He's hoping to convey the similarities and differences of the German government from governments of the past since that is the purpose of making comparisons.
The Battle of the Wilderness, fought May 5–7, 1864, was the first battle of Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. ... Both armies suffered heavy casualties, around 5,000 men killed in total, a harbinger of a bloody war of attrition by Grant against Lee's army and, eventually, the Confederate capital, Richmond, Virginia.
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It would be repetition. The repetition is at the end. ("the people")
