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Witness History: WW1: Revolution in Germany

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08/11/2018 GMT

WW1: Revolution in Germany

BBC World Service - Witness History, WW1: Revolution in Germany

Eyewitness accounts of the collapse of Germany in the final weeks of war in November 1918

Eyewitness accounts of the collapse of Germany in the final weeks of the war in November 1918

After four years of war Germany was on the verge of defeat. Its armies were exhausted and in retreat, its civilian population enduring hardship and hunger. As unrest grew at home, the German government and military struggled to maintain control. The German Kaiser was forced to abdicate. Germany became a republic. Hear first-hand accounts from the BBC archive of how the disastrous end to the First World War provoked revolution in Germany. 

Photo: Revolutionaries in a truck with machine guns in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, November 1918  (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

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