Berlin’s Dangerous Rescuers
About this episode
In 1919, Germany's new democracy turned right-wing militias on its own capital. The war was lost, the Kaiser gone.
Research sources for this film
- German workers' and soldiers' councils 1918–1919
- Historical Documents - Office of the Historian
- Historical Documents - Office of the Historian
- German revolution of 1918–1919
- Spartacus League
- Vom Kaiserreich zur Republik 1918/19 | Weimarer Republik | bpb.de
- Deutsche Biographie: Eichhorn, Emil
- 1918 Christmas crisis (Wikipedia)
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