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Friedrich Ebert: The Weimar President Who Couldn't Save Democracy
Friedrich Ebert, Germany's first president, was a socialist saddler who became the unlikely father of the Weimar Republic. In this episode, we explore how his fateful choices — the Ebert-Groener Pact with the army, his use of Article 48 emergency powers, and his tolerance of right-wing violence — shaped Germany's fragile democracy. We cover the 1919 Spartacist uprising, the flag dispute trial that convicted him for criticizing monarchist symbols, and his exhausting battles against slander from both far left and far right. Ebert died in 1925, worn out by defending a republic that few…
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