HIS242H1 Lecture Notes - Independent Social Democratic Party Of Germany, Bolsheviks
Document Summary
After kiel workers and soldiers councils are prevalent around north and central germany. Nov 9, 1919- kaiser wilhelm ii abdicates and flees to the netherlands. Republic declared twice; by the reform socialists in the reichstag and the radical socialists in the kaiser"s palace (these groups fight during the revolution) The german labour movement is the largest in europe and is now divided between parties. During the 1920s the sdp (socialists) fight the kpd (communists) in the streets of berlin. Ebart becomes the new chancellor of germany, 1st president of weimar. Kpd is founded when the sparticists break from the uspd (independent. The fight is on the left but ebart brings in the freikorps against the sparticists (bad move). Operations council (freikorps group) murder the head of the kpd (luxembourg and lippenburg *spoke out against war in 1914*- abducted, held, tortured, murdered and thrown into the berlin river) Election- very high turnout, liberal democratic parties (reform socialists,
