К тому моменту была развёрнута массированная антивоенная пропаганда, (+)
которую финансировало немецкое казначейство. Параллельно - забасеовки на оборонных предприятиях, когда забастовщикам выплачивалось, по некоторым данным. 1,5 марки в день.
Насчёт начала финансирования - из книги Земана: (содрано у соседей)
http://forum.vif2.ru:2003/nvk/forum/3/co/C3FECB67/746
26 MARCH 1915
Hen Frbhlich to Minister Bergen at the Foreign Ministry
A 10739 1 Berlin, 26 March 1915
Subject: Dr. Alexander Helphand-Parvus
The Deutsche Bank has sent me the transfer note for a further 500,000 marks, which I enclose herewith.
I should like to draw your attention to my letter of 20 March, in which I observed that Dr. Helphand requires a total of one million marks,1 exclusive of losses incurred in exchange, and that any such losses incurred in Copenhagen, Bucharest, and Zurich, together with any other expenses, will thus have to be borne by us.
I would therefore ask you to make the necessary transfer to the Deutsche Bank, so that I may be able to pay Dr. Helphand
this difference also. „ 0
Yours, &c.,
FROHLICH
1 Helphand submitted his memorandum on the revolution in Russia to the Foreign Ministry sometime at the beginning of March (see Appendix I). On 6 March 1915 Zimmermann wrote to Drews, the Under State Secretary of the Ministry of Interior, asking him to free Helphand from any restrictions as to travel inside Germany, usually imposed on Rxissian subjects, and to provide Helphand with a police passport which he could use for travel in the neutral countries (A 8268 in WK nc seer, volume 5). The day after, Zimmermann wrote to the State Secretary of the Imperial Treasury, asking him for 2 million marks for the support of Russian revolutionary propaganda (AS 919, WK lie seer, volume 5). This request was approved on 11 March 1915 (WK i ic seer, volume 6).
The State Secretary of the Foreign Ministry to the State Secretary of the Treasury
AS 353o Berlin, 6 July, 1915
Five million marks are required here for the promotion of revolutionary propaganda in Russia. As this sum cannot be covered out of the funds at our disposal, I would like to request Your Excellency to put it at my disposal by charging it to Article VI, Section II of the extraordinary budget. I should beextremely grateful to Your Excellency if you would inform me
what action is taken.1 T
I
1 The request was granted on 9 July. AS 3632 in WK nc seer, volume 7.
