Nazism in power was only one paragraph of how i answered the question. I used it to talk about how once in power, democracy had failed, Hitler used these things to strengthen nationalism, showing the people that democracy was weak and was created by the government of weimar (the whole stab in the back thing) and thats why during his reign, he pointed out that failures of democracy to address the people and thus they would never go back to it again.
I get its not a clear link to the question, but my first 2 bodies were my main points on nationalism.
Just to chime,
the way I answered the question was nationalism, to a large extent, did triumph over democracy in the period between 1918 and 1939 (no shit) because:
1) the intransigent/rigid mindset of most Germans were bounded by nationalistic ideals and disproved a complete acceptance of democracy in a nation that held a proud history of authoritarianism etc. mentioned chiefly the Treaty of Versailles that stripped Germany of its national power/pride etc.
2) hitler was able to use the notion of nationalism to attain populist support amid an anti-democratic, politically disillusioned climate (I should have also mentioned the role of propaganda in furthering this emphasis on nationalism but got too caught up in the heat of writing).
3) the doings (rearmament, grossdeustchland etc.) of Nazi foreign policy that were underpinned by nationalistic ideals effectively dismantled the Treaty of Versailles and thereby restored German pride - a clear triumph over democracy that failed to fully overcome this 'diktat'
in hindsight, really could have mentioned a lot more things but i suppose that's how the hsc game goes
wrote some 7.5 pages, which should be about 1000 words for me
