Content note: Front page carrying a column headed 'Sozialdemokratie und Judentum' (Social Democracy and Jewry) beside the lead on the Kapp putsch. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Deutsche Zeitung, "Ein angeblicher Militärputsch" (An alleged military putsch), morning edition, 13 March 1920
Front page of a Berlin nationalist daily dated the morning the Kapp-Lüttwitz putsch began. Its lead headline calls the events "Ein angeblicher Militärputsch" (an alleged military putsch) and the lead text treats the alarm as a misunderstanding around a visit by General von Lüttwitz to President Ebert. Beside it a column is headed "Sozialdemokratie und Judentum".
- Date
- March 13, 1920
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- Deutsche Zeitung (Berlin), nationalist daily ("unabhängiges Tageblatt für nationale Politik")
- Country
- Weimar Germany
- Medium
- Newspaper pages
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Weimar Republic
- Leader
- Gustav Bauer
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Reassure
- Event
- Kapp Putsch
- Techniques
- Euphemism / doublespeak
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, ZEFYS (Zeitungsinformationssystem), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- 1920 issue (pre-1931); SBB ZEFYS open access, Public Domain Mark 1.0
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz, ZEFYS, digitised microfilm (Deutsche Zeitung, Nr. 120, 13 March 1920). Rights statement from the library's METS record for this issue; downscaled and greyscaled for hosting.
Text on the object
Deutsche Zeitung Nr. 120. Morgenausgabe. (Ausg. A 65.) 25. Jahrgang - Berlin, Sonnabend, 13. März 1920 Ein angeblicher Militärputsch. Sozialdemokratie und Judentum. [Left column, opening:] Zu den am meisten gelesenen Schriftstellern der Sozialdemokratie gehört bekanntlich August Bebel, dessen Buch: Die Frau und der Sozialismus nicht weniger als 50 Auflagen erlebt hat. [Right column, excerpt, begins mid-sentence:] [...] anders aufgehen sollte, wie an jedem andern Tage, das Kabinett des Herrn Bauer sich einen gewaltigen Erfolg gutschreiben, und das Publikum von etwas anderem sprechen wird, als von der fatalen Angelegenheit Erzberger. [Remaining text not transcribed.]
German Newspaper No. 120. Morning edition. (Edition A 65.) 25th year - Berlin, Saturday, 13 March 1920 An alleged military putsch. Social Democracy and Jewry. [Left column, opening:] Among the most-read writers of Social Democracy is, as is well known, August Bebel, whose book Woman and Socialism has gone through no fewer than 50 editions. [Right column, excerpt, begins mid-sentence:] [...] should turn out differently from any other day, Mr Bauer's cabinet would credit itself with a tremendous success, and the public would talk of something other than the fatal Erzberger affair. [Remaining text not transcribed.]
Read from a 2400-pixel scan of digitised microfilm; masthead, two headlines and two short passages only. The right-column excerpt is partly cut by the column edge and read with some uncertainty. Translation is a machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader.
