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.