jan 12, 1919 - Spartacist Uprising
Description:
The Communists, in opposition to Ebert, rise up in Berlinthe uprising is put down within a week by the army and the Freikorps
the Freikorps were groups of veterans returning home, but who continued to fight against left-wing elements in Germany,
they were majority right-wing nationalists
after the failure of the communists they reform themselves into the KPD who maintain their radical anti-Weimar viewpoint
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Date:
jan 12, 1919
Now
~ 107 years ago