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There is no better witness for the overwhelming impression of the uprising of 9 November 1918 in Berlin than the lead articles of the Berlin newspapers on 10 November. Even the organs of the extreme right did not dare to wholeheartedly deny its political importance for reshaping Germany, but limited themselves to distorting the facts and expressing several reservations.
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The 1916 Auxiliary Services Act (Gesetz über den vaterländischen Hilfsdienst) was a German law introduced during WW1, which marked a turn towards the policy of total war required by the Hindenburg Programme. It fully oriented the German economy towards the war effort, demanding the mobilisation of all material and manpower resources required to prepare Germany for modern, industrialised warfare. In exchange for suspending free choice over workplaces, to shore up support among majority parties in the Reichstag and help stave off labour conflicts with German workers, the law provided for a system of shop-level conciliation committees, and recognised trade unions as equal negotiating partners on a par with employers.
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Ferdinand Freiligrath, ‘From the Dead to the Living’, Bayard Taylor (tr.), in Käthe Freiligrath-Krocker (ed.), Poems: From the German of Ferdinand Freiligrath (Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1871), p. 223.
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Ostrowski, M.S. (2020). The Initial Form of the German Republic. In: Eduard Bernstein on the German Revolution. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27719-2_8
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