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Transcript: A Comparison of Russia and the Weimar Republic - Part 2
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- NPR Morning Edition
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- June 24, 1994
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BOB EDWARDS, Host: This is Morning Edition. I'm Bob Edwards. This
morning, we have the second of two reports on the similarities between
Russia today and Germany during the period after World War I, known
as the Weimar Republic. Weimar was an attempt to build democracy
in a Germany defeated by war, humiliated by punitive war reparations,
ostracized by the international community. Weimar lasted 14 years,
from 1919 to 1933, when Adolph Hitler came to power. NPR Moscow
correspondent Mike Shuster prepared this report on concerns that Russia
may be producing a new Hitler.
[file tape of Adolph Hitler speaking to German crowds, followed by
German ...