On March 13, 1920, a military putsch shook the one-and-a-half-year-old Weimar Republic. It was led by Gen. Walther von Lüttwitz, the commander of the Reichswehr (German army) in Berlin. During the ...
Germany’s fragile new democracy was pushed to the brink when nationalist forces marched on Berlin in 1920. The Kapp Putsch briefly overthrew the government, but a nationwide strike cut off power, food ...
The early Weimar Republic, established after the German Empire's defeat in World War I and the Kaiser's abdication, faced extreme instability and chaos as both the far left and far right rejected ...