Weimar Republic - November Revolution 1918 - Struggle for a Republic in Germany
The November Revolution, which began with the sailors' uprising and the formation of workers' and soldiers' councils, initiated the overthrow of the German Empire. On November 9, 1918, Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated and the Republic was proclaimed in Berlin. Bloody clashes ensued between radical leftists and supporters of parliamentary democracy, who ultimately prevailed. On January 19, 1919, the National Assembly was elected and opened in Weimar.
01.01.1919 - German Revolution 1918/1919: Revolutionary sailors are pictured on Pariser Platz in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin during the street fights in late 1918 / early 1919. Phot...
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01.01.1918 - German Revolution 1918/1919: Destroyed columns of the National Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial, which was located on the west side of the Berlin Palace, are pictured in Berlin, Germany. Da...
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05.01.1919 - 5527323 (9002126) Karl LIEBKNECHT, deutscher Politiker (Spartakusbund / KPD), spricht am 05.01.1919 während des Januaraufstands zu den Berliner Bürgern.
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05.01.1919 - Armed workers occupy the newspaper district with cars and machine guns in Lindenstrasse in Berlin, Germany, during the Spartacist uprising from 5 - 12 January 1919, on 5 January 19...
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09.11.1918 - Armed revolutionary soldiers, sailors, and civilians are pictured at Unter den Linden/Friedrichstrasse in Berlin, Germany, 9 November 1918. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitgeschichte/Arc...
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10.12.1918 - A guard battalion coming home from the front are pictured marching through Brandenburg Gate at Unter den Linden in Berlin, Germany, 10 December 1918. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitgesc...
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09.11.1918 - Revolutionary sailors and civilians demonstrate on Kaiser- Franz-Josef-Platz (today: Bebelplatz) in Unter den Linden in Berlin, Germany, on 9 November 1918 - in the front a sailor...
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06.11.1918 - Revolutionary sailors are pictured after the storming of the remand prison in Königsstrasse in Wilhelmshaven, Germany, on 6 November 1918. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitgeschichte/Arch...
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01.03.1919 - The transportation strikes are pictured on Alexanderplatz in Berlin, Germany, which happend during the Märzkämpfe ("March Fights" - fights which ensued from nationwide demonstratio...
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01.03.1919 - View of destroyed houses on Alexanderplatz in Berlin, Germany, during the street fights of the Märzkämpfe ("March Fights" - fights which ensued from nationwide demonstrations of wo...
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01.03.1919 - An artillery post is pictured on Alexanderplatz in Berlin, Germany, during the street fights of the Märzkämpfe ("March Fights" - fights which ensued from nationwide demonstrations...
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01.01.1919 - German Revolution 1918/1919: Arrested spartacists are pictured in Berlin, Germany, Date unknown. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitgeschichte/Archiv
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01.11.1918 - Machine guns are pictured at Begasbrunnen (Neptunbrunnen) in front of Berlin Palace in Berlin, Germany, in 1918. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitgeschichte/Archiv
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01.01.1919 - Government troops use a tank to attack the insurgents during the street fights in the context of the Spartacist uprising in Berlin, Germany, from 5 - 12 January 1919. Photo: Fotoar...
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09.11.1918 - A worker delivers a speech from the top of an ambulance in front of the Berlin Palace in Berlin, Germany, shortly after the declaration of the republic on 9 November 1918. Photo: F...
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01.01.1919 - Government troops use a tank to fight the insurgents during the street fights in the context of the Spartacist uprising in Berlin, Germany, form 5 - 12 January 1919. Photo: Fotoarc...
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01.03.1919 - Government troops use flame throwers to attack the insurgents in Berlin, Germany, during the street fights of the Märzkämpfe ("March Fights" - fights which ensued from nationwide d...
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01.01.1919 - German Revolution 1918/1919: Scene of the street fights at a barricade in Grosse Frankfurter Strasse in Berlin, Germany. Date unknown. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitgeschichte/Archiv
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01.01.1919 - German Revolution 1918/1919: An artillery post of government troops is pictured in Frankfurter Allee in Berlin, Germany. Date unknown. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitgeschichte/Archiv
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09.11.1918 - Novemberrevolution 1918/1919: Ein Arbeiter spricht von einem Sanitätsauto vor dem Berliner Schloss zum Volk kurz nach der Erklärung der Republik am 9.11.1918. Foto: Fotoarchiv für...
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01.01.1919 - German Revolution 1918/1919: Barricades of the government troops made from newspaper bales are pictured in the newspaper district of Berlin, Germany, in early January 1919. Photo:...
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01.01.1918 - German Revolution 1918/1919: Members of the Volksmarinedivision, an armed division of sailors of the former Imperial Navy which supported the revolutionary efforts in Berlin, occup...
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01.01.1918 - German Revolution 1918/1919: Spartacists are pictured behind a barricade in Prenzlauer Strasse (today: Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse) in Berlin, Germany, during street fights. Date unkno...
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01.03.1919 - German Revolution 1918/1919: Barricades are pictured at Am Köllnischen Park in Berlin, Germany, in March 1919. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitgeschichte/Archiv
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01.01.1919 - German Revolution 1918/1919: Destruction and desolation in front of the sailor bar "Zum Schwedischen Hering" ("To the Swedish Herring") in Berlin, Germany, during the street fights...
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01.01.1919 - German Revolution 1918/1919: Negotiators with the flag of the parliament are pictured on their way to the Reich Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, during the street fights in early 19...
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01.01.1919 - German Revolution 1918/1919: Armed demonstrators occupy the newspaper district in Berlin on 5 January 1919. They are pictured at Dönhoffplatz on their way to Lindenstrasse and Zimm...
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01.11.1918 - German Revolution 1918/1919: Demonstration of restaurants' employees demanding fixed wages on Leipziger Platz in Berlin, Germany, in November 1918. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitgeschi...
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01.03.1919 - German Revolution of 1918-1919: Tanks of the government troops are pictured in Berlin, Germany, during the street fights in March 1919. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitgeschichte/Archiv
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09.11.1918 - German Revolution 1918/1919: Revolutionary sailors and soldiers are pictured on a truck at Brandeburg Gate in Berlin on 9 November 1918. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitgeschichte/Archiv
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29.12.1918 - German Revolution 1918/1919: Crowds of people participate in the funeral procession for the victims of the revolution days in Berlin in December 1918. Here: Firing salutes as the p...
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25.01.1919 - German Revolution 1918/1919: Burial of Karl Liebknecht and 31 other victims of the revolution in a mass grave on 25 January 1919. An empty coffin was put into the grave for Rosa Lu...
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20.11.1918 - German Revolution 1918/1919: Crowds of people accompany the funeral procession for the victims of the revolution days from Tempelhofer Feld through the city centre to the Friedhof...
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20.11.1918 - German Revolution 1918/1919: Crowds of people accompany the funeral procession for the victims of the revolution days through the city centre to the Friedhof der Märzgefallenen (li...
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20.11.1918 - German Revolution 1918/1919: Crowds of people participate in the funeral procession for the victims of the revolution days in Berlin on 20 November 1918. Here: the crowds are pictu...
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01.11.1918 - German Revolution 1918/1919: Crowds of people take part in the funeral procession for the victims of the revolution days in Berlin in November/December 1918. Photo: Fotoarchiv für...
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09.11.1918 - German Revolution 1918/1919: Bivouac of the guards of the workers' council at the Reichstag in Berlin after its occupation on 9 November 1918. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitgeschichte/...
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01.11.1918 - German Revolution 1918/1919: Revolutionary sailors are pictured in the Port of Hamburg in 1918. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitgeschichte/Archiv
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01.01.1919 - German Revolution 1918/1919: Government troops are pictured marching towards Lichtenberg in Berlin during the street fights in late 1918 / early 1919. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitges...
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01.01.1919 - German Revolution 1918/1919: Government troops are pictured with weapons on Wilhelmplatz in Wilhemstrasse in Berlin during the street fights in late 1918 / early 1919. Photo: Fotoa...
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01.01.1918 - German Revolution 1918/1919: Sailors of the Volksmarinedivision, an armed division of sailors of the former Imperial Navy supporting the revolutionaries, are pictured in front of t...
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01.11.1918 - German Revolution 1918/1919: Revolutionary Navy - Stoker Brigade 1918. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitgeschichte/Archiv
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01.01.1918 - German Revolution 1918/1919: Arrest of a spartacist through government soldiers in Berlin in late 1918. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitgeschichte/Archiv
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01.01.1919 - German Revolution 1918/1919: Tanks of government troops are pictured in Berlin during the street fights in late 1918 / early 1919. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitgeschichte/Archiv
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10.11.1918 - Revolutionary soldiers and workers await the results of the resolutions of the revolutionary parliament at the entrance of the Berlin Reichstag, whcih was occupied by representativ...
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09.11.1918 - A crowd of people is pictured on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin on 9 November 1918. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitgeschichte/Archiv
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10.11.1918 - German Revolution 1918/1919: A large crowd of people is pictured at the Bismarck Memorial in front of the Reichstag building in Berlin on 10 November 1918. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Ze...
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01.01.1919 - German Revolution 1918/1919: Revolutionary soldiers and workers are pictured with machine guns on a truck in Berlin in late 1918 / early 1919. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitgeschichte/...
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01.01.1919 - German Revolution 1918/1919: Government soldiers are pictured with a machine gun behind barricades made of paper bales at Rungestrasse near the Marinehaus in Berlin during the stre...
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01.01.1919 - German Revolution 1918/1919: Government troops are pictured with machine guns during the street fights in early 1919 in Berlin. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitgeschichte/Archiv
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01.03.1919 - German Revolution 1918/1919: Government soldiers build a road block with the warning sign reading "Stop! Who walks further will be shot." on the Hansabrücke in Berlin during the st...
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24.12.1918 - German Revolution 1918/1919: Georg Ledebour, member of the Vollzugsrates des Arbeiter- und Soldatenräte Groß-Berlin (Executive Board of the Workers' council of Greater Berlin), del...
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10.11.1918 - Revolutionary soldiers and workers await the results of the resolutions of the revolutionary parliament at the entrance of the Berlin Reichstag, which was occupied by representativ...
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01.01.1919 - German Revolution 1918/1919: Government troops with tanks are pictured in front of the police headquarters at Alexanderplatz in Berlin during the street fights in late 1918 / early...
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01.03.1919 - German Revolution 1918/1919: Chevaux de frise with barbed wire were positioned by government troops at Königstor near Alexanderplatz in Berlin during the street fights in March 191...
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01.01.1919 - German Revolution 1918/1919: Spartacists are pictured behind barricades in front of the newspaper publishing company Rudolf Mosse in the newspaper district in Berlin during the str...
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01.01.1919 - German Revolution 1918/1919: Tanks are pictured in Leipziger Strasse in Berlin during the street fights in early 1919. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitgeschichte/Archiv
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01.01.1919 - German Revolution 1918/1919: Barricades are pictured in front of the building of the publishing company Rudolf Mosse in Schützenstrasse in the newspaper district in Berlin during t...
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01.01.1919 - German Revolution 1918/1919: Paper bales serve as barricades near the Marinehaus at Am Köllnischen Park/Märkisches Ufer in Berlin during the street fights in early 1919. Photo: Fot...
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09.11.1918 - Reproduction from a contemporary illustrated newspaper: Demonstration of soldiers and workers at Zimmerstrasse/Wilhelmstrasse in Berlin on 9 November 1918. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Ze...
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01.01.1919 - German Revolution 1918/1919: An outpost of the government troops is pictured in the Grosse Frankfurter Strasse (today: Karl-Marx-Allee) in Berlin during the street fights in late 1...
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01.01.1919 - German Revolution 1918/1919: Retreat of demonstrating workers as they face government troops at Unter den Linden in Berlin during the general strike at the start of 1919. Photo: Fo...
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01.01.1919 - German Revolution 1918/1919: Road blocked with wire and a warning sign reading "Stop! It will be shot when moving further" in the city centre of Berlin during the street fights at...
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01.01.1919 - German Revolution 1918/1919: Street scene in Berlin during the riots in late 1918/ early 1919 - Passers-by read the special edition of the newspapers / flyers in front of a buildin...
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01.11.1918 - German Revolution 1918/1919: Revolutionary sailors of the German cruiser SMS Prinzregent Luitpold are pictured in November 1918. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitgeschichte/Archiv
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01.01.1919 - German Revolution 1918/1919: Revolutionary soldiers and workers are pictured working with a machine gun in front of a memorial in Siegesallee during the street fights in Berlin in...
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01.01.1919 - German Revolution 1918/1919: Government troops are pictured in the Grosse Frankfurter Strasse (today: Karl-Marx-Allee) in Berlin during the street fights in late 1918 / early 1919....
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09.11.1918 - German Revolutiion 1918/1919: Revolutionary sailors and civilians demonstrate on Pariser Platz in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, on 9 November 1918. Photo: Fotoarchiv für...
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01.01.1919 - German Revolution 1918/1919: The reproduction of a contemporary illustrated newspaper shows revolutionary soldiers and works with the appeal "Brothers! Do not shoot!" during the un...
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01.01.1919 - German Revolution 1918/1919: Barricades are pictured in Warschauer Strasse during the street fights in Berlin in the end of 1918 / early 1919. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitgeschichte/...
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01.01.1919 - German Revolution 1918/1919: Revolutionary sailors and workers are pictured during the street fights in Berlin in January 1919. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitgeschichte/Archiv
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01.03.1919 - German Revolution 1918/1919: The dissolution of the Volksmarinedivision, an armed division of sailors of the former Imperial Navy who supported the revolutionary efforts in Berlin...
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01.01.1919 - German Revolution 1918/1919: Transportation of wounded people during the street fights in Berlin, Germany, in late 1918 / early 1919. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitgeschichte/Archiv
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09.11.1918 - German Revolution 1918/1919: The cover page of the newspaper "Das Illustrirte Blatt" ("The Illustrated Newspaper") published on 24 November 1918 shows revolutionary sailors and sol...
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01.12.1918 - German Revolution 1918/1919: Revolutionary workers move into the Neue Marstall in Berlin in December 1918. The building served as a quarter for the Volksmarinedivision, an armed di...
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01.01.1919 - German Revolution 1918/1919: The reproduction from the Schweizer Illustrirte Zeitung (Swiss Illustrated Newspaper) published on 1 February 1919 depicts a street scene in Berlin dur...
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01.03.1919 - German Revolution 1918/1919: The reproduction from the Schweizer Illustrirte Zeitung (Swiss Illustrated Newspaper) published on 29 March 1919 depicts barricades during the riots in...
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01.12.1918 - German Revolution 1918/1919: Port security commanders and non-commissioned officers are pictured on the cruiser SMS Freya of the German Imperial Navy in the harbor of Hamburg, Germ...
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01.03.1919 - German Revolution 1918/1919: The reproduction from the Schweizer Illustrirte Zeitung (Swiss Illustrated Newspaper) published on 29 March 1919 depicts the destruction of the departm...
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09.11.1918 - German Revolution 1918/1919: Philipp Scheidemann gives a speech from a window of the Reich Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, 9 November 1918. Shortly before, he proclaimed the republ...
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01.11.1918 - German Revolution 1918/1919: Sailors are pictured in Wilhelmshaven, Germany, in early November 1918. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitgeschichte/Archiv
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01.11.1918 - German Revolution 1918/1919: Demonstration of sailors in Kiel, Germany, in early November 1918. "Population of Kiel, stay calm," is written on the posters. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Ze...
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01.11.1918 - German Revolution 1918/1919: Sailors demonstrate in front of the city hall in Hamburg, Germany, in early November 1918. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitgeschichte/Archiv
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09.11.1918 - German Revolution 1918/1919: A crowd of people is pictured in front of the Reich Chancellery at Wilhelmplatz in Berlin, Germany, during a speech of Philipp Scheidemann from the win...
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15.11.1918 - German Revolution 1918/1919: The workers' and soldiers' council, which formed itself on 14 November 1918, hoists the red flag on the city hall in Bremen, Germany, 15 November 1918....
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01.12.1918 - Novemberrevolution in Berlin 1918/1919 - Revolutionäre Matrosen der Volksmarine und revolutionäre Soldaten im Gefecht auf dem Hof des Stadtschlosses stehen auf und vor einem Panzer...
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01.12.1918 - Das Foto der Postkarte zeigt bewaffnete Revolutionäre vor dem zerstörten Mittelportal des Berliner Stadtsschlosse im Dezember 1918. Von dem Balkon dieses Portals rief Karl Liebkne...
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23.12.1918 - Das Foto der Postkarte zeigt bewaffnete Revolutionäre vor dem zerstörten Mittelportal vom Berliner Stadtsschloss im Dezember 1918. Von dem Balkon dieses Portals rief Karl Liebknec...
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10.11.1918 - Kieler Matrosenaufstand 1918 : Weimarer Republik Novemberrevolution 1918 - Matrosen auf dem Rückmarsch hinter der Roten Fahne von einer großen Demonstration in Wilhelmshaven am 10....
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13.04.2014 - Kieler Matrosenaufstand 1918 : Weimarer Republik Novemberrevolution 1918/1919 - Berlin Revolution Soldaten mit Maschinengewehr vor dem Linden-Restaurant in Berlin Mitte Foto: Samml...
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09.11.1918 - Streikende Arbeiter füllen am 09.11.1918 die Straßen von Berlin. Kurz darauf verkündete Philipp Scheidemann die Republik. [dpabilderarchiv]
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01.01.1919 - German Revolution 1918/1919: Spartacists are pictured at a barricade in front of the publishing company Mosse in Schützenstrasse in the newspaper district of Berlin, Germany, durin...
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01.01.1919 - German Revolution 1918/1919: The reproduction from the Schweizer Illustrirte Zeitung (Swiss Illustrated Newspaper) published on 1 February 1919 depicts the German politician Eugen...
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01.04.1919 - German Revolution 1918/1919: Peaceful invasion of Braunschweig by government troops in April 1919. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitgeschichte/Archiv
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01.01.1919 - German Revolution 1918/1919: Destroyed canedlabra are pictured at Karlsplatz in Munich, Germany, during the unrest in 1919. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitgeschichte/Archiv
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01.01.1919 - Captioning and transportation of insurgents in front of Zeughaus on Unter den Linden in Berlin, Germany, during the street fights in relation with the Spartacist uprising from 5 -...
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08.12.1918 - Demonstrations of the Spartacus League against an attempted conterrevolutionary coup at Pariser Platz in Berlin, Germany, on 8 December 1918. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitgeschichte/A...
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08.11.1918 - Novemberrevolution 1918/1919: Der Sozialdemokrat Philipp Scheidemann (1865-1939) ruft am 09.11.1918 in Berlin vom Westbalkon des Reichstagsgebäudes (zweites Fenster nördlich des Po...
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31.07.1919 - View of a mass demonstration in Berlin Lustgarten on the 3rd of August in 1919, organised by the Independents and the Communists against the peace terms of Versailles Treaty.
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01.03.1919 - German Revolution 1918/1919: An unexploded two-centner mine is pictured in Berlin, Germany, during the street fights of the Märzkämpfe ("March Fights" - fights which ensued from na...
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01.03.1919 - German Revolution 1918/1919: The reproduction from the Schweizer Illustrirte Zeitung (Swiss Illustrated Newspaper) published on 29 March 1919 depicts a government flamethrower troo...
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01.01.1919 - German Revolution 1918/1919: The reproduction from the Schweizer Illustrirte Zeitung (Swiss Illustrated Newspaper) published on 29 March 1919 depicts government troops patroling th...
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01.01.1919 - German Revolution 1918/1919: The reproduction from the Schweizer Illustrirte Zeitung (Swiss Illustrated Newspaper) published on 1 February 1919 depicts the building of the newspap...
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01.03.1919 - Eine Postkarte zeigt beschädigte Häuser nach den Großkampftagen der großen Märzrevolution am Alexanderplatz in Berlin, aufgenommen im März 1919. Foto: Fotoarchiv für Zeitgeschichte...
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01.03.1919 - Barricades and machine gunners are pictured in Berlin, Germany, during the street fights of the Märzkämpfe ("March Fights" - fights which ensued from nationwide demonstrations of w...
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01.01.1919 - Government troops are pictured with a machine gun in Palais des Prinzen Leopold in Wilhelmstrasse in Berlin, Germany, during the street fights in the context of the Spartacist upri...
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01.01.1919 - German Revolution 1918/1919: Machine guns are positioned in Grosse Frankfurter Strasse (today: Karl-Marx-Allee) in Berlin, Germany, during the street fights in late 1918 / early 19...
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