After the
Abdication.

How deeply do we care to delve? Digression can be intriguing or exasperating, depending on your bent of mind. Consider the Rat der Volksbeauftragten.

Rat der Volksbeauftragten translates to the Council of People's Commissioners, or the Council of People's Delegates. Based in Berlin, the council served to steady the defeated state while provisional authorities assembled the mechanisms of a republic.

Here's how historians at the German Historical Museum explain it: "Disappointment and the desire for political change led to a revolutionary movement even before the signing of the peace agreement. On November 9, 1918, Prince Max von Baden announced the abdication of the German Kaiser Wilhelm II, and put the Social Democrat Friedrich Ebert in charge of government affairs. Considering the revolutionary situation, the Rat der Volksbeauftragten (Council of People's Delegates) constituted itself the following day as a caretaker government. It consisted of three members of both the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the Independent Social Democratic Party (USPD) respectively."
 

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