The Hanover Congress of the

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was held between October 9–October 14, 1899, in

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(now

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). The Congress approved a resolution titled ''Attacks on the Fundamental Views and Tactics of the Party'' that formally condemned Bernsteinist attacks on the party's policy and tactics. The official report on this matter was presented by

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and was supported by the vast majority of the Congress, including Bernstein's supporters.

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explained that this support came from the resolution's inability to criticise and expose Bernsteinism: "It is debatable, from the standpoint of the interests of the German party, whether diplomacy was appropriate and whether, in this case, a bad peace is better than a good quarrel".

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also delivered a speech against Bernstein's revisionism.

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