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1920
The peace treaty comes into action.
Workers in the city organised a general
strike. As a result, Berlin ground to a halt. No trains or buses ran. There was
no water, gas or electricity. Civil servants refused to give him money. Kapp
thus had to abandon his plans. On 18 March, he and his supporters fled to sweden
and the government returned to Berlin.
In March 1920 when 5,000 of the Free Corps
marched into Berlin. The Government fled and they succeeded to take over Berlin.
An extreme nationalist, Doctor Kapp, set himself up as head of a new government.
His aim was to recover lost land lost by the treaty of Versailles, and to
rebuild Germany's military strength. | | |
