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Germany’s last officially fascist government was democratically elected

Citation needed.

For Hitler? He won the most seats of all the parties in the Reichstag in 1932 with 37 or so percent of the vote. That majority would normally have gotten him appointed as Chancellor (by tradition).

He used violence and backroom dealing to get from that majority to become Führer, but without a doubt Hitler did get his foot into the door democratically.

He was never democratically elected.

> Germany has its problems, but it's consistently in the top 15 most democratic nations in the world.

According to what? Some think tank’s “democracy index”, carefully constructed to preserve the illusion that Western countries are free and democratic? That’s begging the question.

Germany does not look "solidly democratic" from the outside.

Source: Russia Today?