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By 8 January 1915, pictures had made their way to the press, and the Mirror and Sketch printed front-page photographs of British and German troops mingling and singing between the lines. The tone of the reporting was strongly positive, with the Times endorsing the "lack of malice" felt by both sides and the Mirror regretting that the "absurdity ...
The German government, dominated by the Junkers, saw the war as a way to end being surrounded by hostile powers France, Russia and Britain. The war was presented inside Germany as the chance for the nation to secure "our place under the sun," as the Foreign Minister Bernhard von Bülow had put it, which was readily supported by prevalent ...
However the union members were not united in this regard. Some 50-80 shop stewards associated with the Berlin branch of the German Metal Workers' Union (DMV) favoured a strike in support of Liebknecht. [5] [6] The shop stewards met on the evening of 27 June at the Musiker-Festsäle dance hall to discuss a possible action. The stewards ...
Wrecked German ammunition train at Technology during World War I, by Schutz Group photographers (edited by Durova) Red Cross recruiting poster for nurses at History of nursing , by David Henry Souter (edited by Durova and Steven Crossin )
The original black and white photographs were painstakingly colourised to mark the World War One centenary.
Under a decree issued by Reich Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Frick on 13 July 1933 (one day before the ban on all non-Nazi parties), all German public employees were required to use the salute. [5] The decree also required the salute during the singing of the national anthem and the "Horst-Wessel-Lied ". [5]
Workers' and soldiers' councils, for which the term "soviets" (German: Räte, singular Rat) was coined, were first set up during the Russian Revolution.The increasingly straitened living standards of German workers under the hardships of World War I made political parties such as the Independent Social Democrats (USPD), which opposed the war, more and more appealing.
The key factors leading to the revolution were the extreme burdens suffered by the German people during the war, the economic and psychological impacts of the Empire's defeat, and the social tensions between the general populace and the aristocratic and bourgeois elite. [1] [2] The revolution began in late October 1918 with a sailors' mutiny at ...