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> So I would say Hitler and Germany is a lesson in how not to set up a democracy. It basically enabled his rise to power.

And indeed, constitutions and electoral systems took these lessons into account afterwards. Nowadays it is hard to win an election with 1/3 of the vote:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_1932_German_federal_e...




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