so in this video we're gonna have a look at the political problems in Vermont Germany between the years of 1919 and 1922 now we're gonna be looking specifically a number of different sectors of the political spectrum and the threats that they pose to Vimal Germany I'm gonna start with the left-wing threat so there were a number of different opinion within the left-wing okay so what we find is that there is a significant divide among the left when it comes to the different ways in which they want to govern the vomer Germany so the SPD were committed to a parliamentary democracy so they were what we would say were Pro von Maur they were probe Aimar Germany they were the ones to who wanted to see it through and hope that it would and commit to the institution of Weimar Germany and then we had the KPD which was the German Communist Party so that's the wrong so the KPD were the German German Communist Party and they wanted to see the collapse of the vine last day into a communist state and this is reminiscent of the 1917 revolution and the civil war in Russia and the Bolsheviks state turning into a communist Soviet Union they wanted that a similar thing to happen in Germany and then we have the you SPD who pressed for a socialist society within the parliamentary democracy so we also here have a more left-wing version of the SPD and they wanted they will also provide more Germany so Pro parliamentary democracy parliamentary democracy but they wanted to see the institution the instigation shall we say of communism okay sorry communism sort of socialism so as we can see here we've got uh some different opinions about the the sort of ways in which the Left wanted to govern the country however the was also a huge right-wing threat as well as extremism on both sides became a major problem so the right-wing rejected the Von Maur system so they were anty anty parliamentary democracy anti parliamentary democracy and we see this because the Vimal system was very revolutionary and very progressive for its time it was one of the most liberal progressive democracies and government systems and constitutions should we say since basically in history and it really did and it really did bring in a lot of progressive ideas so the right wing were definitely very anti the Valmeyer system and the right wing can also be split into two sub wings of of ideals so we have the conservative right who wants to restore the monarchy and generally supported the n that so the dnvp so the nationalist party so these were the people that wanted to see a restoration of the monarchy so they wanted the Kaiser back effectively so they wanted to bring back the Kaiser and these were the people who were generally the elder older generations who knew what it was like to live under the the Bismarck era and the Kaiser and wanted to see that come again because they were they were and they were almost reminiscent and then we have the radical right okay and this is where we see the the nationalistic anti-democratic anti-semitic and this is where we see a lot of support going towards the NSDAP or the Nazi Party Nazi Party however this was a rather small minority in via Marjorie at the time okay this is bare mud this is very early in the development of our margin it's only 1919 and 1922 so the NSDAP was still a rather small party and so too were also the KPD because what we have if I was to if I try and draw a line this actually lets me draw a draw a straight line it's not actually not to me draw a straight line I want to get me go finally right we have the left here we have the KPD are probably the most extreme left and the NSDAP extreme right okay and the part is in between so you will have people like the dnvp here okay and then we'll have the USPD here you SPD here and then within the middle area we see the we see the SPD okay and now the majority of the electorate were sort of within this sort of area here okay they saw the s the NSDAP and the KPD as extremists and they didn't really vote for them at this point in time so we have see a lack of support for extremist parties so there is lack of support of support for extremist parties extremist parties however this is only when I say lack of support for secretary miss parties this is relative to what is to come okay there was still if we compare it to support for extremist parties today it there was still a huge amount of support for extremist parties but at the time the support for extremist parties was not as high as it will become okay so among I will include that so not as high as it will become okay and if we have a look at the system of weak government and justice so this is another political issue within Vimal Germany at this time so the via our judiciary protect practice unequal justice okay so it wasn't exactly a political so it was not a political not a political at all it was relatively biased so we have a system here where the government wasn't we say was very progressive government it wasn't as progressive as it would as people would have liked it to have been and also between the years 1919 to 1922 they were three hundred and seventy-six assassinations okay 22 of them by the left and 354 by the right so we can see here that the method of political the political methods by the right wing so the right wing favoured assassinations more okay right wins favored assassinations that was less of a thing with the among the left ring as we can see here with the 22 versus 354 okay however if we look at take-up back to the idea of unequal justice and left-wing assassins were sentenced to death however zero right-wing assassins were sentenced to death so if you really think about it only 22 assassinations compared to 354 on each side and it was the left that saw the assassinations sent assassins sentence is death and zero on the right and that's because the majority of people still feared this solve this sort of communist left-wing ideals because they saw what happened to Russia in 1917 and the fear of communism saw is spread and existed and has existed for hundred for the hundred years or so that the Communist Party and communism as a whole has been has been part of modern political philosophy there was also what we would say was a weak government so the 1924 Vimal coalition parties they were from having 78 percent of the vote to only 45 percent of the vote all these things have come out of the idea of the the problems with the Treaty of Versailles and they sort of stab in the back myth that the the top conservatives and the heads of the Vermont government stabbed their nation in the back by signing the Treaty of Versailles and we know that the government was weak anyway because oh well was happening here we know that the government is weak anyway because Khoa the coalition parties so coalition parties never really agreed upon policies to to implement and so the reichstag never got any legislation through effectively so the the coalition was what we call very partisan very partisan because there were so many different parties with all their different ideals and because the system of representation was proportional so even if some even if they got a few number of votes that still equaled a few number of C's no one won a majority in the Reichstag to then pass legislation through so they had to team up with other parties and then we also see problems stemming from the Treaty of Versailles so the Treaty of Versailles the Treaty of Versailles was very detrimental to the government because they took the blame for accepting the Treaty of Versailles and then this brings us up to the first of the the attempted revolutions that happened around the early start of the vine mass system and we'll go look at the the cap push today and we're gonna look at the Munich put in another video because there's a little more detailed so dr. wolfgang cap and General von Ludwick's wanted to overthrow the government and so in March 1920 the government ordered the disbanding of captain earns arts of army corps freikorps okay according to the Treaty of Versailles so this is the this is the provision within the Treaty of Versailles is that Germany was only allowed a hundred thousand men only allowed a hundred thousand men and the result of that is the a huge number of army barracks had to disband and they had to just get rid of them because they weren't allowed any more than a hundred thousand men and therefore up Corps following cap and Ludwik little bit sorry the five thousand army soldiers marched into Berlin in protest okay and they the government requested the right sewer but they said no because they sympathized with the protesters okay so there was still an air of revolution so they're the people of Berlin the people of Berlin people of Berlin not necessarily supported but they definitely sympathized with the protesters so sympathized with they understood what the protesters were protesting for sympathized with protesters okay and a number of them did also support the protest okay but why did the push eventually collapse why did it fail okay so you've got the right sewer leaders who did not support cap okay and most of the government bureaucrats refused to obey caps orders so just like modern protests the protest fell because no one submitted to the protest so no one submitted submitted to the protest it would have been it would have been a different story if they had the government bureaucrats had listened to what cap wanted and but they just didn't and therefore there was nothing that cap could really do and so the protests had seemed to just diffuse and breakaway okay and so in the next video we will look at the Munich push with Hitler and also the crisis of hyperinflation and the economic problems that were started to build up over this time as well