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Live tweeting events from the Weimar Republic, 100 years on. #OnThisDay #Weimar100

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Charles I of Austria, the last Emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (where he was King Karoly IV), dies of respiratory failure at his home on Portugal's island of Madeira, where he has lived in exile for over a year. He was 34.
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A German court in Leipzig convicts Traugott von Jagow for his involvement in last year’s Kapp Putsch. He is one of the only people to be convicted for participation in the insurrection. He is sentenced to five years in prison.
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The last king of Bavaria, King Ludwig III, is allowed a full military funeral in Munich, Weimar Republic, despite concerns that the occasion will be used as an excuse by monarchists to call for the restoration of the German monarchy. The funeral passes peacefully.
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Transvestites in front of the Institute for Sexual Science during the first International Congress for Sex Reform, Germany.
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German Lieutenant General Karl Stenger, accused as a war criminal, leaves the Leipzig Imperial Court building during the ongoing Great War war crimes trials. His verdict is set to be read on July 7.
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Germans demonstrate in Berlin in support of retaining Upper Silesia, which is currently contested between Germany and Poland:
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Funeral of Augusta-Victoria, Consort to Kaiser Wilhelm, in Potsdam, Germany. The Kaiserin died at the age of 62 last week; her body was allowed to return to Germany, but Wilhelm was not allowed to accompany it. Many of his supporters attend the funeral and pay solemn tributes.
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Funeral of Communist leader Wilhelm Sylt in Berlin.
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Damaged buildings in Hettstedt, #Germany🇩🇪 during the ongoing March Action nationwide Communist uprising, in which leftist revolutionaries are bombing government buildings. Rioting here in Hettstedt has killed 30 people in the past two days alone.
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French tanks and soldiers ensuring order during the Upper Silesia Plebiscite:
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The first interview with the former Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany since his abdication at the end of The Great War is published worldwide by United Press, which bought the exclusive rights.
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The Black Watch marching past the saluting base in Cologne, #Germany🇩🇪 on the occasion of the recent visit of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson to the Rhine Occupational Forces.
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Deutsche Luft-Lloyd sets up a daily airmail service between Hamburg, Magdeburg, and Breslau, #Germany🇩🇪.
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German demonstrators against the high cost of living in front of the Altes Museum in Berlin:
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At #Paris, representatives of Poland and the Free City of Danzig (created for the German speakers of Poland by the Treaty of Versailles) sign an agreement recognizing the semi-autonomous state under the authority of the League of Nations, belonging to neither Poland nor Germany.
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Polish infantry heading to the front as Soviet forces approach the capital of Warsaw:
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Start line of the Hanover Grand Prix, a bicycle race in #Germany🇩🇪.
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Jul 11, 1920 - French troops standing guard, helping to oversee the plebiscite in East Prussia over whether to be part of post-war Germany or Poland #100yearsago
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Meeting at Brussels, the Allied Conference agrees upon a division of the reparation payments that will be expected from #Germany🇩🇪, with the initial 8% being allocated to Belgium; 52% to France, 22% to the United Kingdom, 5% to Serbia and 4% apiece to Italy, Japan and Portugal.
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At Boulogne, #France🇫🇷, financial experts for the Allied powers announce that Germany's Great War reparations should be fixed at 111 billion Deutschmarks (25 billion U.S. dollars), payable in gold at a minimum of three billion Deutschmarks (USD$610,000,000) per year.