Sunday, April 7, 2019

The Explorers' Club, № DCLXXX

Operation AXIOM: After the World War—The German Revolution, Part VII
6 April-3 May 1919: The Bavarian Soviet Republic—Communists seized power in Munich after the demise of the anarchistic People's State of Bavaria, which had come to power in November 1918; the Räterepublik was led by a troika of Russian émigrés, who instituted a bloody "Red Terror;" Weimar's authority was reestablished by a coalition of Freikorps after heavy street fighting in Munich.





Lest we forget.

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