HIS317H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Erich Ludendorff, Franco-Prussian War, Article 231 Of The Treaty Of Versailles
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Democracy in a time of hyperinflation: the post war crisis, 1919-1923. The two declarations, november 9, 1918: scheiedemann. Against peace of annexations- only that peace would be stable. Get rid of prussian three class system. Believes the defeat came from the high military officials, as they would not give up their demands and enter peace talks. Calls for a social and political revolution. The king is dead vs the king has abdicated. Prussian king had to give into the revolutionary demands. Talks about suffering of working people in germany. Calling out image of ghosts who died of german ills. Thinks we must have a rupture, break with the past. Scheidemann talks of continuity: prince max von baden. Risen up through spd from workers unions. Provisional gvnt- majority socialists and independent socialists. How do you move men from being soldiers to workers: move from war time to peace time, what to do with all of weapons.
