Challenges to the Republic-Ongoing Violence

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Audrey Anim

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  • Between 1919-1922 there were 376 political assassinations (mostly of left-wing or moderate politicians). This included Matthias Erzberger (who signed the Armistice, killed in August 1921), and Walther Rathenau (Weimar Foreign Minister, killed in June 1922)
  • Judges, sympathetic to the right wing, did not convict and execute any right-wing murderers. This undermined the Weimar Republic
  • Each political party hired armed men (mostly ex-soldiers) to protect their meetings, which led to violence. The KPD armed men were called the Red Front Fighters