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...Philipp Scheidemann, the Social Democratic Party's deputy leader, was having a bowl of potato soup in the Reichstag dining room when he was told that the Kaiser had abdicated and that Karl Liebknecht, the left-wing firebrand, was about to proclaim Germany a Soviet republic. To head him off, Scheidemann hurried to a balcony and shouted to the crowd below: "Workers and soldiers. The cursed war is at an end. The Emperor has abdicated . . . Long live the German Republic!" That night, over a secret line from GHQ in Belgium, came a message for the Socialist leaders from...
...persons of German citizenship and confiscate their property. "What we shall take from the Jews," grinned an indiscreet Treasury official, "will be a big help in balancing the budget." Even before the Cabinet decrees passed, uniformed Prussian police pounced last week on five relatives of pouchy-eyed old Philipp Scheidemann, the Socialist who proclaimed the German Republic in 1918, served as its first Chancellor and recently fled to Czechoslovakia. On no charge whatever the five relatives were locked up in a Nazi prison camp. Refusing to reveal their names, police said their sex was "predominantly male." They will be held...
...what inflammatory bombast might he not burst when the new Reichstag convenes on Oct. 16 next? Herren Hindenburg and Briining know as well as anyone else that the German Republic was actually proclaimed "not in written but in spoken words" from a window of the Reichstag by one Philipp Scheidemann, Socialist deputy who had neither "right" to do so nor "reason" to expect success (except the shouts of the mob). What has happened once can happen again...
Vaguely he began an extemporaneous address, urging the people to be calm and ignore firebrands who wanted to proclaim a Soviet State. Gradually the magnetic fervor of the crowd fired Socialist Scheidemann. Suddenly he found himself shouting: "Long live the German Republic...
Though a roar of approval went up, Herr Scheidemann attached to it so little importance that he soon went back to his bowl of soup. He did not realize what he had done until jovial Freidrich Ebert, later first President of the Republic, rushed in flushed with indignation and exclaimed: "What have you done? I hear you have proclaimed a Republic! Don't you know you had no right to do that...