Democratic Peace Theory

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I guess this doesn't belong here, really, but I take strong exception to WWII being on the "list of exceptions".

Wikipedia claims that Adolf Hitler was democratically elected into office, which is not at all true.

The party he led was elected to power.  The Nazis then formed a coalition with the German National Peoples' Party and then he was APPOINTED chancellorship by the president of Germany.  He then created a disaster and used the panic that resulted to exploit a loophole in the constitution that allowed him to consolidate power and gave him and his cabinet legislative powers.  At that point, well before WWII began, Hitler was a dictator and Germany's democracy was non-existent.

While it can be argued that Hitler consolidated power legally, it was no longer a democracy in practice.

While Britain, France, and the U.S. were democracies at the time, they were also allies.  The Democratic nations were fighting a fascist dictatorship.