Berlin March Battles
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The Berlin March Battles of 1919, also known as Bloody Week, were the final major event of the German revolution of 1918–1919. The fighting grew out of a general strike by Berlin workers who wanted to
Revolutionaries executed by the Freikorps
Wilhelm Reinhard, commander of the Freikorps in Lichtenberg
Alleged Spartacist being searched by a soldier
The German workers' and soldiers' councils of 1918–1919 were short-lived revolutionary bodies that carried the German revolution to cities across the German Empire during the final days of World War I
The Reich Congress of Workers' and Soldiers' Councils meeting in Berlin on 16 December 1918
The soldiers' council of the battleship Prinzregent Luitpold in November 1918. The sign reads, "Soldiers' council Prinzregent Luitpold. Long live the socialist republic."
Friedrich Ebert, the SPD leader who effectively controlled the Council of the People's Deputies
The Council of the People's Deputies. From left to right: Barth, Landsberg, Ebert, Haase, Dittmann, Scheidemann