wilkokcl Posted 23 January , 2008 Share Posted 23 January , 2008 Does anyone know of any good books on the Räterepublik: the short-lived Soviet Republic which was declared in 1919 in Munich by Communists in the chaos after the end of the War? In English or German. Many thanks, Mark (On second thoughts this should probably have gone in the "Book Reviews" section. Too late now.......!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edward J. Posted 23 January , 2008 Share Posted 23 January , 2008 Richard Grunberger. Red Rising in Bavaria. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1973. Rudolf Schricker. Rotmord über München. Berlin: "Zeitgeschichte," Verlag und Vertriebs-Gesellschaft m. b. H. They're not specifically about the Räterepublik but cover the Communist revolution and the Freikorps fight to defeat it. The German title is somewhat propagandistic, written from a protofascist point of view. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilkokcl Posted 23 January , 2008 Author Share Posted 23 January , 2008 Thanks for that - I'll see if I can track either of them down. Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred van Woerkom Posted 24 January , 2008 Share Posted 24 January , 2008 Mark, Last year was the centenary of Sebastian Haffner's birth. Haffner left Germany for England in the 30's. A very well written book about the ''German Revolution' is his Die Verratene Revolution, which he published under several titles. It is about the 'Spartacist' risings, but contains an interesting passage about the Munich Revolution. I don't know about English editions, but last year all of his works were published in Dutch. He also wrote THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS OF GERMANY IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR. Hope you can find Haffner somewhere. All the best, Fred Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred van Woerkom Posted 24 January , 2008 Share Posted 24 January , 2008 Mark, In my youthful enthusiasm I wrote in my last posting that Haffner devoted 'an interesting passage' to Bavaria in his VERRATENE REVOLUTION. In fact he devotes a whole chapter to it AND several passages in other chapters Haffner has been called 'a romantic realist' and 'a conservative with progressive ideas'. He got the pseudonym from Mozart's HAFFNER Symphony and he borrowed Sebastian(n) from Johann Debastiann Bach. A very provocative writer. His best known work is probably ANMERKUNGEN ZU HITLER. During the war he wrote for THE OBSERVER and after the war he returned to Germany. Gordon A. Craig in his GERMANY, 1866-1945 devotes several paasages to Eisner. Hope this helps. All the best, Fred Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilkokcl Posted 24 January , 2008 Author Share Posted 24 January , 2008 Thank you for the information Fred Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pratt Posted 26 January , 2008 Share Posted 26 January , 2008 links (in German) http://www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/bayern1918/ http://www.raeterepublik.de/Revolution_in_...18_und_1918.htm http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCnchner_R%C3%A4terepublik Friedhelm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank_East Posted 26 January , 2008 Share Posted 26 January , 2008 The events in Munich in the spring of 1919 can be regarded as the foundation of what was to become the Freikorps who in turn were to develop into what became known as the SS.The Freikorps which was the vanguard against the Raterepublik in Munich was the "Freikorps Oberland". The "Freikorps Oberland" was formed in April 1919 from the "Bavarian Oberland" which was one of the right wing Freikorps units which attracted men of anti republican,nationalist and anti Semitic opinion.Its march on Munich in May 1919 to topple the Republic Councils was followed by campaigns against the Communist uprisings in the Ruhr in April 1920 and engagements from May to August 1921 on the Upper Silesia border with the new Polish state. When the Allies enforced the disbanding of all defence formations in the summer of 1921,the Freikorps Oberland disbanded into new formations of the same ilk and were known as the "Bund Oberland" and the "Oberland League" with their headquarters based in Munich.In September 1923,the former organisation became part of the the "Deutscher Kampfbund"led by a certain Adolf Hitler.Several companies of the "Bund Oberland took part in the ill fated Hitler putsch of November 1923 and as a result the Bund was banned. The result was another name change of the revolutionary organisation and the Bund became the "Deutscher Schutzen und Wanderbund".(German Marksman and Hikers' League) The Munich historian Karl Alexander von Muller was around during this era but I have not been able to trace any work he may have published on these events. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilkokcl Posted 21 February , 2008 Author Share Posted 21 February , 2008 Frank, I somehow missed your reply and therefore haven't said thank you for your information until now. Many thanks for the information, Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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