Asked on Quora. My answer.
You seem to have a misunderstanding of what Western Civilization is. Liberal Democracy is only one facet in the political evolution of Western Civilization. Thanks to the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment it has come to dominate in the contemporary (at least on paper) but historically most western nations have been subjected to various forms of monarchies (many of them absolute), plutocracies and benevolent and non-benevolent dictatorships.
Nazism whether we like it or not has its roots in the Hegelian nature of the march through history. It is not foreign to Western Civilization but a result of what can happen when political structures and necessary institutions collapse.
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