[D66] The “Forgotten” German Revolution: A Conceptual Map

[René Oudeweg]

https://bannedthought.net/Germany/Academic/WW1-Era/TheForgottenGermanRevolution-AConceptualMap-Kets-Muldoon-2019-OCR.pdf

The German Revolution of 1918–1919 marks an important turn-
ing point in European politics, yet it remains neglected in historical
scholarship. This oversight is surprising given its significant impact 
on the history of Europe and indeed the world. The revolution led to the
end of the First World War, transformed the German Kaiserreich into a
fledgling democratic republic, and created a spiral of conflict and vio-
lence that ultimately contributed to the rise of Nazism (Jones 2016,
p. 4). The lack of popular memory of this historic event led a recent 
editor to name this political transformation of Germany the “Forgotten
Revolution” (Gallus 2010).