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  1. The constitutional republic in Germany
  2. 1919-33, which was crippled by the election
  3. of antidemocratic parties to the Reichstag,
  4. and then subverted by the Nazi leader Hitler
  5. after his appointment as chancellor in 1933.
  6. It took its name from the city where in Feb
  7. 1919 a constituent assembly met to draw up a
  8. democratic constitution.
  9.