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gandalf

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Fri Dec-17-04 08:58 AM
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32. Not exactly...

Hindenburg was "Reichspräsident", Hitler "Reichskanzler". Responsible for day-to-day-politics was the Kanzler, laws were (normally) made by the Reichstag. The function of the Reichspräsident should have been to represent.

In fact, in the last years of the Weimarer Republik, the Reichspräsident enacted laws if the Reichstag (Parliament) did not agree. Theoretically, he could have enacted laws only in emergency situations.

After Hindeburg died, Hitler took over the job as Reichspräsident as well. But Germany had ceased to be a functioning democracy much earlier.

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