Until the time of Austrian occupation 1933-1945, Germany was never fascistic. The German Reich before 1918 was a constitutional monarchy de iure, but de facto a parlamentarian one, at least after Bismarck was fired. From the written laws the Reichstag had many de facto rights, even if it wasn't written in the constitution directly. So Kaiser Wilhelm II. only appointed men, who had a majority in the Reichstag. Also could the Reistag stop many more things than many think, as she had the budget rights. So without a majority in the Reichstag, there could not have been a ww1. The Kaiser declared the war. But he had to be sure to have the majority. What he had indeed. So to say the German Reich was a more democratic state in that days in contrast to many other states, including Great Britain, as there was, on the level of the Reich, generally all male citizens above 25 allowed to vote. In Britain many poors were excluded and in the US the Blacks and the Indians.´
Sorry, El J, to make it a German constitutional history lesson.
Adler