On 30 August he resigned in protest, denouncing the apologetic stance of the German government. The defenders of the Brest Treaty in Berlin were perpetrating a ‘systematic misrepresentation’ of a regime that ‘in its excesses was barely exceeded by the Jacobins’. Helfferich would not stand for the ‘ostensible treatment’ of Lenin’s regime as a government on the same footing as that of Germany. He could not be party to the effort to ‘solidarize, or at least to give the appearance of solidarizing with the regime . . .’. For the Reich’s government to condone Bolshevik violence was disastrous not
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