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The widespread use of Telo Mimetico cloth by soldiers of the German Reich coincided with the 1943 disarmament of the Italian forces. Waffen-SS units were the most conspicuous users of Italian camouflage material, although it was also worn by Wehrmacht units in Italy and the Balkans. [Image: Almark Publishing Co. Ltd.]

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The German Republic emerged from the German Revolution of November 1918. In 1919, a national assembly convened in the city of Weimar, where a new constitution for the German Reich was written, that was adopted on 11 August. The first attempt to establish a liberal democracy in Germany failed with the ascent of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in 1930. Although technically the 1919 constitution was not invalidated until after World War II, the legal measures taken by the Nazi government in February and March 1933, commonly known as Gleichschaltung (literally 'equal switching', 'synchronization'; meaning 'coordination', 'making the same', 'bringing into line') , destroyed the mechanisms of a true democracy.

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