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Steckrübenwinter
German history [1917]
Also known as: Turnip Winter
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World War I
- In German Empire: The political crisis of 1916–17
…remembered in Germany as the Steckrübenwinter (“turnip winter”). Ludendorff had taken over a difficult strategic situation and had to conduct a defensive war, with dispiriting results, throughout 1917. The first Russian revolution (March 1917) encouraged left-wing feeling in Germany, and on April 7 Bethmann once more promised a democratic reform…
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