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I am pleased to see the DNVP being the second largest party in the Reichstag. Of course, other parties are slightly smaller (exception being the FVP), though as competent as ever. I have great faith in our future, or at least in the future of our nation.
 
I am pleased to see the DNVP being the second largest party in the Reichstag. Of course, the, other, parties are slightly smaller, though as competent as ever. I have great faith in our future, or at least in the future of our nation.
Now, do you?
My faith is somewhat smaller due to the goddamn minority votes, which only purpose is still to deny us the ability to achieve the majority.
 
Now, do you?
My faith is somewhat smaller due to the goddamn minority votes, which only purpose is still to deny us the ability to achieve the majority.
The minority vote? Pah! Some poles and other degenerates packs of misfits... Oh I remember a time, when minorites where to to be abused, now they are being used to further the rebel cause..
 
The minority vote? Pah! Some poles and other degenerates packs of misfits... Oh I remember a time, when minorites where to to be abused, now they are being used to further the rebel cause..
I tell you, my friend, I am seriously thinking about leaving the parliamentary methods behind and assaulting the closest jewish quarter with my fellow papiermützen.
Also, would you care to join me in a march through the Kabel-Straße?
 
I tell you, my friend, I am seriously thinking about leaving the parliamentary methods behind and assaulting the closest jewish quarter with my fellow papiermützen.
Also, would you care to join me in a march through the Kabel-Straße?
Even though I support your politics and policies, the DNVP is still an Democratic party. (Though that can be debated, Damnit it is for me!) I will not abandon democracy for vigilantism. Though you should have my silent support. ((the Kabel-Straße? Oh, I feel so ignorant..))
 
The Election of 1914

With the ruling coalition having weathered recent storms, it entered 1914 confident of a renewed mandate with which to confront the arising revolutionary wave across the continent.


1914 would produce no grand shifts in German politics, with no swing for or away from any party being greater than the 25 seats lost by the DDP. Beyond this the four largest parties in Germany – the FVP, the DNVP, the SPD and the DZP all secured a roughly equal share of the Reichstag as the Populists suffered minor losses and the other three parties minor gains. Germany’s Fascist movement failed to build further on the successes of 1909 – actually suffering marginal losses, whilst the Communists, despite doubling their vote, remained isolated and insignificant. No party suffered so greatly as the DDP, having already seen losses in the previous election the Liberal could ill afford to see their vote plummet further. Yet, in spite of, or perhaps because of, another militant and aggressive electoral campaign the party fell yet further to become the second smallest party in the Reichstag and suffer the worst ever Liberal vote in German electoral history.


Although the Centre Party had displayed a customary degree of ambivalence over its openness to alternative coalition partners, it was widely expected that should the existing government achieve a majority then they would continue in office together. The gains made by the SPD and DZP offset the losses of the FVP, giving the coalition an enhanced majority as its number of seats rose from 277 to 293.


The coalition restored, Wilhelm Marx of the Centre Party was appointed as the new Chancellor by President Stegerwald, replacing Konstantin Fehrenbach who had announced his retirement due to ill health prior to the election. With the coalition government restored, and the Centre Party’s importance and influence within it rising yet further it was agreed, much to the chagrin of the Social Democrats, that no further social reforms would be sought in the coming term.
 
((http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cable_Street))
Oh, yeah, DAP is a democratic party too, of course. *wink-wink*
((I'm know it to be so. *nudge nudge*))
Oh! Fighting against jews, poles and communards? Count me in! Dawid! DAWID! Fetch my Rifle! No, not the Russian--No! Not the Brit--, the German! My hunting rifle you imbecile!

Edit: and too bad, the DZP taking the suspected route, Ah well. Maybe some, drastic change is needed. I'm sure the officer corp and the military are easily persuaded..
 
No social reforms thanks to Zentrum? As if we needed another reason for a "merger" between the two!
 
Battle of the Kabel-Straße

January 7th, 1914

It was cold, only a few degrees over zero, but the sun was shining, beautiful winter sun made the icicles hanging from the roofs of brown lower-class apartment houses glitter. The Kabel-
Straße was much quiter than usual, the masses of workers and streetsalesmen, beggars and lower class housewives fussing about with baskets and piles of clothes, they were all gone, only a
few magpies were flying and laughing in their weird tongues.
And then came the marchers, wearing brown uniforms and their famous papiermützen, marching in neat columns, following a single man on a white horse. It was their time, they knew it, every
single one of them. One of them, a young man with brown moustache, started to sing, the other joined and soon the whole Kabel-Straße sang the words of an old military song. The disciplined
formations of papiermützen were follower by their supporters and sympathizers, many of whom were belived to be in the ranks of DNVP, just showing their brotherly love. Various sources state
the number of marchers between two and five thousand men, number close to that of a military regiment.
kabelstrasse2_zps341fc448.jpg


And then the first line reached the barricade - a 2-meters high wall of furniture, trash and heavy machinery carried from a nearby paper factory. This barricade was the glorious result of
the work of a few hundred local jew and close to a thousand socialist volunteer from other parts of the city. Men on the barricades were armed with stones, wooden clubs, chairs, tire irons,
they were full of will to stop these fascist pigs, no matter what.
Man on the white horse stopped a few feet from the barricade, the papiermützen behind him quickly formed a line, voiced shouted orders, drums fell silent. And then they charged. The
battle was not a short one, witnesses claim it lasted for nearly three hours, the last hour being the fiercest, as the falling barricades were reinforced by the small, but very active
anarcho-communist movement.
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In the end, the barricades fell and the papiermützen prevailed, but the price for it was high: Around 40 people were killed on the battlefield and hundreds injured and the following pogroms
in the nearby jewish quarter claimed another 50 lives. The anti-jewish riots in the area lasted most of the day and were getting excessively more violent, until when in the late evening
hours the policemen finally managed to push the rioters out of the area.


((I'm terribly sorry about any grammar goofs I might have made, "not my first language" and blah blah blah))

((EDIT: Also, Tommy, if there's anything I should change or upgrade for endgame-story reasons, tell meh. I'm sure you have it all planned out already, don't wanna screw up your plans, is all.))
 
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Great, another propaganda coup for the KPD courtesy of those bloody fascists. :mad:
 
Battle of the Kabel-Straße

((EDIT: Also, Tommy, if there's anything I should change or upgrade for endgame-story reasons, tell meh. I'm sure you have it all planned out already, don't wanna screw up your plans, is all.))

Interestingly I got a few events in game about Fascist paramilitaries and one about a Fascist march - so might weave this into the next update as well. ;)
 
It's hard being a Jew and voting DNVP. Just...doesn't make sense.

BUT ZA KAISER DOES!
 
It's hard being a Jew and voting DNVP. Just...doesn't make sense.

BUT ZA KAISER DOES!

But! The DDP are the only jew friendly party with prominent jews in it! FVP even stated that Jews are not Germans, and look at DZP saying that Jews are heathens that need to be cleansed! This will be the end of us, and you know it. The FVP, SPD and DZP won't take the anti-jew movement seriously and the DAP and DVNP support it! Just look at the recent events..

And here we can see proof of my theory that many votes for the DVNP solely to get a Kaiser.. And since they are already democratic and moderate, I sure doubt they wouldn't mind a democratic constitutional monarchy.. Therfore an allaince between i.e the FVP and DVNP would make sense, as the FVP could chain up most of the DVNP solely because of installing a constitutional monarchy. This would let the FVP more or less do whatever they want instead of listening to two other parties all the time.
 
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