Vorwärts

For example, the imperial railways.

This is due to the fact that the party organs, especially Vorwärts, instead of thoroughly discussing these questions, have preferred to concern themselves with the construction of the future order of society.

When, after the socialist law, the tariff question suddenly became a practical one, the most varied shades of opinion arose, and there was not a single person on the spot who possessed the proved requisite for the formation of a clear and correct judgment, knowledge of the conditions of German industry and its position on the world market.

Among the electorate, it was inevitable that tendencies in favor of protection should appear here and there, and there was a wish to take these into consideration, too.

They were armed, angry, and ready to fight.

They occupied the offices of several newspapers, including the Vorwärts, the main newspaper of the Social Democrats, which they accused of spreading anti-revolutionary propaganda.

The leaders of the KPD, including Karl Liebknecht, were caught off guard by the sheer scale of the protest.

The spontaneous anger of the working class was far greater than they had anticipated.

Yeah.

I mentioned Vorwärts for this Social Democratic newspaper, the first one Hitler banned.

The day after Hitler was appointed chancellor, you read this editorial and it says, my God, people, what have you done? I said, Hitler has told us in 780 pages exactly what he intends to do.

The interesting thing, so that's in the social democratic newspapers are going, oh my God, this guy, he's told us.

I mean, Hitler's appointed chancellor on Monday.

On Friday, he issues a ban against Vorwärts, the leading social democratic newspaper, which was calling for its constituency to fight for democracy, to fight for the election.

Hitler called it a public security threat and basically banished the newspaper.

The next day issued his first emergency decree.

And, you know, basically, Mein Kampf, it was an 800 page playbook.

roadmap, and not a lot of people were reading it at that time, but Vorwärts, the social democratic newspaper I mentioned, the day after Hitler was appointed chancellor, runs this headline saying, people, read this guy's book and look what he's telling us he's going to do.

What I used to say, maybe it's still true, is that, you know, Adolf Hitler was probably the only politician I know who who kept all of his campaign promises.

Unfortunately.

They developed citizens' councils to try to combat them.

And the citizens' councils have businessmen, professionals, and they try to raise what they call civic guards as an answer to red guards, armed agents of the few like bourgeoisie um the social democrats the spd uh ultimately believed so this is ebert's position uh that the councils would have to rel relinquish power after elections since the councils are basically self-appointed right they don't have the legitimacy of the whole um a lack of an election under universal um franchise So one SPD member explained in their newspaper, Vorwartz, remember the name of Vorwartz, because there's a lot of stuff that happens with Vorwartz, that it's not, the slogan is not all power to the Soviets, like the Bolsheviks, it's all power to the whole people.

So they want to have an election.

And that's how they'll, you know, have a legitimate