Survey: In Germany 64% see democracy at risk 80 years after WWII end

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2025-05-08

Berlin (dpa) - Eighty years after Nazi Germany was defeated, a majority in Germany is worried about the state of democracy and has specific fears of a third world war, a survey from the YouGov and Sinus research institutes made available to dpa showed. Of the nearly 2,200, 64% said they see democracy in Germany as being at risk. Additionally, 60% noted parallels between the present day and the 1930s and 1940s, when Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party......

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