November 9 in German history

Before I will start to document the research process of my paper in the next weeks, I will share this link by Deutsche Welle about the paramount significance of November 9 in German history. It really is an interesting read: For example I did not know about the execution of Robert Blum in 1848, an event that in a wider sense illustrates the failed attempt of unifying Germany - something that of course only happened in 1871.
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DW: Germany marks its day of destiny

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Some days later, I stumbled across this extensive and informative article by the renowned German political scientiest Claus Leggewie. It can be seen as a continuation of the first short article by Deutsche Welle.
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Eurozine: Germany's 9/11

Considering the historiography of memory culture, this may be the most important paragraph of the article:
"The four November dates no longer have special status in historical research. In questions of the legacy of the Weimar Republic or the radicalization of the Nazi dictatorship and the collapse of the GDR, "structuralist" interpretations have come to the fore that attribute less significance to caesuras and turning points, regardless of how dramatic they may have seemed and their continuing prominence in collective memory. Structuralist approaches instead hold that no revolution in the proper sense took place in November 1918 and that the decrepit GDR did not end with a revolution. Of structural and intentional importance was rather the obdurate revisionism of the Nazi movement and the self-fulfilling prophecy of its negative November myth, which in the end would drag both its inventors and functionaries down with it.
At the same time, historians shifted their focus from the reconstruction of the November events to secondary analysis of the symbolic meaning and political and cultural function of these lieux de mémoire and commemorative anniversaries. 9 November began to be seen in relational terms and in the context of other caesuras such as 30 January 1933 and 8th May 1945."