smth smth, if the November revolution hadn’t been crushed by the SPD, there would have been no Hitlerite Germany smth smth

  • Telemachus93@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    1 month ago

    And soviet russia could also have taken a less authoritarian road with Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht still there to criticize such developments…

  • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Ebert would’ve preferred a return to monarchy. His version of democracy and the party was the one that existed within the Prussian Kingdom and the German Empire.

    While the Freikorps were the proto-nazis, in Ebert’s time they were still mostly just monarchists and military aristocracy who opposed the republic. They all hated the Nazis for being peasants, but agreed with their policies nonetheless.