

These was this whole ‘Prussia’ thing, too. The Weimar Republic inherited the government from the Prussian King who thought he was keeping his Monarchy. The Prussian military aristocracy sort of did too.
So you had the dominant state of the German Empire: Prussia, trying to reinforce/reimplement their hegemony over the other German states as a relevant background. The disenfranchised monarchists and anti-republic paramilitaries were quite influential in undermining the Weimar government.
I dunno, 3 makes wild accusations about implied meanings. Seems suspect.