What happened on a small scale within Munich city politics had fatal consequences on a larger scale. A book shows the political development in Munich in the early 1920s – in knowledgeable articles, with many contemporary quotations, caricatures and pictures.
The folk singer Weiß Ferdl wrote a couplet around 1920 in which he described the young Weimar Republic as a chaotic state full of “usurers” and “swindlers” and then – without a touch of irony – celebrating the glorious exception: “There is only one country , / where order, duty / always renew together. / And where there isn’t a pusher: / This country is our Bavaria. / Yes, we are the cell of order, / happiness is still blooming quietly here, / are Germany’s source of recovery, / they Royal Bavarian Republic.”