The first phase of the German Revolution, 1916-18

I propose more depth to the German Revolution: from 1916. All based on what facts I find in Gerwarth.

In 1916 the Kaiser Wilhelm II turned his Reich over to the generals. The generals - as we know - won the East but not in time to feed the West. There the 1918 advance stalled - then retreated.

In summer 1918 the Kaiser formalised his now-constitutional-monarch status by handing his authority to the parliament(s) except for the war effort. Of course Germany was by then only a war effort so this political move was rightly derided as a feint. During the peace negotiations, coinciding with the midterm election-cycle in the US, the emissaries were given to understand that there could be no peace with an unrepresentative regime.

That November all the principalities in the Reich rebelled against the Kaiser and his field-army; the Kaiser - then in occupied Belgium - abdicated and fled.

[SEPARATED from the armband post.]