Download or read book Rural Protest in the Weimar Republic written by Jonathan Osmond and published by Springer. This book was released on 1992-12-18 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of the radical peasant trade union which thrived in parts of south and west Germany in the 1920s. The Free Peasantry, as it was known, challenged the authority of the state through food delivery strikes, a separatist putsch which ended in bloodshed.