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CHAPTER.1
FORMIDABLE TRANSFORMATIONS
Winston Churchill described the tumultuous years between 1918 and 1933 as a period of 'formidable
transformations'. Germany, defeated in a war not of its own making, was laid prostrate by defeat,
revolution and anarchy. Communist revolutionaries eager to capitalize on their overthrow of the
Russian state seized power. A British Government White Paper estimated that the Royal Navy's
blockade on Germany "caused nearly 800,000 deaths, mainly women and children." Vast tracts of
German territory were seized as booty and claims for reparations were so draconian that they
effectively turned every German into a slave of the victors.
With the Kaiser (king) in exile, the Workers and Soldiers' Soviets and the Social Democrats
'dismissed' the legitimate Ebert government and proclaimed a Soviet Republic. Armed bands of
communists (Spartacists) led by Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebnecht, patrolled the streets. In
Bavaria, another Jew, Kurt Eisner had declared the province a Soviet Republic. Soldiers returning
from the front were massacred, revolutionaries seized state property and strikes designed to cause
maximum damage to the staggering economy were organized. Barracks and naval dockyards were
seized and street barricades divided Germany's cities and towns into politico-criminal fiefdoms.
The Saar and the Rhineland were occupied by French troops; inflation soared out of control until there
were 136,000,000 Deutsche Marks to the dollar. Decadence erupted in sleaze. Art was debased as
were the German people. Child prostitutes of both sexes could be bought openly on the streets. The
world's debased were quick to take advantage of the German nation's descent into the economic chaos
of defeat and revolutionaries fought like jackals for the territorial remains.
The Versailles Treaty; the peace terms dictated by the victor nations and notorious for its monstrously
unjust nature was heaped upon this volcanic social upheaval. "The greater part of our troubles is the
result of World War 1 and the bad treaties which ended it." - Alfonso of Bourbon and Orleans. Great
Grandson of Queen Victoria
"Germany suffered most as a consequence of this Peace Treaty and the general insecurity which was
bound to arise from it. The unemployment figures rose to a third of the number usually employed in
the nation, which means, however, that by counting the families of the unemployed as well there
were 26 million people in Germany out of a population of 65 millions faced by an absolutely hopeless
future." - Adolf Hitler
In Russia, the Bolsheviks had seized power. The geographical giant on Germany's eastern borders
was locked into civil war, the brutality of which knew no bounds. The tentacles of the emerging
internationalism of Communism were spreading like wildfire throughout Europe.
"Germany, with more than 6 million communists was on the verge of a catastrophe which none but
those wanting in common sense can possibly ignore. If red terrorism was to have swept over
Germany the western countries of Europe would probably also have realised that it is not a matter of
indifference to them whether the outposts of a destructive Asian world power stand guard on the
Rhine and on the North Sea, or whether the land is populated by peaceful German peasants and
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