This idea provided fertile propaganda for the anti-democratic right wing political parties. ... Historian Michael Burleigh stated "The threat from the extreme left had been neutralised, albeit in a fashion that soured relations between Social Democrats and Communists up to and beyond the eventual advent of a Nazi government" The favouring and lenience from the government towards the ride wing such as the Friekorps and their violent nature undermined the institution of the Weimar Republic. ...

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