Date of Award

1938

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Department

Political Science

First Advisor

Joseph A. Ormsby

Second Advisor

D.J. Keegan

Abstract

When 1918 brought the Weimar Constitution and the birth of Democracy in Germany the Germans felt that their dream of a better, freer, fairer society had triumphed. The old caste differences which existed during the monarchy were disappearing. Like the United States, theirs was the land of liberty, freedom, and equality; and for the first time the great German people themselves directed the destiny of the German nation. The popular belief was that the post-war reconstruction of Germany was best served by a liberal government. Tet in 1953, when only fifteen years of age, German Democracy strangled itself and left the nation under the control of a rigid totalitarian dictatorship.

Comments

A thesis submitted to The Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts of Marquette University in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Degree of Bachelor of Philosophy, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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