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After 1945 West German historical research on the Weimar Republic concentrated most of all on its decline.
In 1955, Karl Dietrich Bracher also dealt with the German Revolution from the perspective of the failed republic.
The same can be said for Karl Dietrich Erdmann's contribution to the 8th edition of the Gebhardt Handbook for German History ( Gebhardtsches Handbuch zur Deutschen Geschichte ), whose viewpoint dominated the interpretation of the events around the German Revolution after 1945.
According to Erdmann 1918 / 19 was about the choice between " social revolution in line with forces demanding a proletarian dictatorship and parliamentary republic in line with the conservative elements like the German officer corps ".
As the majority Social Democrats were forced to join up with the old elites to prevent an imminent council dictatorship, the blame for the failure of the Weimar Republic was to be put on the extreme left.
According to this view, the events of 1918 / 19 were successful defensive actions of democracy against Bolshevism.
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