threats from political extreamists
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- threats from political extremists
- threat from the extreme left
- spartacist uprising 1919
- 1919 spartacists attempted to launch an attempted a communist revolution
- freikorps sent to crush it by president Ebert
- leaders of sparticists Rosa luxenbourg and karl liebknecht, were killed
- freikorps sent to crush it by president Ebert
- 1919 spartacists attempted to launch an attempted a communist revolution
- strikes risings and communist takeover
- widespread strike action and communist street violence created atmosphere of instability
- communists also temporarily took controlled or rebelled in certain areas
- bovaria 1919/ ruhr 1920/saxony and thuringia 1923
- army and sometimes freikorps acted to crush these rebellions with support of ebert
- bovaria 1919/ ruhr 1920/saxony and thuringia 1923
- communists also temporarily took controlled or rebelled in certain areas
- widespread strike action and communist street violence created atmosphere of instability
- fear of communism
- left wing revolutionaries and the success of the communist takeover in russia made people in germany fear a revolution
- while fearing this revolution people overlooked the threat from the extreme right
- left wing revolutionaries and the success of the communist takeover in russia made people in germany fear a revolution
- spartacist uprising 1919
- threat from the extreme right
- the Kapp putsch 1920
- after an attempt to disband part of the freikorps, a group of right wing politicians and soliders who opposed this move and seized control of government in berlin
- ebert and his ministers fled to stuttgart
- the putsch lacked support from general public and the elite and so collpased
- assassinations and violence
- Anti weimar parlimentart groups carried out political attacks on their opponants
- right wing death squads primarilry organisation consul carried out 354 political assasinations
- ideas
- ideas such as the stab in the back made democracy seem weak and un german and portrayed democratic politicians as traitors
- the Kapp putsch 1920
- threat from the extreme left
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