Germany saw significant political violence from the fall of the Empire and the rise of the Republic through the German Revolution of 1918–1919, until the rise of the Nazi Party to power with 1933 elections and the proclamation of the Enabling Act of 1933 that fully broke down all opposition. The violence was characterised by assassinations and by confrontations between right-wing groups such as the Freikorps (sometimes in collusion with the state), and left-wing organisations such as the Communist Party of Germany.^[1]

Between 1919 and 1922, there were at least 354 politically-motivated murders by right-wing extremists, primarily Freikorps, and a minimum of 22 murders by left-wing extremists. Compared to right-wing murders, left-wing motivated murders were criminally prosecuted much more frequently and received significantly harsher sentencing (Ten executions, three life sentences, and 249 total years of imprisonment compared to one life sentence and 90 total years of imprisonment).^[2]

• German Revolution of 1918–1919 (1918-1919)
  • Kiel mutiny (1918)
  • Christmas crisis (1918)
  • Spartacist uprising (1919)
  • Berlin March Battles (1919)
• Silesian Uprisings (1919-1921)
• Reichstag Bloodbath (1920)
• Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch (1920)
• Ruhr uprising (1920)
• March Action (1921)
• Cuno strikes (1923)
• Küstrin Putsch (1923)
• German October (1923)
• Hamburg Uprising (1923)
• Beer Hall Putsch (1923)
• Blutmai (1929)
• Altona Bloody Sunday (1932)
• 1932 Prussian coup d'état (1932)
• Reichstag fire (1933)

• Adolf Hitler's rise to power
• Right-wing extremist attacks in Berlin-Neukölln

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