History & The Arts
Erzberger: Negotiating the Armistice for Germany
...Centre Party politician Matthias Erzberger. His role in the Armistice negotiations and during the peace negotiations that followed made him the most hated man in the Weimar Republic. Ultimately it led to his violent death in 1921 at the hands of some of the disaffected former soldiers who were unable to make their peace with the new German Republic and who blamed...