Political violence lasted through the Weimar Republic from the civil war battles in its early years to the bloody clashes between National Socialists and Communists in its final phase.
After the phase of the civil war, political violence served parties as an instrument for exerting pressure in the struggle over control of the street.
Combat Leagues, in their uniforms and with the marches, injected militaristic elements into the political culture
The extreme right was able to instrumentalise violence for its campaign against the Weimar democracy. the violence prevented political conflicts in the Weimar Republic from taking a peaceful course. …show more content…
Masculinity became a central value in all political subcultures.
The civil war fighting of 1919-1921 cannot be understood merely as the result of a widespread brutalisation as a result of the experience of WWI.
Too simplistic to see a traumatisation of the bourgeoisie through military defeat, revolution and inflation as the primary cause behind the political violence in Weimar.
The history of political violence in the Weimar Republic is one piece of evidence that the Republic failed, because large segments of the bourgeoisie were unable to free themselves of their outdated authoritarian frame of