Why did the Right Wing fail in its threat to the Weimar Republic in the years 1918-1923?

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Why did the Right Wing fail in its threat to the Weimar Republic in the years 1918-1923?

In 1918 the German Republic was viewed in a bad light by the German public for signing the Treaty of Versailles, and for surrendering to the Allies. After the signing of the Treaty of Versailles extremism set about in Germany. In 1918- 1919 a Marxist revolution had been prevented and many left-wing party leaders were murdered. Left-wing uprisings continued but Germany did not succumb to Communism, the forces of reaction and strident nationalism recovered and emerged by 1920 as the most potent enemies of the Republic. The Republic had made the German people believe they were winning and could have won the war. This and the Treaty of Versailles signing aggravated the German public the most. One quote by Fritz Ernst, a German historian, shows this "We believe that it is the stab in the back alone that had prevented a German victory. We were convinced that one could be patriotic only on the rightist side."

The Republic was under constant pressure by many Right Wing parties, these included the DNVP and the NSDAP (later became the Nazi party)

The DNVP were founded in November of 1918, this at first was the only available political party for Right Wing activists.

The Right Wing parties were becoming ever more popular because of their views on the Treaty of Versailles. These views, along with others, gained them some powerful supporters' e.g. Wilhelmine (the Kaiser of Germany). The Right Wing grew every stronger with the support of civil servants and high-class members of the society e.g. teachers, soldiers, church members and members of the judiciary.

Because of the persons in the Right Wing (judges in general), members of Right Wing groups, if taken to court, were given the lightest sentence possible, for example the sentences given to the Freikorps for their activity in Hitler's Munich Putsch. However if a member of a Left Wing group were taken to court, he/she would be given the harshest sentences, even death.
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The DNVP party had inherited 2 former Conservative parties and Christian socialist and pre-war racist and anti-Semitic organisations. This Right Wing group was set up before the Nazi uprising.

All Right Wing parties hated the Treaty of Versailles, Jews, Communism and democracy. These were hated by all Right Wing groups and some also hated other things, such as, Blacks, etc... This reservoir of hatred was not yet big enough or capable of being mobilised for a particular purpose.

The NSDAP became one of the most powerful Right Wing groups and came to dominate the many 'Volkisch' ...

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