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  • Ebert and the Coming of World War I: A Month from his Diary

  • D. K. Buse
  • Journal:
    International Review of Social History / Volume 13 / Issue 3 / December 1968
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    18 December 2008, pp. 430-448
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  • Ebert and the German Crisis, 1917–1920

  • D. K. Buse
  • Journal:
    Central European History / Volume 5 / Issue 3 / September 1972
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    16 December 2008, pp. 234-255
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    September 1972

  • In April 1920 Friedrich Ebert admitted to a Swedish socialist that Social Democracy had failed to create a consolidated democratic republic for Germany. The president of the Weimar Republic noted that the social divisiveness which he and his colleagues had tried to overcome had increased. Though he left it unmentioned, he knew also that socialist democracy which he had outlined as the main goal during the German Revolution of 1918–19 had not been realized. However, in explaining why the army and administration still required reforming, why the universities remained “breeding stations of reaction,” Ebert blamed solely the Treaty of Versailles. He did not acknowledge that he and his party had contributed to the legacies left for the Weimar Republic by the critical period 1917–20.