers to Adolph Hitler.
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Friedrich Ebert, the provisional president of the German Reichstag (government) signed a new constitution of Germany after the end of World War I. This newly signed constitution came to be known as the Weimar Republic. The formation of the Weimar Republic placed the first parliamentary democracy in Germany. The republic remained in power until the rise of Nazism in Germany. The Republic got its name Weimer after a town of Germany where the new government came into power by a federal assembly after Kaiser Wilhelm II abandoned.
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