Germany had limited democratic traditions and Weimar democracy was widely seen as chaotic.

He was suspicious of the new Weimar democracy and believed "the revolutionary ideas of 1918 had caused considerable damage to Catholic Christianity."

In Eschweiler's view, a powerful corrective to the chaos that, ethnically, morally, and religiously tolerant Weimar democracy had brought to Germany, was needed.

He was a supporter of the Weimar democracy.

And the blame was laid on the Weimar democracy.

With the Weimar democracy, the Black, Red and Gold colours went down fighting.

The ill-fated Weimar democracy replaced the German Empire and faced a series of social, economic and political challenges.

Many on the right hoped that once in power he would destroy Weimar democracy from the inside and restore the pre-Weimar status quo.

In other words, Hitler's successes discredited above all the freedom-oriented system drawn up by Parliament, the Weimar democracy itself.