100 years Ago, was the Weimar Constitution. Even today, the citizens should always show how much you appreciate democracy, said the former President of the Bundestag Thierse.
tagesschau24 : The Weimar Republic was not even 14 years. In the Constitution, were weak partly responsible?
Wolfgang Thierse: I don't think that it has located very in the Constitution. It was probably more to the fact that elites do not support democracy, the military, and that the right - and left-radical forces have attacked the democracy. This democracy has had it hard after the First world war, after the Treaty of Versailles, in the face of mass unemployment and the world economic crisis. There are so many factors came together.