""Workers and soldiers, be aware of the historical significance of this day," Scheidemann said. "Something unprecedented has happened. We have a great and immense task ahead of us. Everything for the people, everything through the people! Nothing must happen that would bring dishonor to the workers' movement. Be united, loyal, and dutiful! The old and rotten, the monarchy, has collapsed. Long live the new, long live the German Republic.""
"The young democracy in Germany had a difficult beginning. Both left- and right-wingers wanted to eliminate it immediately. And on November 9, 1923, the Nazis marched on Munich's Feldherrnhalle led by Adolf Hitler, who would take power 10 years later and bring about World War II. All Jewish people in Germany would be deprived of their rights. From 1942 onward Hitler and the Nazis would systematically exterminate them."
November 9 hosted several turning points in German history. On November 9, 1918 Philipp Scheidemann proclaimed the end of Kaiser Wilhelm II's monarchy and the start of the Weimar Republic. On November 9, 1923 Adolf Hitler led a failed coup in Munich that foreshadowed Nazi ambitions. On November 9, 1938 Nazis and antisemitic mobs burnt synagogues, plundered Jewish businesses, and murdered about 100 Jews during the November Pogroms. The date also marks the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, symbolizing German reunification and the end of the Cold War division. The date carries layered political and moral significance.
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