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Re:Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for offic... by ffgjgf1 on Monday July 01, 2024 @03:08PM (#40849334)
> It just gave the leader certain rights, and suddenly Hitler became the dictator, creating Nazi Germany

Not it didn’t give him those rights. The parliament (including moderate parties) explicitly granted him the power to so whatever he wanted after the nazis were already in power.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Act_of_1933

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Re:Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for offic... by ffsm8 on Monday July 01, 2024 @03:50PM (#40849863)
Now read up on how he got his people into the Parlament and have your mind blown
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Re:Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for offic... by ffgjgf1 on Monday July 01, 2024 @04:24PM (#40850262)
Winning elections? There was only so much they could do without cooperation from the other far-right parties and especially Hindenburg.
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