Submarine losses shake sailors' morale—Independent Socialists' propaganda—Admiral von Cappelle admits serious mutiny at Wilhelmshafen—Haase, Dittmann and Vogtherr denounced—Lenine passes through Germany—Russian Bolshevist propaganda in Germany—Treaty of Brest-Litovsk throws down the bars—Activities of the Bolshevist Ambassador Joffe—Haase, Cohn and other Independent Socialists work with him—Joffe expelled from Germany—Allied propaganda helps weaken German morale at home and on the fronts—Atrocity stories.
Chapter VII. Germany Requests an Armistice. [107]
Chancellor Michaelis resigns and is succeeded by Count Hertling—Empire honeycombed with sedition—Count Lichnowsky's memoirs—Another Chancellor crisis—Socialists consent to enter a coalition government—Bulgaria surrenders—Hertling admits desperateness of situation—The German front begins to disintegrate—Prince Max of Baden becomes Chancellor, with the Socialist Philip Scheidemann as a cabinet member—Max requests an armistice—Lansing's reply.
Chapter VIII. The Last Days of Imperial Germany. [121]
Reforms come too late—The Independent Socialists attack the government—Liebknecht released from prison and defies the authorities—The Kaiser makes sweeping surrenders of powers—Austria-Hungary's defection—Revolution in Vienna—Socialists demand the Kaiser's abdication—The new cabinet promises parliamentary reforms.
Chapter IX. A Revolt Which Became a Revolution. [133]
Mutiny at Kiel—Troops fire on mutinous sailors—Demands of the mutineers granted—Noske arrives—The red flag replaces the imperial standard—Prince Henry's flight—Independent Socialists and Spartacans seize their opportunity—Soviets erected throughout Northwestern Germany—Official cowardice at Swinemünde—Noske becomes Governor of Kiel.
Chapter X. The Revolution Reaches Berlin. [147]
Lansing announces that the allied governments accept Wilson's fourteen points with one reservation—Max appeals to the people—Hamburg revolutionaries reach Berlin—Government troops brought to the capital—Independent Socialists meet in the Reichstag building—The revolution spreads—Majority Socialists join hands with the revolutionaries—Supposedly loyal troops mutiny—Revolution.
Chapter XI. The Kaiser Abdicates. [159]