Diary March 3, 1919

03-1919, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1919 / 1 minute of reading

Murder of a defenceless Reichswehr soldier by Spartacists in front of an inactive crowd in Berlin; a sign of the brutalization of the people by World War and Civil War.

World War One Diary for Monday, March 3, 1919:

Germany: More Berlin fighting kills c.1500 (until March 14), Communist-called general strike (March 3-6).
Galicia: Ukrainians bombard Lemberg.
Austria: Emperor Charles tells Lieutenant-Colonel Strutt ‘I first tried to rule autocratically, and then democratically; both were errors, but of the two the latter was the greater’.
Turkey: Damid Ferid Pasha Grand Vizier (Sultan’s brother-in-law), Τewfik Pasha resigns.
Britain: Coal Industry Commission opens. Meat prices down 2d/lb.
Italy: Last US troops sail from Genoa.
Russia: 3rd Communist International (Komintern) founded at Moscow; 8th Communist Party Conference (350,000 party members) changes emphasis to win ‘middle peasants’ νs Kolchak; party organs defined.
Baltic States: General Goltz’s 25,000 Latvian-Germans (including Freikorps Iron Division) begin advance from Libau on Riga, retake Murayeva (March 5) from Reds.

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My name is Norman 'Kretaner' and since my childhood I am interested in history and strategy games. Later, I have learned programming and the development of computer games, and finally with the Internet, also web design. I'm in the fortunate position to combine all my interests with my work and to live on a place of my choice, on Crete. All information, figures, specifications and statistics used here had been compiled from a variety of sources and the large, over decades collected, library of the author about military history, WW2 and weapons.

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