A passionate plea to rescue the forgotten social revolution between the Kiel sailors' uprisings and the Weimar Republic! One hundred years after November 1918, people only speak of the end of the war and the collapse of the Empire. However, the November Revolution was indeed a breakthrough, a rebellion against the ruling classes. Sailors, soldiers, and workers were still armed and had had enough of the old elites. They demanded universal suffrage, socialization, the dismantling of militarism, and revolution – once and for all, now or never! Klaus Gietinger reminds us how the leadership of the SPD and the trade unions supported the war until the end and sought to maintain order through an alliance with the military. This irreconcilable division within the labor movement, however, shaped the November Revolution.