Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Legacy of WW1
- Kaiser (Autocrat Dictator) lost support of the armed forces (in Hanover)
- Some of the German Navy mutinied (in Kiel and Hamburg)
- Strikes, protests and refusal to work (in Stuttgart and Munich)
- British Navy blocked ports, so over 750,000 Germans died of starvation
- Early October 1918; new government formed
- Kaiser abducted in November 1918
- Two million troops died
- Over 4 million wounded
- 55% troops were casualties
- Germany in mourning
- Germany's debts trebled from 50 million marks to 150
billion marks
- Germany poverty stricken
- Germany in anarchy (disorder with no strong authority)
- Broke, starving, despairing, mourning