Dr Anton Bosl, Zimbabwe's resident representative of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAF), says civil society should guard against the decay of democracy as that will lead to dictatorship and authoritarianism, as was the case with Germany during Hitler's iron rule.
Bosl said: "A lack of democracy and democratic culture eventually led to the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler and ultimately to the Second World War in which 55 million people died and Europe was destroyed.
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