Indeed, given his youth and inexperience and the company he kept and the evil mood of the nationalists and officers, to whose ranks he still aspired, it would have been scarcely conceivable for him to have had any other views. They were the old pan-German, biological-racist views grown more extreme in the forcing-house of Bavarian politics. The traditions of separatism, Catholicism and loyalty to the Wittelsbach monarchy had always led Bavarians to distrust Berlin.
