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On #ThisDayInHistory in 1918, the #KielMutiny broke out, when German sailors refused orders for a futile mass sortie against the larger British fleet. This was the opening move in the #GermanRevolution that brought down the Second Reich and ultimately created the Weimar Republic.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.
#Nov3 #KielMutiny led to #Nov11 armistice as revolution beckoned
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