Blutmai 1929

Police, Parties and Proletarians in a Berlin Confrontation

Bibliographic Data

ID8958490
AuthorsChris Bowlby (Christ University, corresponding author)
Year1986
Volume29
Issue1
Pages137-158
Publication date1986-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Historical Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0018-246X • E-ISSN: 1469-5103
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0018246x00018653
OpenAlexW2155538128
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited12

In May 1929 illegal Communist demonstrations in Berlin led to several days' fighting as the Prussian police sought to restore order. Over thirty civilians were killed. Communist publications hailed events as an heroic defeat, in which lessons had been learned for the ‘final struggle’ to come; the Social Democrats hailed a decisive victory over Bolshevik aggression. Liberals expressed concern at the soverity of police action; National Socialists expressed sinister satisfaction at a significant portent of the distintegration of social and political stability. Above all, the dramatic events of Blutmai (‘Bloody May’) reinforced an element of emotional tension in Weimar and Prussian politics of great importance in understanding the final collapse of 1933

Communism · Criminology · Economic history · Element (criminal law · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Proletariat · Sociology · Victory · Central European national history · European history and politics · German History and Society · History · Law

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