The threat from the right was very real in the early years of the republic because they were anti-democratic and because the institutions which supposedly held up the constitution of the new republic held these views. One system which exemplified this was the judicial system. The judicial system remianed unchanged by the Weimar governments and thus its attitudes towards the right and left wing remianed unchallenged also. Judges tended to favour the extreme right while condeming the extreme left. For example, 10 out of 22 left-wing assassins were sentenced to death while only 28 out of 354 right wing assassins were found guilty.The number of right wing assassins is also telling of the threat to the Weimar republic. One of the most notable assassinations
