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- Author(s): Wade, Harry E.; Pelz, William A.;Wade, Harry E.; Pelz, William A.
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Salem Press Encyclopedia, 2023. 3p.
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On November 9, 1918, after massive uprisings within all major cities and two days before the armistice ending World War I was signed, Germany was proclaimed a Socialist republic by revolutionary Karl Liebknecht. In immediate response, Philipp Scheidemann, a moderate Socialist, proclaimed a non-Socialist republic to forestall these more radical designs. In this situation of often chaotic political struggle, exhausted by four years of warfare, the German Empire created in 1871 by Otto von Bismarck came to an end. William II, the last emperor of Germany, fled to Holland, where he formally renounced his throne on November 28.
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