SUPPLEMENT: Letting the facts speak for themselves
Otto Kilian, preface to ‘White terror in central Germany: the truth about the March battles - stenographic
report of the proceedings of the Prussian state parliament’s investigative committee over October 27-28
1921’ (translator: Ben Lewis)
When, in March, the battles between the green police [nickname for paramilitary police formations known as the ‘security police’] and the revolutionary workers broke out in central Germany, the bourgeois world was quick to denounce them as a ‘communist putsch’, as a ‘Communist Party crime’. An enormous flood of lies and slander rolled through the German press in accordance with the orders and wishes of the capitalists and their government.