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Historical Cases

Historical cases of democratic breakdown — Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Fujimori's Peru — showing how the tactics in the playbook worked in practice.

Last updated November 5, 2026. Every factual claim links to its source.

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Nazi Germany: The Legal Seizure of Power (1933–1934)How the Reichstag Fire Decree, the Enabling Act and Gleichschaltung turned the Weimar Republic into a dictatorship in under two years.Italy: Mussolini's Rise (1922–1926)How Benito Mussolini went from an ultimatum and the March on Rome in 1922 to a one-party state by 1926, through a rigged electoral law, a fraudulent election and the murder of Giacomo Matteotti.Peru under Fujimori (1990–2000)How Alberto Fujimori, elected in 1990, closed Congress and reorganised the courts in an April 1992 self-coup, ruled until 2000, and was later sentenced to 25 years for human-rights crimes.

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