Kapp Putsch
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- KAPP PUTSCH - MARCH 1920 EXTREME RIGHT WING
- WOLFGANG KAPP - LEADER - right wing journalist who felt humiliated by the TOV a and thought the terms on the arm were too harsh
- TRIGGER - March 1920 Ebert tried to disband the Freikorps to please the Allies
- Freikorps units led by Kapp, marches into Berlin and declared a new national government
- NOT STOPPED BY ARMY, EBERT AND HIS GOVERNMENT FLED TO DRESDEN
- Ebert called for a GENERAL STRIKE - all transport links halted so putsch participants couldn't communicate
- SUCCESSFUL - Putsch collapsed within days
- Those who participated were never punished
- Showed that the government didn't have the support of the army
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