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Context: This is an archived article from 1939 by "Foreign Affairs".
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/germany/1939-04-01/will-hitler-save-democracy
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It worked fine at the time, the problem is that all of that motivation to defend democracy was artificial, and slowly faded from the public as the war faded into the past.