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4 days ago · The target of the pamphlet was Matthias Erzberger of the Zentrum, whom Hellferich called "the puppet of the Jews", and called openly for his assassination to avenge his "crimes" such as signing the armistice ending World War I. Helfferich wrote that Erzberger's career was "a sordid mixing of political activity with his own pecuniary advantage ...
2 days ago · By the end of 1922 there had been nearly 400 political assassinations, the vast majority of them traceable to rightists. The victims included prominent politicians such as Matthias Erzberger, who signed the armistice of 1918, and Walther Rathenau, the foreign minister.
2 days ago · Die massive Hetze von Deutschnationalen und Antisemiten gegen Politiker wie Karl Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg, Walther Rathenau, Matthias Erzberger und Joseph Wirth förderten ein Klima, in dem ...
12 hours ago · Erzberger was also attacked for signing the armistice agreement in 1918, and Rathenau had sought to break Germany's external isolation after the First World War through the Treaty of Rapallo, which opened diplomatic relations with the new Soviet Union, renounced all war claims and mutually cancelled pre-war debts. Rathenau also attracted right-wing extremist hatred because he was a Jew.
5 days ago · Treaty of Versailles, peace document signed at the end of World War I by the Allied powers and Germany in the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles, France, on June 28, 1919; it took force on January 10, 1920. Learn more about the Treaty of Versailles here.
- The Treaty of Versailles was the primary treaty produced by the Paris Peace Conference at the end of World War I. It was signed on June 28, 1919, b...
- The chief people responsible for the Treaty of Versailles were U.S. Pres. Woodrow Wilson, French Premier Georges Clemenceau, and British Prime Mini...
- The Treaty of Versailles gave Germany new boundaries. Alsace-Lorraine was given to France and Eupen-Malmédy to Belgium. Territory in eastern German...
- Germany signed the Treaty of Versailles under protest, and the United States did not ratify the treaty. France and Britain at first tried to enforc...
3 days ago · Die massive Hetze von Deutschnationalen und Antisemiten gegen Politiker wie Karl Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg, Walther Rathenau, Matthias Erzberger und Joseph Wirth förderten ein Klima, in dem politische Morden gediehen.
6 days ago · Während Erzberger für die Unterzeichnung des Waffenstillstandsabkommens 1918 angefeindet wurde, war Rathenau als Außenminister unter anderem für die Reparationsproblematik zuständig. Er hatte zudem durch den mit der Russischen Sozialistischen Föderativen Sowjetrepublik geschlossenen Vertrag von Rapallo die äußere Isolierung Deutschlands nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg aufzubrechen gesucht.
