🚨IMPORTANT 🚨: I am intending to recreate this video in the nearish future. Having written my undergrad dissertation on the 1918 German Revolution and become very familiar with the literature on the time period in the process, I now see a lot wrong with this video. I made this video when I was 16 and followed the GCSE history textbook to its word when writing it, and did not have the knowledge at the time to unpick where it was vastly oversimplifying or subtly offering a specific interpretation of events. Perhaps the most glaring problem with the video is that the current historical consensus is that it's disingenuous to refer to this uprising as 'Spartacist' as they were much more actors swept up in events, rather than actually having any real control over them (hence 'Spartacist' is now written in quote marks in the title). Despite its problems, being written from the GCSE textbook, it's completely sufficient for GCSE study. I don't want to take away free resources from GCSE students, so this video will remain public until I have published the replacement version of this video. 🚨(Basic) CORRECTIONS 🚨: ➤ The pie chart at 0:13 should have 'other' at 15 and not 20% (that way it'll add up correctly, oops) Spotted a mistake in the video? If you think you’ve spotted a mistake, leave a polite comment saying what you think is wrong and linking a legitimate source. I’ll check and if you’re right then I’ll add the correction to this pinned comment. :) ✘ I do not engage with corrections comments which are written rudely ✘ If you leave an essay full of corrections, I won’t check it because I only have 24 hours in my day
I was predicted 4s and 5s from year 9 to year 11 and got a 5 in my mock gcses. I ended up getting a 7 in my real exam and I really thank you because I would never have been able to understand the content and structure without your videos. THANK YOU!
Brilliant work! I really needed this, considering I'm mugging up everything I can for the Germany depth study 20 markers in my exam (which is taking place in exactly 3 hours, R.I.P me)
The reason is that this video was hidden on restricted mode and I was attempting to reverse this as it's likely that references to violence in the metadata are what caused it. I know that many schools use my videos and schools are generally users of TH-cam's restricted mode, so I was trying to free the videos up for their use again.
@@Alonglongtimeago Yeah I'm a teacher and am going to use it on lesson its a really good vid. Just was curious about the text. It seems a bit silly. Algorithms need to be fixed
“Order prevails in Berlin!” You foolish lackeys! Your “order” is built on sand. Tomorrow the revolution will “rise up again, clashing its weapons,” and to your horror it will proclaim with trumpets blazing: I was, I am, I shall be! - Rosa Luxemburg, on her last article
A long, long time ago... what advice would you give me as i'm in year 10 and struggling with history, i'm not sure how i'm supposed to start an introduction
You didn't explain that the friekorps were Germanys first step towards fascism. They were the precursors to the nazi brown shirts. This shows that from the beginning Germany was willing to work with and use the fascists if it meant stopping leftists and democracy. Also Luxemburg was actually against the ussr for their authoritarianism and she was a hardcore supporter for democracy. This is important because this was not a ussr style marxistleninist vangaurd revolt.
they were willing to work with the fascists because they didn't have a choice. i assume you know that the army was too small. i don't think there was any other way as far as I know. and yes I am late so apologies and I dont expect a reply from you.
By the looks of things, a man named Friedrich Ebert decided to sack the chancellor (forgot his name sorry) which led to a public scandal. This supposed chancellor was very know and welcomed with the public so when he received the news about being sacked, this resulted in protests of roughly 100,000 workers marching the streets. Due to the treaty of Versailles in 1919 the German army has already been reduced to 100,000 men leaving many unemployed. Due to the lack of army Ebert the president of Germany had to rethink a new plan to fend off the protestors resulting in him creating his own military of disbanded jobless ex military soldiers, also known as the freikorps. These freikorps where ordered to clear the streets of protestors and end this scandal of the uprising. This uprising also known by the Spartacus uprising originated from the both leaders (Rosa Luxembourg and Carl) who wanted to take over the government with the workers. Unfortunately for them, their plan of raiding news HQ's completely failed. The freikorps killed both Rosa and Carl ending this attempted uprising.
That's because he was both! During the revolution he was chancellor, then from February 1919 until his death in 1925 he was president. Hope that helps :)
He was ahhhhhh (*is annoyed with self for not proofreading script well enough*). Not sure how this video has been up for 2 years and you're the first person to spot this but thank you for pointing it out. I'll stick a correction in a pinned comment :)
The use of the Freikorps for interior purposes by our democratic government was a necessary evil. Because of the Versailles treaty they couldn't use the regular Reichswehr and the police force was to weak to deal with an uprising. But without the Freikorps intervention the first Republic would have failed in its first year. Although 1920 the Freikorps themselves tried to putsch, in 1919 no one other was there to defend the legitimate government.
@@Alonglongtimeago Right. As a convinced Republican I do think that the democratically elected government of the Weimar Republic was the only legitimate institution with a monopoly on the use of force (in German we call it "Gewaltmonopol des Staates"). So they had the constitutional right to use armed forces to protect the state. And the Freikorps were the only force with enough power to deal with that threat.
Wish you had mentioned that Freikorps were the precursor to the Nazis. And that you didn't keep the smiles on the faces of your drawings when they're being murdered in cold blood. And that you'd put emphasis on the fact that the moderate government had blood of innocents on their hands. But I like the cute drawings, tho. And you have a talent for explaining things clearly and simply.
With hindsight, I'd have done all those things, but at the time I had less than 100 subs (no idea that this video would ever gain any traction, or realisation of the responsibilities of having an online platform), and I don't think I'd even finished studying the Weimar & Nazi Germany topic at school (so there was a lot of stuff that I just didn't know making the video). Pleased you liked the drawings tho :)
🚨IMPORTANT 🚨:
I am intending to recreate this video in the nearish future. Having written my undergrad dissertation on the 1918 German Revolution and become very familiar with the literature on the time period in the process, I now see a lot wrong with this video. I made this video when I was 16 and followed the GCSE history textbook to its word when writing it, and did not have the knowledge at the time to unpick where it was vastly oversimplifying or subtly offering a specific interpretation of events.
Perhaps the most glaring problem with the video is that the current historical consensus is that it's disingenuous to refer to this uprising as 'Spartacist' as they were much more actors swept up in events, rather than actually having any real control over them (hence 'Spartacist' is now written in quote marks in the title).
Despite its problems, being written from the GCSE textbook, it's completely sufficient for GCSE study. I don't want to take away free resources from GCSE students, so this video will remain public until I have published the replacement version of this video.
🚨(Basic) CORRECTIONS 🚨:
➤ The pie chart at 0:13 should have 'other' at 15 and not 20% (that way it'll add up correctly, oops)
Spotted a mistake in the video?
If you think you’ve spotted a mistake, leave a polite comment saying what you think is wrong and linking a legitimate source. I’ll check and if you’re right then I’ll add the correction to this pinned comment. :)
✘ I do not engage with corrections comments which are written rudely
✘ If you leave an essay full of corrections, I won’t check it because I only have 24 hours in my day
true, Ebert was president at that time. But I think her vids are great😊
Chancellor was correct. He was chancellor before he was president because the presidency didn't even exist at that point.
do you videos work even if im doing AQA history
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Me :)
This helped alot, I missed the lesson my class studied this topic. Thanks for the quick summary!
Always good to hear that a video of mine has helped someone! :)
I was predicted 4s and 5s from year 9 to year 11 and got a 5 in my mock gcses. I ended up getting a 7 in my real exam and I really thank you because I would never have been able to understand the content and structure without your videos. THANK YOU!
Really well explained, thank you! :)
Pleased you found it helpful! :)
I got my GCSE tomorrow. This helped a lot!
Same good luck!!!
I have mocks exams in 5 minutes, shit really helped me out. Thanks
I'm a GCSE history teacher and I endorse this video 👍
we watched this in history today and its so helpful : D ty
“You’re Breathtaking!”
-Spartacist Speechgiver during the revolt
Kaiser vs reference
Watching this whilst we are all in isolation. This has helped a lot and great summary!
Pleased you liked the video! :)
We watched this in history! You really helped
Thanks! That's what I like to hear!! :)
You literally saved my grades thankyou so much!
at 0.13 the percentages do not add up to 100
I can't believe I didn't notice that! 'Other' should in fact be 15% not 20%, then (hopefully) it should all add up correctly! 😎
Wow! what a great video really helped me summarise this topic.
Awesome video, really helped me with my essay!!
You're an angel, I can't stop thanking you!
thanks a million .
you really helped.
aww :) Pleased I could help!
your videos are very helpful! thank you very much!
Brilliant work! I really needed this, considering I'm mugging up everything I can for the Germany depth study 20 markers in my exam (which is taking place in exactly 3 hours, R.I.P me)
Pleased you found it helpful! Hope your exam went well!! :)
That adds up to 105 precent
Congratulations on being only the 2nd, of the 17 000 people who've watched this video, to have noticed this fact!
Cheers for the help. When my teacher told me to write 150 words on this I had no idea what it was. Very helpfull
Pleased you found the video helpful!! :)
Corona work! Loved the informative video!
100th comment BTW :)
100th comment, I challenge you to be 99th next time! Also, pleased you liked the video!
really nice video!
Thank you :)
Still revising, these are actually rlly helpful 💀💀
Why on the captions any word like gun or rifle is stated as "ommitted word"?
The reason is that this video was hidden on restricted mode and I was attempting to reverse this as it's likely that references to violence in the metadata are what caused it. I know that many schools use my videos and schools are generally users of TH-cam's restricted mode, so I was trying to free the videos up for their use again.
@@Alonglongtimeago Yeah I'm a teacher and am going to use it on lesson its a really good vid. Just was curious about the text. It seems a bit silly. Algorithms need to be fixed
Thanks a lot for this, its really helpful for my humanities task!
Awesome! Pleased you found it helpful :)
Predicted a 2 for my history but trying to get to a 5, this helps so much-
i missed a history lesson. TY so much helped alot :)
I just started my GCSE topics and I'm binging these vids cuz History is actually interesting and here I get to look at pictures too. It's a win-win
“Order prevails in Berlin!” You foolish lackeys! Your “order” is built on sand. Tomorrow the revolution will “rise up again, clashing its weapons,” and to your horror it will proclaim with trumpets blazing: I was, I am, I shall be!
- Rosa Luxemburg, on her last article
I think that aptly demonstrates her passion for her cause
1:18 I thought Ebert was the president not chancellor?
A long, long time ago... what advice would you give me as i'm in year 10 and struggling with history, i'm not sure how i'm supposed to start an introduction
I've covered how to do an introduction in my video on how to answer a 16 mark question, so I'd recommend checking that out first! :)
whats that i have one word to sum the this video up? ("Great") that's what i say this video is great keep it up!!
Aww thank you, pleased you liked the video! :)
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hi george comley, thank you for watching the videos
i'm a big fan of you from Viet Nam your videos helped me lot in Finland tks again
You didn't explain that the friekorps were Germanys first step towards fascism. They were the precursors to the nazi brown shirts. This shows that from the beginning Germany was willing to work with and use the fascists if it meant stopping leftists and democracy.
Also Luxemburg was actually against the ussr for their authoritarianism and she was a hardcore supporter for democracy. This is important because this was not a ussr style marxistleninist vangaurd revolt.
they were willing to work with the fascists because they didn't have a choice. i assume you know that the army was too small. i don't think there was any other way as far as I know. and yes I am late so apologies and I dont expect a reply from you.
I have an exam tomorrow
Gonna fail 😭😭😭😭😭
No you're not. You're going to do super well because I say so.
I really don’t understand this and I have a exam question to do this about so help please 😊🧐
By the looks of things, a man named Friedrich Ebert decided to sack the chancellor (forgot his name sorry) which led to a public scandal. This supposed chancellor was very know and welcomed with the public so when he received the news about being sacked, this resulted in protests of roughly 100,000 workers marching the streets. Due to the treaty of Versailles in 1919 the German army has already been reduced to 100,000 men leaving many unemployed. Due to the lack of army Ebert the president of Germany had to rethink a new plan to fend off the protestors resulting in him creating his own military of disbanded jobless ex military soldiers, also known as the freikorps. These freikorps where ordered to clear the streets of protestors and end this scandal of the uprising. This uprising also known by the Spartacus uprising originated from the both leaders (Rosa Luxembourg and Carl) who wanted to take over the government with the workers. Unfortunately for them, their plan of raiding news HQ's completely failed. The freikorps killed both Rosa and Carl ending this attempted uprising.
Im doing gcses now and your videos are used in schools to teach
I have a Weimar Test tomorrow thank god I found this video 😊
I need help on why were they a threat to the Weimar Republic
The communists were trying to overthrow the Weimar Republic, so they presented a threat to it. :)
the percentages don't add up to 100% ?
see the pinned corrections comment
Its the thing from hoi4!!!
first sights of the swastika are on the helmets of the freikorps. not by accident...
hi u said chancelllor ebert but in a previous video i thought he was president can someone help/ ty
That's because he was both! During the revolution he was chancellor, then from February 1919 until his death in 1925 he was president. Hope that helps :)
thank u so much i just did my mock and ur vids helped me so much :)@@Alonglongtimeago
History teach put this on in lesson for us so I’ve found it now sir
exam in 1hr…
i swear sparticist is that guy from lazy town
Sportacus lol. The name is a pun on sport and Spartacus tbf
Who came here after lead school homework
Whos here from history
thanks :)
Happy to help :)
i thought ebert was the president
He was ahhhhhh (*is annoyed with self for not proofreading script well enough*). Not sure how this video has been up for 2 years and you're the first person to spot this but thank you for pointing it out. I'll stick a correction in a pinned comment :)
Ty
You don’t say the p and the s in friekorps
As in I personally?
A long, long time ago... I’m saying it’s pronounced “Fry core”
The use of the Freikorps for interior purposes by our democratic government was a necessary evil. Because of the Versailles treaty they couldn't use the regular Reichswehr and the police force was to weak to deal with an uprising. But without the Freikorps intervention the first Republic would have failed in its first year. Although 1920 the Freikorps themselves tried to putsch, in 1919 no one other was there to defend the legitimate government.
I think "necessary evil" for the government is quite a good way to look at it.
That argument is null and void if the first republic was a failure and if the revolutionaries were correct, both of which are true
@@Alonglongtimeago when put like this yes.
@@Alonglongtimeago Right. As a convinced Republican I do think that the democratically elected government of the Weimar Republic was the only legitimate institution with a monopoly on the use of force (in German we call it "Gewaltmonopol des Staates"). So they had the constitutional right to use armed forces to protect the state. And the Freikorps were the only force with enough power to deal with that threat.
@@Alonglongtimeago Yeah, I see. But I'm fine with it. It's just a different view on how democracy and state government should work.
Wish you had mentioned that Freikorps were the precursor to the Nazis. And that you didn't keep the smiles on the faces of your drawings when they're being murdered in cold blood. And that you'd put emphasis on the fact that the moderate government had blood of innocents on their hands.
But I like the cute drawings, tho. And you have a talent for explaining things clearly and simply.
With hindsight, I'd have done all those things, but at the time I had less than 100 subs (no idea that this video would ever gain any traction, or realisation of the responsibilities of having an online platform), and I don't think I'd even finished studying the Weimar & Nazi Germany topic at school (so there was a lot of stuff that I just didn't know making the video).
Pleased you liked the drawings tho :)
@@Alonglongtimeago Thanks for replying! I didn't realize your channel was so small at the time. We all learn as we go.
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I was looking for this my class watched it in history it really helped