13 March-12 April 1920: The Ruhr Uprising—The general strike called in response to the Kapp Putsch in Berlin escalated into a counter-putsch; the Ruhr Red Army defeated the local Reichswehr & Freikorps & refused to lay down arms even after the Berlin putsch unraveled; the Reichswehr & some of the Freikorps from the Kapp Putsch suppressed the Ruhr Red Army with "a maximum of cruelty."
Lest we forget.
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