The Ebert–Groener pact was an agreement between the Social Democrat Friedrich Ebert, at the time the Chancellor of Germany, and Wilhelm Groener, Quartermaster General of the German Army, on 10 Novembe
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The 1918 Christmas crisis was a brief battle between the socialist revolutionary Volksmarinedivision and regular German army units on 24 December 1918 during the German Revolution of 1918–19. It grew
Machine gun position of the Volksmarinedivision in front of the Neptune Fountain at the Berlin Palace, December 1918
Berlin Palace on a postcard, between 1890 and 1900
Council of the People's Deputies after 30 December 1918, when the USPD members were replaced. From left: Otto Landsberg, Philipp Scheidemann, Gustav Noske, Friedrich Ebert, Rudolf Wissell.
Otto Wels, at the time military commander of Berlin