Complex sentence: As the successor to the government of the Weimar Republic, it inherited the government structure and institutions of the pugh the Weimar Constitution technically remained in effect until Germany's surrender in 1945, there were no actual restraints on the exercise of state power.
Split into simpler sentences: As the successor to the government of the Weimar Republic, it inherited the government structure and institutions of the previous state. Although the Weimar Constitution technically remained in effect until Germany's surrender in 1945, there were no actual restraints on the exercise of state power.