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Revolutions that are defeated are soon forgotten. Yet of all the upheavals after the World War I, it was the events in Germany that prompted British prime minister Lloyd George to write: "The whole existing order, in its political, social and economic aspects, is questioned by the masses from one end of Europe to the other." Here was a great revolutionary upheaval in an advanced industrial society, and in Western Europe. Without an understanding of its defeat, the great barbarisms that swept Europe in the 1930s cannot be understood