Weimar Germany - Violent party takeover attempts
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- Created on: 15-04-13 12:21
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- Takeover attempts
- Communists
- The Spartakist Uprising 1919
- They tried to take over Berlin and start a Communist revolution
- The Government turned the Freikorps on them leading to brutal murders. They were stopped
- Leaders Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht were murdered
- Communists in Bavaria 1919
- The Communists said that Bavaria was a Communist republic
- The Freikorps turned on them. 600 Communists were killed
- The leader Eisner was shot dead
- Red rising in the Ruhr 1921
- Workers formed and army of 50,000
- The Freikorps put them down. 2,000 were killed
- Leaders were killed
- The Spartakist Uprising 1919
- Nationalists
- Kapp Putsch 1920
- Kapp led the Freikorps in an attempt to take over Berlin
- The army would not move against him, but all the workers in Berlin went on strike so Kapp gave up
- Kapp was put in prison
- Hitler's Munich or Beer Hall Putsch 1923
- Hitler was put in prison for 9 months
- Hitler tried to take over Munich
- Kapp Putsch 1920
- Communists
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