In 1918, a year after the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, Kurt Eisner, a Jew declared a free state in Bavaria. Kurt was not a fan of the Bolsheviks and seems to have been quite a decent chap. He held an election, lost it, then got murdered as he was on his way to hand in his resignation in February 1919. Then after unrest the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany started the Bavarian Soviet Republic. As a result of ludicrous incompetence it lasted six days. They were replaced by the Communist Party of Germany. This acted in the malicious way one expects of left wing thugs. On 3 May 1919 the German army [ 9,000 ] accompanied by a number of Freikorps with 30,000 went into Munich and took over.
Soon after, on 3 May 1919, what remained loyal of the German army (called the "White Guards of Capitalism" by the Communists), with a force of 9,000, and such as the Freikorps Epp and the Marinebrigade Ehrhardt, with 30,000, entered Munich and defeated the Communists after bitter street fights in which over 1,000 volunteer supporters of the government were killed. About 700 men and women were arrested and executed by the victorious Freikorps. Leviné was condemned to death for treason.
Notice that the Wiki reads as regretting the demise of Marxism & the Hard Left generally in its Aftermath. There was also a Hungarian Soviet Republic. That was a disaster too.
Bavarian Soviet Republic ex Wiki
The Bavarian Soviet Republic (German: Bayerische Räterepublik)[1][2] was the short-lived unrecognised socialist state in Bavaria during the German Revolution of 1918–19.[3][4] It took the form of a workers' council republic. Its name is variously rendered in English as the Bavarian Council Republic[5] or the Munich Soviet Republic (German: Münchner Räterepublik; the German name Räterepublik means a republic of councils or committees; council or committee is also the meaning of the Russian word soviet)[6][2] after its capital, Munich. It was established in April 1919 after the demise of Kurt Eisner's People's State of Bavaria and sought independence from the also newly proclaimed Weimar Republic. It was overthrown less than a month later by elements of the German Army and the paramilitary Freikorps.Background
The roots of the republic lay in the German Empire's defeat in the First World War and the social tensions that came to a head shortly thereafter. From this chaos erupted the German Revolution of 1918. At the end of October 1918, German sailors began a series of revolts in Kiel and other naval ports. In early November, these disturbances spread civil unrest across Germany. On 7 November 1918, the first anniversary of the Russian revolution, King Ludwig III of Bavaria fled from the Residenz Palace in Munich with his family, and Kurt Eisner, a politician[3] of the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD), became minister-president[7] of a newly proclaimed People's State of Bavaria.Though he advocated a socialist republic, Eisner distanced himself from the Russian Bolsheviks, declaring that his government would protect property rights. As the new government was unable to provide basic services, Eisner's USPD was defeated in the January 1919 election, coming in sixth place. On 21 February 1919, as he was on his way to parliament to announce his resignation, he was shot dead by the right-wing nationalist Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley...........
Aftermath
The immediate effect of the existence of the People's State of Bavaria and the Bavarian Soviet Republic was to inculcate in the Bavarian people a hatred of left-wing rule. They saw the period in which these two states existed as one of privation and shortages, censorship and restrictions on their freedoms, and general chaos and disorder. It was seen as Schreckenensherrschaft, the "rule of horror". These feelings were then constantly reinforced by right-wing propaganda not only in Bavaria, but throughout the Reich, where "Red Bavaria" was held up as an object lesson in the horrors of Socialism and Communism. In this way, the radical right was able to provoke and feed the fears of the peasants and the middle class. The separate strands of Bavarian right-wing extremism found a common enemy in the Left, and Bavaria became profoundly "reactionary, anti-Republican, [and] counter-revolutionary."[20]