German Leaders Beg Kaiser to Seek Peace. Fear of Communist Revolution in Berlin; Support for Wilson’s Peace Growing Special to The Great War Project.
(22 October) In the first week of October one hundred years ago, the domestic political situation inside Germany and the military situation for Germany all along the Western Front were both unraveling.
“On October 1st,” writes historian Martin Gilbert, “the British Expeditionary Force prepared to break through the final obstacles of the German lines on the Western Front.”
“The German army,” declares its top military commander “is infected with Spartacist, that is communist and socialist ideas.” Gilbert reports, and soldiers on leave at home were certainly prey to political agitation of the most extreme sort.
Source: CRITICAL SITUATION FOR GERMANY | The Great War Project
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