World War I History
1918 - German commander Erich Ludendorff and Paul von Hindenburg told naval chief Admiral Reinhardt Scheer that Germany's only hope to win the war was through submarine warfare.
1919 - Friedrich Ebert, provisional president of the German government, signed the Weimar Constitution into law. The act officially created the first parliamentary democracy in Germany.
| "We stand at the turning point of the war: what I expected first for the autumn, the necessity to go over to the defensive, is already on us, and in addition all the gains which we made in the spring--such as they were--have been lost again." - Crown Prince Rupprecht, July 20, 1918 |
