The Kapp Putsch was an attempted coup against the German government of the Weimar Republic. It was led by Wolfgang Kapp, a right-wing nationalist official, and General Walther von Luttwitz, who opposed the demobilisation of Freikorps units required by the Treaty of Versailles. Marines of the Ehrhardt Brigade marched into Berlin, and the elected government fled first to Dresden and then to Stuttgart. The regular army would not defend it, but the government called for a general strike, and workers across Germany stopped work, paralysing the capital. Without civil service cooperation, Kapp and his allies gave up after a few days. The crisis was followed by left-wing uprisings, notably in the Ruhr, which were suppressed.
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