[watwut]

I read the same book and liberal elites were ot a thing in that book. Seriously.

The goverment workers were ex-soldiers, leaning right and supporting dictatorship. Judges, cops and prosecutors were leaning right and much more lenient to the right. Country leadership were former aristocracy and pro monarchy. Journals belonged to parties, each having own.

There was real communist uprising, having nothing to do with the only pro democratic party social democrats. Which was NOT elite and more of middle class thing.

Social democrats did not collapsed until Hitler took power and imprisoned them in amos right as he took power. And that last election was quite violent, with a lot of violence from the nazi side and a lot of attempts to tie communists to social democrats. Hitler did not had to win, altrought he did.

[InTheArena]

I would (humbly) suggest you look a the state of the government during the entire Weimar period, not just the end. Here is a list of the Chancellors during that period:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chancellors_of_Germany...

The Centre Party, the SPD, the GPP dominated that period - they all recognized the weimar government, human rights, liberal economics.

(BTW, it's not one book - it's a trilogy of books).