| rdfs:comment | - While the middle and upper classes feared a left wing putsch, 300,000 mine workers supported the Ruhr Red Army. The strikers conquered Düsseldorf, Elberfeld, Essen and soon had control over the whole Ruhr area. On 12 April Reichswehr General Oskar von Watter banned any illegal behaviour on the part of his troops, which put an end to all battles and fights in the Ruhr area. Between 1919 and 1922 there were 35,600 political murders in Germany. [citation needed]
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| abstract | - While the middle and upper classes feared a left wing putsch, 300,000 mine workers supported the Ruhr Red Army. The strikers conquered Düsseldorf, Elberfeld, Essen and soon had control over the whole Ruhr area. After the failure of negotiations with the strikers the government sent more troops into the Ruhr area on 2 April 1920, which caused civil-war like circumstances. These government troops consisted largely of regulars, but also of Freikorps paramilitary soldiers, who finally defeated the workers' uprising and reconquered the Ruhr area. While the Free Corps lost only 250 men, the Red Ruhr Army lost over a thousand during the bitter fights. On 12 April Reichswehr General Oskar von Watter banned any illegal behaviour on the part of his troops, which put an end to all battles and fights in the Ruhr area. Between 1919 and 1922 there were 35,600 political murders in Germany. [citation needed]
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