The German revolution of 1918–1919, also known as the November Revolution, brought down the German Empire at the end of World War I and set the stage for the establishment of the Weimar Republic. The
Proclamation of the republic by Philipp Scheidemann at the Reichstag building in Berlin, 9 November 1918
Erich Ludendorff in 1918. His calculated shifting of responsibility for the war's loss from the army to the civilian government gave rise to the stab-in-the-back myth.
Kiel mutiny: the soldiers' council of the battleship Prinzregent Luitpold. The sign reads in part "Long live the socialist republic."
Proclamation of the Bremen Soviet Republic outside the city hall on 15 November 1918
Freikorps
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Freikorps were German paramilitary militias formed in the aftermath of World War I and during the German Revolution of 1918–19. Freikorps units consisted primarily of demobilised soldiers, young men,
German revolution of 1918–1919
…1919 failed in its attempt to create a dictatorship of the proletariat and led to the murders of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht by members of the Freikorps. Into the spring, there were additional violently suppressed efforts to push the revolution further in the direction of a council republic, as well as…
Freikorps paramilitaries in Berlin, 1919
1919 ad for Freikorps volunteers
Minister of the Reichswehr, Gustav Noske, visits the Freikorps Hülsen in Berlin in January 1919.
Provisional Freikorps armored vehicle in Berlin during the Kapp Putsch of March 1920