- 21 Aug 2006 02:58
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Important Highlight's of the Munich Soviet Regime
We all know the story. Kurt Eisner (Kamonowsky) and his comrades overthrew the Bavarian Monarchy on November 9 1918 and replaced it with a 'Republic'. Of course the word republic should read dictatorship but you already knew that. The historian John Toland describes Eisner as “a small elderly Jew wearing a black floppy hat which, large as it was, couldn't contain a shock of wild hair. Especially untidy, he was a living cartoon of the bomb-throwing Red." Soon after, as Eisner was appointed the first Premier of Bavaria, the hilarity ensued:
Eisner’s appointed Foreign Minister was a certified lunatic. His first acts were to declare war on the Pope, and Switzerland. The reason for the declaration of war on Switzerland was that he had requested 60 locomotives from the Swiss immediately and without question! The Swiss refused. He also cabled Lenin to find out if he knew where the keys to the bathroom were located.
Ernst Toller, another lovely creature caught up with Eisner, a self-described poet, declared the Bavarian Soviet a ‘dictatorship of loveâ€. You know poets, never saying what they really mean. For example, they mudered several members of the Thule society. Interestingly enough , when the Nazis came to power Toller was arrested and shipped off to the Gestapo for some TLC. He later recalled the experience like this: "It was terrible and inhuman. The guards forced me to swallow almost a complete volume of one of my latest books".
Sadly, it was too good to last and came to an end rather quickly. Like many revolutions that come in with a bang and out with a fart this one was no exception. While the Freikorps encircled the city, Eisner's ministers were passing important, history making legislation such as declaring from now on living rooms MUST be built above bedrooms. Fascinating.
In the end and not without irony, Kurt Eisner was assassinated by Count Arco-Valley who was angry to have been rejected by the Thule society (Arco-Valley was Jewish).
We all know the story. Kurt Eisner (Kamonowsky) and his comrades overthrew the Bavarian Monarchy on November 9 1918 and replaced it with a 'Republic'. Of course the word republic should read dictatorship but you already knew that. The historian John Toland describes Eisner as “a small elderly Jew wearing a black floppy hat which, large as it was, couldn't contain a shock of wild hair. Especially untidy, he was a living cartoon of the bomb-throwing Red." Soon after, as Eisner was appointed the first Premier of Bavaria, the hilarity ensued:
Eisner’s appointed Foreign Minister was a certified lunatic. His first acts were to declare war on the Pope, and Switzerland. The reason for the declaration of war on Switzerland was that he had requested 60 locomotives from the Swiss immediately and without question! The Swiss refused. He also cabled Lenin to find out if he knew where the keys to the bathroom were located.
Ernst Toller, another lovely creature caught up with Eisner, a self-described poet, declared the Bavarian Soviet a ‘dictatorship of loveâ€. You know poets, never saying what they really mean. For example, they mudered several members of the Thule society. Interestingly enough , when the Nazis came to power Toller was arrested and shipped off to the Gestapo for some TLC. He later recalled the experience like this: "It was terrible and inhuman. The guards forced me to swallow almost a complete volume of one of my latest books".
Sadly, it was too good to last and came to an end rather quickly. Like many revolutions that come in with a bang and out with a fart this one was no exception. While the Freikorps encircled the city, Eisner's ministers were passing important, history making legislation such as declaring from now on living rooms MUST be built above bedrooms. Fascinating.
In the end and not without irony, Kurt Eisner was assassinated by Count Arco-Valley who was angry to have been rejected by the Thule society (Arco-Valley was Jewish).
Oh, workers! To let yourselves be thus deceived! - Dietrich Eckart
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