Weimar political parties

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The Weimar German Republic that existed from 1918 to 1933 had a multi-party political system in which numerous political parties were competitive and able to contest elections. In the fourteen years that the German Republic was in existence, over forty political parties were represented by at least one member in the Reichstag, with others seeing representation just at the Landtag level. In addition to this, many groups and minor political parties existed which were often linked to more prominent political parties, and stood candidates through shared electoral lists. This political fragmentation was in part due to the many challenges facing the nascent German democracy in this period and many contrasting views on the developments on-going in Germany, and in part due to the specific form of proportional representation electoral system that did not harshly punish regional or small special-interest parties. After the Nazi seizure of power, they used the provisions of the Reichstag Fire Decree...

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