Coming hard on the heels of the supplementary agreement to Brest, the Red Terror placed the German Foreign Service in a truly invidious position. The embassy, which had moved from Moscow back to Petrograd, found itself at the centre of what one of the horrified diplomats described as a ‘St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre’. The desperate Russian bourgeoisie, many of whom looked to the Germans for protection, discovered that they had been ‘sold to the devil’ for the paltry sum of 6 billion marks.41
