Reply #117: No, they really didn't when compared to the Eastern and Western front areas.

[Raskolnik]

I know of very few historians that consider the Spartacist uprising to be a popular revolution. It was organized by a fairly small group of Communists, and it failed because it had very little popular support among Germans.

Following WWI, Germany's infrastructure was intact, its major cities were more or less untouched, and its civilian population did not witness much, if any, of the violence firsthand. The German civilian population simply did not understand that the German military had truly lost the war. National Socialists were able to feed and amplify that myth of being stabbed in the back, and the German population were more than willing to believe that were not, or even could not be, defeated. That wasn't the case after WWII.