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Defensive democracy is a term referring to the collection of laws, delegated legislation, and court rulings which limit certain rights and freedoms in a democratic society in order to protect the existence of the state, its democratic character and institutions, minority rights, or other aspects of the democratic system.
Operation Weserübung: Germany invades Denmark and Norway. 10 May Case Yellow: Germany invades the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France. 22 June Armistice of 22 June 1940 with France 1941: Konrad Zuse built the Z3. 6 April Invasion of Yugoslavia: German invasion of Greece: 22 June Operation Barbarossa: German forces invade the Soviet ...
The informal agreement was seen as proof of Germany's national unity in waging what was presented by the imperial leadership as a defensive war. Even though the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) had adopted the Second International 's policy of anti-militarism, it joined the rest of the Reichstag in supporting the declaration of war in ...
West Germany was a founding member of the European Community in 1958, which became the EU in 1993. Germany is part of the Schengen Area, and has been a member of the eurozone since 1999. It is a member of the United Nations, NATO, the G7, the G20 and the OECD. The Economist Intelligence Unit rated Germany a "full democracy" in 2022.
The party wants Germany to quit the euro and reintroduce the Deutsche Mark. Following are some of the key moments in the rise of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), the country's' most successful ...
Germany, as a “defensive democracy,” argues leading Christian conservative and governor of the state of Schleswig-Holstein Daniel Günther, “should use the instruments at its disposal for ...
Peter von Oertzen went particularly far in this respect, describing a social democracy based on councils as a positive alternative to the bourgeois republic. In comparison, Wolfgang J. Mommsen did not regard the councils as a homogeneous focused movement for democracy but as a heterogeneous group with a multitude of different motivations and ...
Building upon more general definitions of liberal democracy, the term has a specific legal meaning in Germany and is part of the German (originally West German) system of a Streitbare Demokratie ("fortified democracy") that bans attempts to dismantle the liberal democratic basic order by what German authorities refer to as "enemies of the ...