The executive WAS the President. I'm not confused. You and droiduzr2 seem to be though.
Alas you are - in the US the Pres chooses who to run different parts of government and s/he makes the BIG decisions.
In most European countries, the executive is the "cabinet" made up of MPs, chosen and led by the Prime Minister (Chancellor)
Its NP tho, I dont mind
In pre-WWII Germany, the President had very real power.
Real but not large - an elected [UK style] Queen/King if you will
In fact, it was only after convincing the President that Communists were about to take the country by force, that the President granted Hitler Emergency powers.
iirc thats correct - the parliament vodted for it tho first
Which is how Hitler got power, real power.
The President let him be PM first - the head of the executive
The [4 year
] Emergency Powers act allowed him to become dictator of Germany
The people's will? The Nazi party was a minority in the Reichstag. Granted, it was a sizable minorty, but a minority none the less.
I dont have the numbers to hand - but in 1932, the Nazis had nearly twice as much seats as the Communists (afaik 45%), then another election was called where they got, iirc 39%
Shadowninty. Take a step back. Read up on HOW Hitler came to power.
Then come back and lets have this discussion all over again.
Yeah I did (not too in depth ofc)
It was decidedly NOT the will of the people.
As economy gets worse - people seek extreme solutions - in this case fascism and socialism
Not only that - but Germans were hurt - financially and mentally by their defeat in WWI
The Nazis would make Germany great again
Expand it, build the army, get revenge
Their scapegoating was also very appealling
This can be seen today by people veering to the far left and far right, and the classic we have no policy just rethoric groupings
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