The 9th of November is a mirror of German history. (Le Français suit dans les commentaires.) Nov. 9, 1848: Robert Blum was executed. It marked the failure of the 1848 German revolution. Nov. 9, 1918: Germany becomes a democracy with the proclamation of the Weimarer Republik. Nov. 9, 1923: Defeat of Hitler’s attempted coup. Nov. 9, 1938: Reichspogromnacht - one of the darkest days in Germanys history as Nazi Germany’s state-organized violence against Jewish citizens became systematic and deadly.