"In the first months of 1919, in the wake of uprisings, soviet republics were proclaimed in Bremen, Munich and Saxony. The deployment of Freikorps troops put a

"In the first months of 1919, in the wake of uprisings, soviet republics were proclaimed in Bremen, Munich and Saxony. The deployment of Freikorps troops put a violent end to them by the beginning of May of that year at the latest." Under the direction of the SPD, as led by Frederich Ebert (still revered as the party's patron saint, basically).