17 March-1 April 1921: The March Action—A year after the Ruhr Uprising was crushed by Freikorps, the Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands called for a general strike in central Germany; more radical leftists stoked this into armed insurrection: banks were robbed, trains were derailed, policemen were murdered; the fiercest open combat was at the Leunawerke, where the workers built their own tank.
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