The German Review

The German Review

Is German democracy under threat (again)?

Germany's President Frank Walter-Steinmeier (SPD) got into hot waters for invoking history to make a case against the AfD. Was he right to do so?

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Rachel Stern
Nov 12, 2025
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Dear Reader,

The 9th of November is arguably the most important day in modern German history.

Known as Schicksalstag (Day of Fate), it marks four pivotal moments when democracy was born, threatened, destroyed — and reborn again.

On November 9th, 1918, two days before the armistice that ended World War I, the Weimar Republic was proclaimed from a balcony of…

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