Word: reichswehr
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...making the situation dangerous. Hamburg. Martial law was pro claimed by the Senate on account of rioting on the part of the striking shipyard workers. Fights, resulting in fatal casualties, occurred between the strikers and the police. Lubeck. Communists seized the town and forced the Senate* to retire. Reichswehr troops tried unsuccessfully to restore order. Crefeld. Several Germans wounded during demonstration in favor of Rhineland Republic. Zeitz, Saxony. Sanguinary fighting between Communists and the militia. Nine Communists were killed and 30 wounded. The casualties among the troops are unknown. Langen. Revolutionary Committee of unemployed clashed on several occasions with...
Reactionary speeches were made by Generals von Krosigk, Count von der Goltz, Baron von Plettenberg, von Pleasen, von Lincker. In the procession of magnificently bedecked guardsmen were several squads of the Reichswehr (National Defense Force) or Green Police, so called from the color of their uniform...
...documents revealed a plan to put an artillery barrage around the workmen's district in Hamburg while the Monarchists marched in and took possession. It is also alleged that the Reichswehr is in close touch with the Monarchist movement and has to a limited extent been coöperating with...
...occasion was the first military maneuvers held by the Bavarian Fascista Army, wholehearted supporters of the monarchy. All day long a bloodless battle raged around the villages of Starnberg and Oberwiensfeld just outside Munich. The men were a motley crew, some attired in civilian clothes, some in their old Reichswehr (Defence of the Realm) uniforms. But all were determined compatriots in the cause of the Vaterland. The men were equipped with revolvers and brass knuckles. The artillery was present only in imagination. The minnenwerfer (mortar) platoons were fully equipped except for the minnenwerfers. The men were supplied with slings...