"After taking power, Hitler and the Nazis turned Germany into a dictatorship. Time and again, they used legal means to give their actions a semblance of legality. Step by step, Hitler managed to erode democracy until it was just a hollow facade. Things did not end there, though." (from, Germany 1933: from Democracy to Dictatorship - Anne Frank House)
People forget that at the time of the Nazi's coming to power in 1933, Germany was considered the most advanced, cutting edge, nation on earth. They were not backward or even particularly conservative. To assume it could never happen in our generation, in a modern Western nation, would be naïve to say the least.
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