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.
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.
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.))
