to the examining commission concerned with revolutionary
occurrences in the Second Infantry Regiment.
This was my first more or less purely political activity.
Only a few weeks afterward I received orders to attend a ' course
' that was held for members of the armed forces. In it the soldier
was supposed to learn certain fundamentals of civic thinking. For
me the value of the whole affair was that I now obtained an
opportunity of fleeting a few likeminded comrades with whom I
could thoroughly discuss the situation of the moment. All of us
were more or less firmly convinced that Germany could no
longer be saved from the impending collapse by the parties of the
November crime, the Center and the Social Democracy, and that
the socalled 'bourgeoisnational' formations, even with the best
of intentions, could never repair what had happened. A whole
series of preconditions were lacking, without which such a task
simply could not succeed. The following period confirmed the
opinion we then held. Thus, in our own circle we discussed the
foundation of a new party. The basic ideas which we had in mind
were the same as those later realized in the ' German Workers'
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