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Blutmai (English: Bloody May, lit.'Blood May') was an outbreak of political violence that occurred in Berlin from 1 to 3 May 1929.
It occurred when the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) held May Day marches in defiance of a ban on public gatherings in Berlin ordered by the city's police chief Karl Zörgiebel of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). The Berlin Police responded with an immediate and harsh crackdown. Often without regard to whether the persons involved were demonstrators or bystanders, they forcibly and sometimes violently dispersed the crowds that formed. As the day progressed, street battles developed between the protestors and the police, who used firearms and armoured cars. The violence lasted until the afternoon of 3 May, mostly in the working-class neighbourhoods of Wedding and Neukölln.
An estimated 33 civilians, none of whom were involved with the KPD, were killed, 200 injured, and over a thousand people taken into police custody, many of whom were also not involved in the initial KPD rallies.[1] Only 66 of those arrested were charged and 44 convicted. Ten policemen were hurt badly enough to be hospitalized, although none of them suffered from a gunshot wound. In spite of a considerable outcry in the left and liberal press, and angry scenes in the Reichstag, no action was taken against the Berlin Police.
The events of Blutmai deepened the split between the SPD and KPD, the two major left-wing parties of the Weimar Republic, making a united stand against the growing strength of far-right parties more difficult.
Blutmai (English: Bloody May, lit. 'Blood May') was an outbreak of political violence that occurred in Berlin from 1 to 3 May 1929. It occurred when the...
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down communist workers demonstrating on May Day in what became called Blutmai (Bloody May). That and the repressive legislation against the communists...
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Trotsky ally Nikolay Krestinsky). The show depicts what became known as Blutmai, violence between communist demonstrators and members of the Berlin Police...
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Küstrin Putsch German October Hamburg Uprising Beer Hall Putsch 1929-1933 Blutmai Stennes revolt Murder of Paul Anlauf and Franz Lenck Altona Bloody Sunday...
Küstrin Putsch German October Hamburg Uprising Beer Hall Putsch 1929-1933 Blutmai Stennes revolt Murder of Paul Anlauf and Franz Lenck Altona Bloody Sunday...
Küstrin Putsch German October Hamburg Uprising Beer Hall Putsch 1929-1933 Blutmai Stennes revolt Murder of Paul Anlauf and Franz Lenck Altona Bloody Sunday...
Küstrin Putsch German October Hamburg Uprising Beer Hall Putsch 1929-1933 Blutmai Stennes revolt Murder of Paul Anlauf and Franz Lenck Altona Bloody Sunday...
Küstrin Putsch German October Hamburg Uprising Beer Hall Putsch 1929-1933 Blutmai Stennes revolt Murder of Paul Anlauf and Franz Lenck Altona Bloody Sunday...
Küstrin Putsch German October Hamburg Uprising Beer Hall Putsch 1929-1933 Blutmai Stennes revolt Murder of Paul Anlauf and Franz Lenck Altona Bloody Sunday...
Küstrin Putsch German October Hamburg Uprising Beer Hall Putsch 1929-1933 Blutmai Stennes revolt Murder of Paul Anlauf and Franz Lenck Altona Bloody Sunday...
Küstrin Putsch German October Hamburg Uprising Beer Hall Putsch 1929-1933 Blutmai Stennes revolt Murder of Paul Anlauf and Franz Lenck Altona Bloody Sunday...
Litten defended participants in the 1929 May Day rally in Berlin, known as Blutmai ("Bloody May 1929"). Annual rallies on 1 May had been taking place in Berlin...
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