Talk:Bavarian Soviet Republic

Hitler's participation Fringe Theory Warning

There should be a discussion related to fringe theory warning applied to this section KhoikhoiPossum (talk) 21:46, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

There has been a lot of argument (or contradiction) about the following paragraph:

          "Adolf Hitler himself acted as a liaison between his army battalion – he had been elected "deputy battalion representative" – and the Soviet's Department of Propaganda.  Both film footage and a still photograph appear to show Hitler marching in Eisner's funeral procession.  He wears both a black mourning band and a red band showing support for the Far-Left Government.  It is uncertain whether this indicated that Hitler was a true supporter of the soviet, or that he was simply taking an available opportunity not to return to his impoverished pre-war civilian life. His choice may therefore have been a tactical one, rather than one of political belief. It is also known that once the government had fallen, Hitler aligned himself with the Weimar Republic and – as part of a three-person committee assigned to investigate the behavior of his regiment's soldiers – informed on those who had shown sympathy for the Far-Left Governments."

I don't know anything about the reliability or respectability of the source cited. Can anybody help us? The editor who removes the paragraph says loudly,"Hitler was not a socialist." I agree but the party he led later on was called the National Socialist Party. It seems he wanted to attract socialists to his cause. The paragraph would tie in with this.but is it true.Spinney Hill (talk) 07:28, 22 May 2022 (UTC) .Spinisney Hill (talk) 07:30, 22 May 2022 (UTC)

The source cited is wrong. This is because Hitler was a FASCIST member of the FASCIST Nazi party and he WAS NOT a socialist. This myth persists because it benefits Republicans, Trump supporters and other fascists to discredit socialism by falsely associating Hitler with it. This is extremely dangerous and puts BIPOC people such as myself in even further danger from Fascists. The above paragraph must be removed and stay removed as it only contributes to this myth. Lending legitimacy to the idea Hitler was a socialist is no different to lending legitimacy to other fringe right wing beliefs like pizzagate and that Trump 'won' (HE DID NOT) the 2020 election.

The paragraph immediately above was not written by me so I have put my signature where it belongs. The editor above has not signed his contribution. He appears to be saying not that the source quoted is factually incorrect but morally wrong even if it is correct to use it. Please do not shout by using capitals. I am afraid I do not know what BIPOC means so I cannot comment on that. However this article is about an event which took place in Germany in the period immediately after the First World war. It certainly has an impact on German politics in the 1920s and 1930s but it is not about US politics in the 2020s. I take it the editor refers to the US Republican Party when he talks about "Republicans. " In Germany in 1919 republican meant not royal or imperialist. Spinney Hill (talk) 11:40, 23 May 2022 (UTC)

I've validated the information, and it does appear that there is documented evidence of Hitler being part of the Bavarian Soviet Republic military before the formation of the Nazi party in Germany. There isn't any statement in the paragraph claiming that Hitler was a socialist, and it is presented in a neutral point of view, even stating that he may have been involved for other reasons. It seems the other contributor's concerns are directly related political reasons rather than the validity of the information. NilokHedge (talk) 17:18, 23 May 2022 (UTC)

References

German cross-examination needed

This article seems to be heavily relying on extremely shoddy English language scholarship derived from people with obvious bias (such as uncritically and directly citing Noske) to make wildly exagerated claims (which has been widely disseminated online). While I don't speak German, a brief view of the German page translated by Google does not reproduce annecdotes like attempting to abolish the study of history. S0V3R31GNN0RT0N (talk) 13:08, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

Vague anti-semitism in the "Ernst Toller government" section

The section about the government appointments under the Ernst Toller government after a statetment saying that

"Toller's government members were not always well-chosen."

contains the passage

"(...) and – in Catholic Bavaria, where nuns ran the schools – a Jew as minister for education."

I fail to see any connection between the minister being Jewish and their unability to run/reform a Catholic run education system other than an anti-semitic bias in the article. Kubaxent (talk) 17:39, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

"Toller's government members were not always well-chosen." is the topic sentence of the second paragraph. "... and – in Catholic Bavaria, where nuns ran the schools – a Jew as minister for education." is a part of the topic sentence of the third paragraph, which begins "Other Toller appointments included: ..."

The emphasis is clearly on the fact that a Jew was chosen as the education minister despite Bavaria being majority Catholic and nuns running the state's schools. Ironically, an achievement for the Jewish people is being highlighted by the sentence you are misunderstanding as antisemitism, because you do not understand basic writing structure. Yue🌙 03:29, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

By this logic I'm sure that saying "a burglar with a conviction for moral turpitude as police president of Munich" in the same paragraph is actually passing positive judgement on burglar and highlights their achievments in being able to run a police force. Kubaxent (talk) 08:09, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

It's rude to assert Kubaxent just didn't "understand basic writing structure", especially since if you took a moment to look at the background of this article you would see it has had an extremely anti-semitic history. Bismarx (talk) 19:46, 7 August 2024 (UTC)