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Chapter 1
War and Revolution, 1918-1919
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Weimar Germany (1918/19–1933)
Chapter (1/15)
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Adolf Hitler on the Outbreak of War in 1914 (Retrospective Account, 1925)
Stefan George, “The War” (1917)
Adolf Hitler on the November Revolution (Retrospective Account, 1925)
Wilhelm Groener on Erich Ludendorff (October 12, 1918)
Arnold Brecht on the Final Weeks of the War (Retrospective Account, 1966)
Mudros Agreement: Armistice with Turkey (October 30, 1918)
Arnold Brecht on the November Revolution (Retrospective Account, 1966)
The Kiel Sailors’ Revolt: Fourteen Points Raised by the Soldiers’ Council (November 4, 1918)
Sailors’ Uprising in Wilhelmshaven (November 6, 1918)
Sailors’ Council on Board the Battleship Prince Regent Luitpold (November 1918)
Appeal to the Population of Schleswig-Holstein (November 7, 1918)
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letter to Clara Westhoff Rilke (November 7, 1918)
The Proclamation of the Bavarian Republic (November 8, 1918)
Bernhard von Bülow, “Revolution in Berlin” (Published Posthumously, 1931)
Revolutionary Sailors and Soldiers Drive through the Brandenburg Gate (November 9, 1918)
Philipp Scheidemann Giving a Speech from a Window of the Reich Chancellery (November 9, 1918)
Philipp Scheidemann Giving a Speech from a Window of the Reich Chancellery (Detail) (November 9, 1918)
Kaiser Wilhelm II on his Abdication (Retrospective Account, 1922)
Käthe Kollwitz on the Revolution (1918-19)
The November Revolution in Berlin (November 9-11, 1918)
Friedrich Ebert (1918)
The First Council of People’s Representatives (November 1918)
Arnold Brecht on his First Weeks in the Chancellery (Retrospective Account, 1966)
Conditions of the Armistice with Germany (November 11, 1918)
Allied Supreme Commander Marshal Ferdinand Foch and the Allied Delegation after Signing the Armistice at Compiègne (November 11, 1918)
Matthias Erzberger (Middle) and Two Members of the German Armistice Commission in Belgium (November 1918)
The Stinnes-Legien Agreement (November 15, 1918)
German Troops Returning from the Western Front across the Belgian-Dutch Border (November 1918)
Returning German Troops Cross the Rhine at Cologne (November 1918)
Members of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Council Receiving Provisions in the Reichstag Building (November 1918)
Military Equipment Is Delivered to the Allies by the Germans under the Terms of the Armistice (1918-1919)
Friedrich Ebert, “Address to the Homecoming Troops” (December 10, 1918)
Wilhelm Groener on the Ebert-Groener Pact (published posthumously, 1957)
Bruno Taut, Program of the “Arbeitsrat für Kunst“ (1918)
“War, Flu and Bolshevism” (1919)
Betty Scholem on the Chaos of Revolution (January 1919)
Arnold Brecht on His Personal Association with the Workers’ Leaders (Retrospective Account, 1966)
Ludwig Meidner, “To All Artists, Musicians, Poets” (January 1919)
Kurt Eisner, “The Socialist Nation and the Artist” (1919)
Felix Gilbert on the Legacies of the Revolution (Retrospective Account, 1988)
Philipp Scheidemann Opposes the Acceptance of the Treaty of Versailles (May 12, 1919)
National Assembly Debate on the Treaty of Versailles (June 22, 1919)
Versailles Treaty: The Boundaries of Germany (June 28, 1919)
Versailles Treaty: The Free City of Danzig (June 28, 1919)
Versailles Treaty: The German Colonies (June 28, 1919)
The Versailles Treaty: Military Clauses (June 28, 1919)
Versailles Treaty: Reparations (June 28, 1919)
Arnold Brecht on the Versailles Treaty (Retrospective Account, 1966)
Matthias Erzberger on the Need for Tax Reform (July 8, 1919)
The Weimar Constitution (August 11, 1919)
Hitler’s First Written Statement on Antisemitism: Reply to Adolf Gemlich (September 16, 1919)
Paul von Hindenburg’s Testimony before the Parliamentary Investigatory Committee [“The Stab in the Back”] (November 18, 1919)
Rosa Luxemburg on the National Assembly Debate (December 1918)
View into the Courtyard of the City Palace after the So-Called Christmas Fights (December 1918)
The Second Council of People’s Representatives (December 29, 1918)
Rosa Luxemburg, “Our Program and the Political Situation” (December 30, 1918)
Rosa Luxemburg, Co-founder of the Spartacus League (c. 1918)
Karl Liebknecht Holds a Speech in Front of the Ministry of the Interior (January 1919)
Max Pechstein, To All Artists! [An alle Künstler] (January 1919)
Klara Reichmann: “Being Allowed to Vote Means: You Must Vote” (January 1919)
The Occupation of the Newspaper Quarter (January 5, 1919)
Street Clashes in Berlin during the January Uprising (January 1919)
Turbulent Days in Berlin: The January Uprising (1919)
Newsreel Report on the January Uprising in Berlin (1919)
Newspaper Roll Barricades in Front of the Mosse Publishing House (January 11, 1919)
Kurt Eisner on his Way to the Bavarian State Parliament (Early 1919)
Demobilization of the German Army (January 14, 1919)
Actress Senta Söneland Campaigns for Women’s Suffrage at the National Assembly (January 17, 1919)
The Big Three of Versailles: Georges Clemenceau, Woodrow Wilson, and David Lloyd George (1919)
The Paris Peace Conference (January 18, 1919-January 21, 1920)
Oscar Müller, "The People and the Vote" (January 20, 1919)
Action Program of the Independent Social Democratic Party (1919)
The Burial of Karl Liebknecht and other Murdered Revolutionaries (January 25, 1919)
Friedrich Ebert Delivers the Opening Speech at the First Session of the National Assembly in Weimar (February 6, 1919)
The First Session of the National Assembly in Weimar (February 6, 1919)
The Weimar Constitution: Empire or Republic? (1919)
French Cavalry in the Streets of Mainz (April 23, 1919)
Mounted Troops Enter Munich after the Defeat of the Councils’ Republic [Räterepublik] (May 1919)
Soldiers with Machine Guns in Augsburg (April 1919)
East African (Askari) Member of the Lettow-Vorbeck Freikorps in Munich (May 1919)
The German Negotiators at Versailles (1919)
Mass Demonstration in front of the Reichstag against the “Brutal Peace” (May 15, 1919)
Mass Demonstration in Berlin’s Lustgarten against the Treaty of Versailles (1919)
Friedrich Naumann, Speech on Berlin’s Königsplatz (1919)
Platform of the German Democratic Party (1919)
Principles of the German People’s Party (1919)
Scuttling of the German Fleet in Scapa Flow (June 21, 1919)
National Assembly Debate on the Peace Treaty (June 23, 1919)
The Signing of the Treaty of Versailles (June 28, 1919)
The Signing of the Peace Treaty of Versailles (June 28, 1919)
The Destruction of Heavy Weaponry after the Signing of the Treaty of Versailles (1919)
Karl Helfferich, “The July Resolution, the Beginning of the Moral Collapse” (July 1st, 1919)
Matthias Erzberger on the Dangers of Bolshevism (July 8, 1919)
“We Have Atoned for Your Guilt”: Matthias Erzberger on the Responsibility for Germany’s Plight (July 25, 1919)
Matthias Erzberger on the Dissolution of the Former Imperial Army (October 30, 1919)
Arnold Zweig, Reflections on the Revolution (Retrospective Account, 1947/48)
The Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch: Members of the Ehrhardt Marine Brigade with the Imperial Navy Flag (March 1920)
The Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch: Soldiers on Wilhelmplatz in Berlin (March 1920)
The Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch: “Kapp Government” Troops in a Truck on Potsdamer Platz (March 1920)
The Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch in Berlin (1920)
The Stab in the Back (April 1924)
“Germany’s Dismemberment” (1928)
Machine gun post of the Volksmarine in front of the Berlin City Palace (December 1918)
Politics, 1920-1929