Very few dates bring up as many mixed emotions as November 9th. A day that, depending on which year you talk about, can represent either pain or joy, fear or hope. It's very rare that multiple important, history-defining moments of a single country take place on the same day, all within the same century, how sometimes one lead to the other and how they are all responsible for turning Germany into the country it is today. In this article, I want to go down each of these events, all taking place on November 9th, explain what they were, why they happened and what lessons we learned from them. 1918 - The Republic is proclaimed: Following the German Empire's defeat in WWI (which oficially ended two days after these events), a series of constitutional changes that weakened the monarchy and the abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II, the German Empire was dissolved, and the country was transformed from a monarchy into a parliamentary federal republic with a liberal constitution. It was also...
Hi, I'm Gaby! I'm a twenty-something grandma, world citizen, hopeless pacifist, social worker and activist. Topics I like to write about include the Consistent Life Ethic, growing up in a binational household, Liberation Theology and navigating life with a disability.