TODAY IN BERLIN: BLOOD IN THE STREETS

March 3

On this day in 1919 Berlin’s Workers’ Council called out the second General Strike in 1919 - this time determined to have the demands presented during the November Revolution fulfilled (nationalising the main industries, regulating the working hours, reforming the military, to name just a few of their demands), the council was not prepared to wait any longer. And so, on a grey and rainy Monday in a city shaken by unceasing political and social tremors, the last - as it turned out bloody - chapter in the conflict between competing powers began.