Berlin march 23 1920: Wolfgang Kapp and Walther von Lüttwitz rally thier faollowers for the Putsch on Berlin. Members of Reichswehr, as well as nationalist and monarchist factions are present to support the Putch
we are going to overthrow the Weimar Republic, and establish an autocratic government in its place
`WE were stapped in the back by the govermnet
In the six days of crisis, it had retained the backing of the people of Berlin and had effectively withstood a major threat from the extreme right. The National Assembly was dissolved in April. the date of the general election for the first republican Reichstag was brought forward to 6 June . All attempts to change the method of election for the presidency of the Republic were abandoned.[9] In the Reichstag elections of 6 June, the number of votes cast for the SPD and the Democratic Party fell by more than half, compared to the January 1919 elections, while the extreme right-wing (DNVP) and the extreme left-wing USPD gained substantially.
ok, but we don't really like or support your goverment
you gut in the army are free to arange your own affairs
after a few days, when large sections of the German population joined a general strike called by the government. Most civil servants refused to cooperate with Kapp and his allies. with enormous success and received massive support from the working class. The majority unions, sympathetic to the government dominated by social democrats, joined the call for a strike on the same day.
we keep this up we will paralyze the counrty and the Kapp Putcsh will have no support