On Oct 7, 2010, at 12:02 PM, Chuck Grimes wrote:
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> ...Strauss must have seen this in some early part of Weimar. He got
> out of the army in Nov 1918 right in the middle of the revolution
> and went back to Marburg. But this was at the same time that the SPD
> and KPD were fighting it out over control of Bavaria...
A little historical note: The Bavarian Soviet Republic was led by the Independent Social Democratic Party (USPD) headed by the martyred Kurt Eichner, and it was done in by the proto-Nazi Freikorps who went on to attack the Majority Social Democratic government in Berlin in the Kapp- Luttwitz putsch that failed thanks only to massive proletarian mobilization.
Shane Mage
This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
kindling in measures and going out in measures."
Herakleitos of Ephesos