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Unlike many of his contemporaries, Johannes Koch did not fundamentally disapprove of the Weimar Republic’s multi-party democracy. In a letter to his brother, the twenty-five-year-old vicar described his political views in the run-up to the Reichstag elections in December of 1924. They were guided by his interest in resolving the “social question”. Thus, he placed his hopes in renewed social democracy. He clearly aligned himself against inactive liberalism, government sponsored Stahlhelm hype, the Aryan fad and deliberately false chauvinism.


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