Political violence in Germany (1918–33)

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Political violence in Germany (1918–33)
Soldiers posing with a captured revolutionary, May 1919
Date November 1918–1933 Location Germany Result Nazi Party seizes power, all opposition political parties are banned, Nazi totalitarian state established.
Belligerents
Weimar Republic Iron Front Reichsbanner Moderates	Far-left Communists Bavarian Soviet Republic Free Workers' Union of Germany Anarchists	Far-right File:Flag of the German Empire.svg Freikorps File:War Ensign of Germany 1903-1918.svg Stahlhelm Organisation Consul Nazi Party
Commanders and leaders
Friedrich Ebert Paul von Hindenburg	Rosa Luxemburg † Paul Levi Karl Radek Ernst Thälmann Kurt Eisner † Ernst Toller Gustav Landauer † Eugen Levine † Erich Mühsam	File:Flag of the German Empire.svg Erich Ludendorff File:Flag of the German Empire.svg Wolfgang Kapp File:Flag of the German Empire.svg Hermann Ehrhardt File:War Ensign of Germany 1903-1918.svg Alfred Hugenberg Adolf Hitler Ernst Röhm

Substantial political violence existed in Germany from the fall of the House of Hohenzollern and the rise of the Weimar Republic through the German Revolution of 1918–19 until the rise of the Nazi Party to power in 1933 when a Nazi totalitarian state was formed and opposition figures were arrested.

Due to unrest left from the change of government from a monarchy, based on social standing, to a democratic republic, the people of Germany turned to riots and violence. The drastic change allowed for mobility amongst the classes and new voices to be heard. Many large cities, especially Berlin, experienced political rallies which resulted in violence from opposition. The quick overturn of leaders also influenced crises in the interwar period. Ultimately the National socialists took advantage of the radical setting of Germany but leading to this there was great amounts of political violence.

• Blasius, Dirk (2008). Weimars Ende. Bürgerkrieg und Politik 1930-1933 (Paperback ed.). Frankfurt: S. Fischer Verlag. ISBN 978-3-596-17503-1. 

• Beer Hall Putsch
• German Revolution of 1918–19
• Revolutions of 1917–23

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