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After Germany lost the First World War, the Kaiser escaped and a new democratic government of Germany was declared in February 1919 in the small town of Weimar. It was too dangerous to make a statement in Berlin where there had just been a revolt of a communist group called Spartacists. The Weimar Republic was a real attempt to create a perfect democratic country.

The Weimar Republic looked like perfect democracy, but it had two major weaknesses - the relationship of choice and Article 48