History & The Arts
Erzberger: Negotiating the Armistice for Germany
...system which taxed the rich and those who had profited from the war, and he also introduced an inheritance tax, all of which offended the bourgeois old elites. Conservative and right-wing politicians begun a vendetta against him. The assassination Erzberger was well aware that his life was in danger, and he survived several assassination attempts. In post-war Germany,...
