HIST 2125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Kapp Putsch, Bavarian Soviet Republic, German National People'S Party
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Groener, freikorps, noske, eisner, von seckt, kapp putsch, erzberger, rathenau. Ddp- democrats, center- roman catholics, dvp- people"s party, dnvp- nationalists ( old conservaties who wanted the monarchy back), nsdap- nazis,kahr, von lossow, tucholsky, rienfenstahl. Have an intelligent opinion back by data as to how and why things happened the way they did between the 2 wars in. The revolution began in the german navy just before the armistice. Created a soviet of workers , soldiers, and sailors. Many times they took possession of local govts. There demands were an end to the war and abdication of wilhelm ii. Social democrats were by definition against the monarchy. A group was expelled because they did not want have more war credits -- independent socialist party uspd. A third group split spartisits become the communist party. Scheidemann said the dynasty fell and declared germany a republic.
