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The Strikes of January 1918
The events in Russia in 1917 had signaled a turning point for the German Left. The Independent Socialists (USPD) accommodated both “Centrists,” who called for an immediate end to the war as a prelude....
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Thomas Mann, "Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man" (1918)
Thomas Mann (1875-1955) wrote the essay, “Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man,” during the First World War. A riposte to....
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Labor's Vision of Collective Bargaining (March 1918)
With the passage of the Auxiliary Service Law in 1916, labor unions were allowed to organize....
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The Third Supreme Army Command and German War Aims (May 11, 1918)
During the last two years of the war, the debates on war aims and domestic political reform associated a compromise peace with the end of a semi-authoritarian constitutional system. In the eyes of....
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The First German Note to President Woodrow Wilson (October 1918)
On September 29, 1918, Erich Ludendorff (1865-1937) told the Kaiser and the civilian leadership that the war was lost, and he instructed the civilian government to negotiate an immediate armistice.....
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Hunger: Ernst Gläser, Born in 1902 (1928)
Novelist, editor, and journalist Ernst Gläser (1902-1963) spoke for a troubled generation when he wrote Born in 1902. The novel became an international bestseller soon after it was published....
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