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The Kapp-Lüttwitz putsch of 13 March 1920 was an attempted counter-revolutionarycoup d’état against the Weimar Republic, led by General Walther von Lüttwitz and the national-conservative official Wolfgang Kapp. It was supported by currently serving and former members of the Heer and Marine, in particular Freikorps units such as the Marine-Brigade Ehrhardt. It ultimately failed due to disunity and indecision among the putschists, but especially the general strike and armed workers’ resistance called for unanimously by the leaderships of the SPD, USPD, KPD, and trade unions. After the putsch, many of its members reconstituted themselves into clandestine anti-republican terrorist groups, such as the infamous Organisation Consul, which was responsible for several high-profile assassinations during the Weimar period, including Walther Rathenau and Matthias Erzberger.
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Amerongen Castle, refuge of Wilhelm II when he fled into exile.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Abraham Hayward (tr.) (London: Hutchinson, 1908), p. 41.
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Ostrowski, M.S. (2020). An Easter of Hope. In: Eduard Bernstein on the German Revolution. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27719-2_28
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