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How Democracy Produced a Monster

Submitted by cathy on March 11, 2008 - 5:23pm.
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February 19, 2008
(New York Times, February 3, 2008) The article, "How Democracy Produced a Monster," analyzes how Hitler came to power in a democracy, and reminds us that even today democratic institutions can be used to create authoritarian rule.
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