GERMANY ~ 100 years German Revolution - Braunschweig ~

... Great postcard and cover of an important part in Germany's history... view from the past showing revolutionary workers and soldiers together... 1918, a year of great changes in Germany... the end of the First World War... the end of the imperial era... a new beginning... it is often not told that a revolution took place, which led to changes in the political situation.... these events are not very present in the collective consciousness - they are, as they say, in the "shadow of the culture of remembrance."... with special event-related cancellation on cover ...100th anniversary of the "proclamation of the republic"... Thanks a lot Dustin!!【ツ】

"Photo in Braunschweig 08 November 1918"
For centuries Braunschweig was the capital of one of the many small German States. The local monarch, Duke Ernst Augustus (17 November 1887 – 30 January 1953) was the first monarch who's abdication was already enforced on 8 November, one day earlier than in the German Reich.

Postmarked on the date of the Duke Ernst Augustus abdicated

Philipp Scheidemann, (July 26, 1865- Nov. 29, 1939), German Social Democratic politician who, without party or government authorization, on Nov. 9, 1918, made the Weimar Republic a fact by proclaiming it from the balcony of the Reichstag. He later became the republic’s first chancellor.