Original sentence: Hitler also thought liberal democracy was nothing more than a preliminary stage of Bolshevism.Hitler and the Nazi's called for a "Germanic Democracy" and frequently denounced liberal democracy as too individualized and atomized to represent the general population and served as a legitimizing theatre for the elite.Hitler often denounced liberal democracy, equating it with internationalism.Hitler was a pan-Germanic nationalist whose ideology was built around a philosophically authoritarian, anti-Marxist, antisemitic and anti-liberal democratic worldview.Nazi political theorist Walter Gerhart affirmed the concept of authoritarian democracy as being able to link authority with the people's will that would be the anti-thesis of liberal democracy that he claimed lacked authority and divided people in an atomistic society.Not only was liberal democracy antithetical to their social-Darwinist abstractions, but its international-capitalist framework was considered an exclusively Jewish-derived conception.Since liberal democratic ideals espoused equality for all men, it represented to Hitler and his Nazi ideologues the notion of mob rule and the hatred of excellence.Such views of the world in the wake of the fledgling Weimar government were not uncommon in Germany since liberal democratic/parliamentary governance seemed ineffectual to solve Germany's problems.The Nazis and especially Hitler associated liberal democracy with the failed Weimar government and the punitive Treaty of Versailles
Edited sentence: Hitler also thought democracy was nothing more than a preliminary stage of Bolshevism.Hitler often denounced democracy, equating it with internationalism.Hitler was a pan-Germanic nationalist whose ideology was built around a philosophically authoritarian, anti-Marxist, antisemitic and anti-democratic worldview.Not only was democracy antithetical to their social-Darwinist abstractions, but its international-capitalist framework was considered an exclusively Jewish-derived conception.Since democratic ideals espoused equality for all men, it represented to Hitler and his Nazi ideologues the notion of mob rule and the hatred of excellence.Such views of the world in the wake of the fledgling Weimar government were not uncommon in Germany since democratic/parliamentary governance seemed ineffectual to solve Germany's problems.The Nazis and especially Hitler associated democracy with the failed Weimar government and the punitive Treaty of Versailles