Gustav Noske
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Gustav Noske was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party. He served as the first Minister of Defence of the Weimar Republic between 1919 and 1920. Noske was known for using army and paramil
Gustav Noske speaks to a crowd in January 1919
Noske and Friedrich Ebert in the infamous "bathing suit picture", 16 July 1919, Illustrirte Zeitung
Spartacist uprising
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The Spartacist uprising, also known as the January uprising or, more rarely, Bloody Week, was an armed uprising that took place in Berlin from 5–12 January 1919. It occurred in connection with the Ger
Gustav Noske
…dismissal of the head of the Berlin police, a USPD member, for supporting the sailors' revolt the preceding Christmas. The demonstration grew into the Spartacist uprising, which had the goal of replacing the national government with a council republic. After the insurgents seized Berlin's city centre and the newspaper…
Soldiers on the Brandenburg Gate during the Spartacist uprising
The Spartacus League in a show of force on Berlin's main thoroughfare, 18 December 1918
Emil Eichhorn
Eugen Ernst