Chapter 18 Chapter 3 "Crazy with Joy" (4)

It is impossible to understand how much and how deep Adolf Hitler's fear and hatred of the Jews was on the day Belgium was poisoned.Over the next year, however, hatred of the Jews became an openly dominant force in his life.At this time, Hitler was just one of thousands of "patriots" who developed a fear of Jews and Reds (the Jews and the Reds became almost the same).In recent months there has been a frightening rise of Marxist-inspired uprisings, threatening the very fabric of German life. Interestingly, the revolution began just as Hitler was suffering from the after effects of his poison.While he was traveling eastward in the wounded train—it was October 6—Prince Max of Baden, the new Chancellor of Germany, received a note from President Woodrow Wilson.The note demanded that the United States not sign an armistice unless Kaiser Wilhelm was abolished.This hastened the disintegration of the German military.Two weeks later, just as the fleet was being ordered to sea, the mutiny broke out openly. Six warships protested.In Kiel, when the rebellion broke out, sailors looted arsenals and short-arms cupboards and took most of the city.In a certain barracks, a cook actually established the "Kiel Sailors' Soviet"; only one ship in Hong Kong did not raise the revolutionary red flag.Soldiers grabbed officers, ripped off their epaulettes, and sent them to prison.

On November 7, another uprising broke out in Munich.The uprising was led by Kurt Eisner, a diminutive and elderly Jew.This person often wears a big black hat lazily. Although the hat is big, it can't cover his messy hair.He is disheveled and romantic, a living example of a bomb-throwing Red.He had spent nine months in prison for organizing strikes during the war.At dusk, revolutionaries, including many soldiers, had occupied all the military fortresses in Munich, and Ludwig III, who was in Whittlebach Palace, was forced to flee by car.In the south of the city, the car ran off the side of the road and turned into a potato field.It was a fitting end for the Bavarian monarchs.

That night, truck after truck of people holding red flags passed through the city with great fanfare.Eisner's men seized the railroad and government buildings.No one resisted. When the rebels set up machine guns in the Zhanjie stronghold, the police present turned their heads—turned a blind eye.The citizens of Munich woke up the next morning to find that their Bavaria had become a republic.The revolution had come, German in style, with little effort and few casualties.The people accepted their fate with one spirit and there was no violent reaction.The Munich people waited sullenly. The flames of an orderly revolution were kindled all over Germany.In Friedrichshain, workers from the Chaplin factory formed a council.Workers in the Stuttgart area, including those at the large car factory in Dammler, went on strike.Led by socialists who shared Eisnati's views, they made similar demands.In Frankfurt, sailors also staged an uprising.At Kassel the entire garrison, including a commander, rebelled without firing a single shot.In Cologne, only a few shots were fired, and the garrison with 45,000 soldiers became red elements, but order in the city was quickly restored.In Hanover, the civil rebellion was successful, although the authorities had called upon the troops to use force—soldiers joined the rebel front.It was the same in Düsseldorf, in Leipzig, in Magdeburg.

Throughout Germany governments were taken over by workers' or soldiers' councils and collapsed.Then, on November 9, the Kaiser announced his abdication and state power fell into the hands of moderate socialists, whose leader was the former saddlemaker Friedrich Elbert.This was the end of the Germanic Empire, announced on January 18, 1871 in the "Hall of Mirrors" of the Palace of Versailles in France, by King William I of Prussia, grandfather of Wilhelm II, as Germany's first emperor. This event also marks the end of an era.As early as 48 years ago, Bismarck realized his dream, unified Germany, and established a new image for Germany and Germans.Overnight, the foundations upon which the security of the Junkers (landlords) and big industrialists in East Prussia depended collapsed; overnight, with the landing of the Reich flag, the political foundations upon which the patriotic and conservative life of the majority of Germans depended Philosophy also fell apart.

Perhaps the biggest shock to the Germans was that Ebert ascended the throne of Chancellor.In just one day, the rule of the Hohenzollern family was wiped out, and a member of the common people was given the right to call the shots.How could this happen?After ascending the throne, Albert himself was on pins and needles.He understood that his appearance was an insult to the people fostered by imperialism.Plus, he doesn't even represent the radical ideas of the street.In fact, who does he represent?In the evening, when Prince Mex came to say goodbye, he panicked and begged him to stay in Berlin and act as an "administrator" on behalf of the Hohenzollern dynasty.

Two days later, at 5 a.m., a representative of the Elbert regime, Matthias Ellsberg, signed an armistice with the Allies in Marshal Foch's private carriage, which ceased hostilities at 11 a.m.At 11 o'clock on November 11 of that year, he brought peace to a shattered nation, but at the same time, he innocently created the myth of the so-called "November Criminal"-the so-called It was the socialists who betrayed the nation.Of course, it was the Kaiser and German imperialist generals who lost the war, but President Wilson refused to sign an armistice with them, insisting on dealing with the democrats.By forcing socialists to take responsibility for consequences they had not brought about, Wilson gave Adolf Hitler a political tool that he could wield with enormous destructive force.