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The Weimar Republic I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Since from 1920 on neither the Weimar Coalition alone nor the parties of the Right alone could muster a majority in the Reichstag, owing to the strength of the USPD and KPD, the great parliamentary problem of the Weimar Republic was the relationship between the SPD and the DVP. |
 | | Of all the old forces from imperial Germany that survived into the Weimar Republic, none was as dangerous as the Junkers, with their economic base in agriculture, their prestige base in east-Elbian society, and their positions of power in the army and the civil service. |
 | | Very few supporters of the Weimar Republic even made any attempt to deal with this ''disloyal opposition.'' The SPD, to whom the men of the DNVP had been wont to apply the label ''enemy of the state'' before 1914, forbore to turn the tables after 1918. |
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