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I disagree with the notion that Germany's Weimar Republic only went because of the Reichstag Fire (you used it as an example of a more sudden demise). The Repub
by neuronic 8y ago
I disagree with the notion that Germany's Weimar Republic only went because of the Reichstag Fire (you used it as an example of a more sudden demise). The Republic was actively sabotaged and dismantled beginning the very day it was formed. It was doomed the day the treaty of Versailles put all the blame of WWI on Germany. And it was people like Stresemann who prevented an earlier "official" demise and it took Hindenburg to position Hitler in a state where he just had to deliver the final blow.
The span here is over a decade - short still, but far from sudden.
- village-idiot 8y agoWithin a lifespan though. It took a lot longer for the Romans to go from a functioning republic to being a true empire with an autocratic and often hereditary ruler. The span from the Gracchi brothers to Augustus was about 180 years, longer still until all pretensions of republican rule were tossed aside. Of course, the Weimar Republic was much weaker than the Roman one, or even the American one at that point in time, meaning it was easier to kill.
- AnimalMuppet 8y agoI don't think that's right. The Gracchi started at 133 BC. Augustus died in 14 AD. And he became emperor... well, that's a bit fuzzy, but he was the man after Actium, which was 31 BC. That's only 102 years (or 147 if you date it from Augustus' death).
- village-idiot 8y agoOops, I measured from Tiberius’ birth in 169BCE, not from the start of his political career.