Soldiers with Machine Guns in Augsburg (April 1919)

The fighting in Munich between supporters of a parliamentary republic and those who wanted a councils’ republic also occurred in other Bavarian cities, where army and free corps troops likewise battled council revolutionaries. The image here, from April 1919, shows soldiers with a machine gun engaged in house-to-house fighting in the industrial city of Augsburg. Although the councils’ republic fell there after only five days, that is, after Minister President Hoffman’s government threatened to cut off food deliveries, fighting there between Reichswehr troops and the worker and soldier councils broke out on April 20 and lasted two days.

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