Swett's excellent work argues that the street gangs of the last years of Weimar Berlin were motivated primarily by neighbourly conflicts over land and women than they were about communist and Nazi ideology, even as they professed communist and Nazi ideals. The patriarchal structures of the streets were reflected in the violent gangs, which in turn influenced the parties' developments. The social democrats were considered the party of the police, and thus became hated by both sides of the gang war, as well as terrified middle class Berliners, who longed for the restoration of order.