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@@TimeGhost If the ideas are so evil, why not let them stand on their own merit. Surely people have enough agency without daddy censor to keep them in line.
you just told one side of the story which was the entrepreneur´s side where many of them made a big buck by paying low wages which wasn´t enough to feed a family which leads to the flipside where the vast majority of the people in Germany was simply starving on a daily basis in those roaring twenties...and after the black friday things got even worse and went down south and those circumstances led to the rise of the Nazis...and at those political ralleys of the Nazis at first they fed the people followed by their speeches and the people cheered because their stomachs were filled for the very first time since a long time.
I'm 15 seconds into this video, and I'm already hooked. Here's why 1) He gets right in. No "click the bell subscribe blah blah." He doesn't waste our time. He doesn't even introduce himself. He figures (correctly) that if we like how he teaches, we'll take the time to figure out who he is: 2) He uses no overt political jargon that gives away his political bent. He clearly wants to teach, not indoctrinate. He delves right into his topic and doesn't do some useless "in this video, I'll cover. . " Yes, well, if we like the video, we'll find out what he covers, won't we? So he simply starts teaching. This is the hallmark of a confident teacher who actually has something to say. 3) His backdrop. It is interesting enough to be engaging, but not distracting. He uses the Art-Deco theme of the era he's covering (as well as his clothing) to demonstrate that he knows a little bit about what he's talking about. 4) He's speaking diction and speed are spot-on: Not too fast so we can't follow, but not so slow that we start looking at our watches. OK, so, really, I have no idea if I agree with his points, or his outlook, but if he was a prof. at college, I'd fight to be able to petition his classes.
@@djaaliprandi7210 What if I were to tell you, you can still like/be friends with people even though they have different political identities/beliefs than you?
@@brandtlucasbrandt not regarding Trump. A person who would vote for and encourage a candidate who says "Mexicans are rapists and murderers," who makes fun of the disabled, who says Africa is full of sh*thole countries, and says that people who march under the Swastika are "good people," is not a person I want to be friends with. Now, supporters of Bush, Jr. for example, were different. Plenty of people had somewhat logical reasons (though I believe wrong), for supporting Bush's invasion of Iraq. But to support Trump is to support the worst kind of person, pure and simple, end of discussion.
It's a little misleading that you don't start with the French invasion of Germany in 1923. We tend to overlook this in the West. It had a massive impact on Germany.
They don't want to talk about that, or the Polish attacks on native Germans because it destroys the "nothing is wrong" narrative they are trying to sell. This "lecture" was pure propaganda from the usury suspects.
I guess it was a bit like Sadam not allowing unrestricted weapon inspections though, the totalitarian regime could have cooperated rather than provoking a conflict. But I didn't know about that invasion so thanks for expanding my knowledge.
I remember well, a conversation with a man in the late 1970', from Bavaria, who as a child was poor and starving. He was willing to overlook many of Hitler's atrocities, because he still considered him a savior from starvation.
An acquaintance who'd been an AFS exchange student in Austria in the early '70s told a friend of mine a similar story; viz. the host family grandparents had voted because of food. So it's utterly ridiculous to suggest that the Treaty of Versailles, that kept Most of Germany starving in the '20s & later, wasn't a Major factor in the rise of the national SOCIALISTS.
He sounds like an idiot considering that WWII led tens of millions (including millions of Germans) to starve. Crediting Hitler with saving Germany from starvation sounds like a pitiful justification for supporting a mad man.
@@lotstolearn5350 They were no more Socialist, than Suddam's Republican Guard were GOP you moron. They adopted the name to leverage the popularity of Socialism. Kinda like how conservatives in the US call themselves Christian, while their policies and agenda are the antithesis of the teachings of Jesus.
When I was stationed in Bavaria in the mid 90s, one could still see the divide between the very conservative rural and the very liberal urban areas. And frequently, these areas were very close to one another. I was stationed in Vilseck, which is only a 25-30 minute train ride from Nürnberg and the cultural divide was marked.
AFD and die linke ? Inheritors of the nazis ideas and mindset on one side, and the direct descendant of the communist party on the other. Unites in their hatred of slavs, southern europeans and the french. And all wanting to dominate europe. It's kinda scary. Since when you look closely, germany is not that democratic, the behavior of Merkel and the mindset of germans looks like imperial prussia. They have no problem with freedom of speech and the press being curtailed massively and the state persecuting people that don't agree with what it promulgates.
@@akiraraiku True, but every comment I've ever read I can't understand how she keeps getting back into office? They say treason (+) but...?? What Gives? Oh that's right, they are selected, NOT elected {that's just the illusion sold to us, hold on wait WE actually pay for this charade. Have a great day. God bless y'all 🙏❤️ 🙏
Such a shame that the interwar period in school was such a blitzover, I love the information presented and density of what happened in between, so much to learn!
IMO the period 1914-1945 is the most exciting time in the history of the entire world. I've spent my life (I'm 69) studying it and still find new things out all the time.
@Fabian Kirchgessner Not to mention the chapters that could actually teach people a few things about how a proper democracy works. Sure it is anyones democratic right to strip all controlmechanisms from their government, but don't be offended when I point you to certain similarities with a certain period...
Though it`s not as simple as depicted here. It`s true that the Nazis agitated and demonstrated against what they viewed as a harmful development (or used it for their own goals), the same is true for German Communists. Actually Nazis just adopted the rhetoric of the radical left. They even sometimes worked together against the democratic government of Weimar-Germany... www.spiegel.de/spiegel/spiegelspecialgeschichte/d-55573688.html
I'm skimming through a book again that I have read several times. It's called "Germany Tried Democracy, 1918 to 1933". Copyright 1946 by S William Halperin. Some amazing similarities to present days. There show be a documentary or even a movie.
You dont control the money you lend. That is a huge HUGE misconception .. money lenders NEED to lend to survive ... they cant pick and choose their customers just like any other business. Govts NEED people to buy govt bonds. Both sides have just as much control over the other. Its just people who borrow dont work together. But when you start to think of them as a group .. as in the MARKET .. you realize they control the money lenders completely as its the market that controls the stocks the shares and the vaue of bonds and indeed the money lenders. The borrower is not slave to the money lender at all.. the money lender is slave to the market they are BOTH slaves in the relationship.
@thefinstasis do you think basic human needs are naturally part of this 'market'? What changes when the seller owns, and manages, along with their 'competitors', the majority share of that market of basic human needs? (Food, housing, clean water...)
Both sides are propped up, the left was brought out and given space to incite the right. Out of that war the political elite who ENGINEERED IT, reaped the benefits, likewise, the current state of affairs in the world today are planned out. Just look into Albert Pike and the plan for 3 world wars. It's not hidden, it's not tucked away or forbidden knowledge. They told everyone their plans. Seek Jesus, the next 10 years are going to be absolutely brutal if this thing is going as fast as i expect it is.
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Hi there. Forget college this should be taught in highschool so people will not do stupid stuff and get in trouble. The earlier the better. Stay safe out there. Take care and God bless.
If this were so, you should be surprised at the little amount of time spent on speaking on the social decay at that time. Gay bars, crossdressers, and even the first sex-change surgery were all characteristics of this time in Germany, and it is what lead to much of the Nazis message; Germany has spiraled down into Hell.
And the financial crisis this time will make 1929 look like a very minor economic disruption. The US stock market is already overvalued by more than 200%.
@@brokenrecord3523This video is a half ass version of the history. The PERVERSION GOING on Hamburg and BERLIN GERMANY makes San Francisco look like a church compared to Berlin GERMANY in the 1920'S. You need to watch the other RUclips videos on here from 1920'S Berlin and your see the hidden facts this guy didn't show. Because facts Matter!
@@boofmcgoof1534 Nukes make it more likely that we'll at least have communication between nations and not mobilisation of war machines between economies that are though wounded still heavyweights.
You want to hear how it feels in Germany right now? The rise of our right wing party Afd (I would call them outright fascist) is staggering. There was a right wing motivated murder of a politician and an attack on a Jewish church (fortunately that somewhat failed) just this year. Poland is dismantling it's democracy. Italy has voted for a right wing party and the United States don't seem to be in the best shape either ...the list goes on I think it's scary. I am properly scared.
My grandmother was an American visiting Germany in the early 20s. She met and married my grandfather in 1923. They continued to live in Berlin for a year or two before her family encouraged her to bring her new husband to America. Part of their concern was the German economy and part of it was concern over govenrment stability and the rise of Nazism. It proved to be a wise decision.
@@kaczynskis5721 As a native born and raised American citizen, my grandmother was not subject to our immigration laws. As her husband, my grandfather was "grandfathered" in. In 1937, when they returned to Germany with my young father to advise other family members to emigrate immediately, the situation had worsened greatly. Most did get out, but just barely, and entry into the USA took quite a while.
You must have Jewish heritage then. It was great for everyone else (pre war) who no longer wanted to be exploited by a zionist banking cabal squeezing them from both sides with communism/capitalism used as tools for subversion of a people.
Both sides are propped up, the left was brought out and given space to incite the right. Out of that war the political elite who ENGINEERED IT, reaped the benefits, likewise, the current state of affairs in the world today are planned out. Just look into Albert Pike and the plan for 3 world wars. It's not hidden, it's not tucked away or forbidden knowledge. They told everyone their plans. Seek Jesus, the next 10 years are going to be absolutely brutal if this thing is going as fast as i expect it is...
I dunno. The previous, pre-ww1 era was already also called the gilded age. I am sure if you scratch ANY economy in any period hard enough you will find some amount of latent issues. It's not so much about macroeconomics as it is globalisation and fiscal conservation in my estimation.
@nikolai bahtin that is my nightmare. Getting caught in that collapse without any source of income. Not to mention the stormy Politics. It's scary to think about when that powder keg will burst.
@@newcreationinchrist1423 I think class struggles are always present in a capitalistic society, so the added cultural split does not help. The divide is a fight for the steering wheel of the nation. The effects would be similar.
This was an eye opener for sure. My view of the German situation in the 1920's is forever changed and improved in understanding. It makes so much sense now.
Sadly in the 1970's even the 90's many were still scratching their heads over how so called normal Germans became so radicalized, and could look the other way while young Jewish German mothers out walking with their child could be brutalized in the street by the police and unarmed elderly neighbors carted away to camps at gun point, while the Romani gypsies and LGBT Germans were already in the jails and camps.
Good to see someone speaking some truth instead of parroting what we were taught about WW2. I'm no denier but there are way too many lies about this era, what came out of it, and for what ends. I appreciate your honesty
As I sit here, two years later than most of the other comments here, I can say that there are many, many similar things going on today that run parallel with the events spoke about in this video. It's so many that it makes one wonder who continues to push these actions, even while knowing the outcome. The unsettling thing is, that the Weimar period wasn't the first time these things were tried either. The outcome will be the same again I'm afraid. We shouldn't be so quick to judge the actions of people in the past, especially when we do not fully understand the things that brought them to their places in history.
Yes. It was deliberate policy then it is deliberate policy now. Except this time every Central bank is printing money and mega mega amounts. There is only one outcome. War.
Describing anything involving Weimar as a golden era is really too rich. If there was no weimar and there was no attempt to bankrupt the Germans there would be no Nazis: that's a fact.
In fact there was no attempt to bankrupt the Germans. Yes, the peace agreements was harsh for Germany, but it was ink on the paper. The rise of the Hitler' power was happily welcome on the West as a protect against spread Comunism and Soviets. They ignored nations of the Central Europe in their role agains two totalitarians.
@@atam3977 saying why America was happy something happened isn't the same as saying why said event happened. It was ink on paper enforced by an international alliance that could essentially sanction their economy and enforce that with the tip of a gun. Peace implies war.
@@Noone-mo4dr In the first few years, yes. Later, the Western elites turned a blind eye to what the Germans were doing. According to their principle: 'Germany is too big to fail'. Today, part of the elite thinks similarly, enforcing 'peace for our times': the Russian empire is too big to fail because it will lead to a series of great catastrophes. But if the Russian empire does not pay for the war of aggression, it will continue to detail Europe for the next decades.
The biggest Allied mistake with the Versaille Treaty was allowing the Germans to keep their cool-looking helmets. If they were forced to wear Tommypots instead, Hitler couldn't have recruited like he did.
About a month ago I saw a guy riding down the highway on a motorcycle wearing a stahlhelm. Not sure if he was making some kind of statement, but he sure did look tough.
That really cleared up some misconceptions I had. It always seems like people want to simplify explanations of historical events. The problem is most things are not that simple.
How tragically true, and how unfortunate that if you try to explain the complex situations leading to the outcome, you can often watch the eyes glaze over as they tune you out.
@Burning City You don't even understand what "history" means, do you? I won't bother explaining anything as it is rather obvious you have already made up your mind to twist things into an anti-American thing, when America wasn't even mentioned in my comment.
Quite true, for example in the 1928 elections the Nazi party got 2,6%, in 1930 a mere two years later they got 18% and in 1932 in two quick consecutive elections twice they got more than 30%. So what happened in between? Well it's complicated, like you point out.
@@shinybald36 , totalitarianism, in any form is bad. On top of that, the only real difference between fascism and communism is how they get the power. Oh sure, fascism had racism thrown in, it's not like the Communists have anything against Jews or the people of the Urals, or the Turks or...
The bit about places outside the big cities reminds me of a lot of major European states today including my own (Britain) where rural areas and smaller towns and cities have been neglected to fuel big businesses in our capitals an/or large cities. Hopefully the balance can be restored unlike the 1920's and 30's.
@@chucklindenberg1093 Disappointing. Some small progress has been made with “levelling up funds” and the like, but key infrastructure projects meant to help the North for example such as HS2 either being scaled back or delayed has annoyed many.
@@cobbler9113 Interesting and truthfully I am not surprised by your response. I am not conspiracy theorist, but I have questions.... Why is it that every time progressive leftists/right wing(aka those politicians who believe progress results from government) identify a problem; that problem never seems to get solved? Personally I would think that the west's reaction to Covid would be an enormouse red pill moment for a lot more people than it has currently. Especially since some significant portion of Covid alarmists were willing to "otherize" those of us that dared disagree with their alarmist narrative.
Don’t forget how influential Edward Bernays was in this “consumeristic boom’. He was even involved in The Treaty of Versailles at the end of WW1. Quite the ‘interesting’ man and I would argue dangerous!
The experience of hyperinflation would encourage consumerism. If your cash savings could be wiped out by the actions of the government, that provides incentive to turn it into goods which might still have value if the currency loses its value again and at very least, you can use in the meantime. That also encourages taking on debt, as a currency collapse effectively wipes out your debt. Unfortunately, the coming collapse will be deflationary, which has the opposite effects.
During the inflation in Germany people sometimes survived as a result of windfalls. For example, a journalist found gold-plated dentures in his attic, and was able to live well from the proceeds for several weeks.
i wouldn't use the word encourage, it does more force people to spend their money as fast as possible, running into the next shop to buy everything they can.
My grandfather's cousin bred working horses for farmers, and like most people was using cash for only taxes, but bartering for everything else. BTW the "wheel barrow for a loaf of bread" is because the baker needed fire lighter to light his ovens.... [Seriously, 100,000 Mark bills printed on news paper on one side were used to light the baker's ovens....
Well having lived in a country that has a weak currency, I can say that this is true, you either spend it or more often what I see people do is convert it to a stable foreign currency like the dollar. Most people don't hold onto their savings for more than five years without turning it into property or cars or some hard good or foreign currency.
Prices will rise harder than people can consume. Maybe in the short term stores will get empty but then they need stuff from china to refill the stores.
I know right price changing in the time it took to order and get a meal literally losing purchasing power of your paycheck before you can even cash a check, wonder if he thinks that Zimbabwe was a stable market as well.
I really enjoy these snippets of history that is often not stressed in schools (at least in the USA). I am a history aficionado, but only as a dilettante. Your videos fill in the gap with details I never really understood before. Thank you so much for your efforts!
Google g.preperata conjuring Hitler you will find a free ebook txt. Excellent research sources. Fills in alot of questions and actual mechanics and players. Ie Lord Montague chairman of Bank of England 1920-46 was the chief architect of the events described here. Written with a heavy emphasis on Jewish sources so good understanding of how this conspiracy shaped or didn't shape up.
He hides that the communists were constantly revolting to crush the Weimar Republic. " There were golden years" exclusively for the Superrich people of Berlin, for artists, for Jewish filmmakers, for homosexuals and so on. But the majority of Germans lived in poverty. What a dishonest propaganda video.
Yeah, not so much, buddy. Difficult to fill gaps when he mentions Nazis railing against the "liberalized" and Americanized style of clothing their women are wearing, and somehow forgets to mention that during those same times, as with any nation riddled by poverty, Berlin becomes the hedonistic capital of the world, with prostitution the hands down largest employer of the female population. Also , quite ignorant to try to explain Germany turning to Fascism, without mentiuoning the main reason Fascism was created in the first place. To fight off Communist subversion of nations. Even Churchill had praised it's efficacy in this matter before WW2.
@@mira460 Strongly agree. This gentleman has zero idea of the global _finances_ of the day, about America and Great Britain's stranglehold on gold and finance. Any country that wanted loans had to abide by its bankers' whims, such as cut socially progressive programs and infrastructure that benefitted the general population, i.e. _austerity_ . All surplus generated by the working class went back into repaying loans. The sole beneficiaries were the managerial classes (yeah, those who dined and danced and partied) who disciplined the workers and sent profits back to their bankers. Of course folks went to the movies in droves--cheap and pure escapist entertainment where one could take the entire family, unlike bars, casinos and bordellos. The socialists, communists and nazis picked up on the discontent and grievances of the working classes and the rest is history. What a superficial analysis... Michael Hudson and Aaron Good videos may prove illuminating to those who want to understand _real_ history. Be well.
Because anything but the official narrative is banned. A bit like Communist regimes. People need to look outside yo*tube for any balanced debate. All's this channel will allow on important subjects are the lies of Politicians the MSM and who funds them.
Thank you for the amazing graphic showing the circle of debt between the US, and Europe. I've known about it for several years. Y'all showed it perfectly. Now I can show it to people; instead of just trying to draw it on paper. Thank you.
I think the reason for calling it gold plated was a play on the term golden, which was used to describe the times. Gilded might be technically correct but wouldn't have the same play on words attached to it.
oldesertguy actually there was a time in the US called the “gilded age”, the term was coined by Mark Twain for between 1865-1895 so it’s an accepted term.
So rare to see really well done videos on RUclips! The lighting and set are excellent. The narrator knows his script,is well informed and even dressed in period clothing! Good job all around!
My grandfather who was around at the time and in his twenties told me a more educated view of the hyper inflation. It was caused by the German government it's self. By suffering through a massive devaluation of their currency they made the reparations forced on them by the Allies more or less worthless. Those in Germany with physical assets or property were largely unaffected. Debts disappeared since they were valued in pre inflation numbers. Land owners and industrialist still owned their land, factories, material stock piles and machinery. Workers still had to be paid values that could feed them. After the painful period much of the financial penalties of Versailles had been blunted. After which the Germans kept largely to the military limitations. Which can be thought of as more economically advantageous. France and Britain continued to expend themselves on their military and navy. Maginot, battleship and carrier development. As well as expanded colonial commitments. He went further to say that West Germany's resurgence after WW2 was based on the economic direction they had been forced into after WW1. Britain and Prance the WW1 winners had never had their ruling elites removed by the Weimar Republic and the Nazis. For 70 years German industry has been dominated by businesses run by people with technical scientific backgrounds in those actual industries. Not the sons of the wealthy installed on top. Something that never happened in Britain which is dominated by a hereditary wealthy elite obsessed with financial and political power. Instead of the basis of economic success, industrial activity. Germany was forced to change by two defeats, the decimation of inherited wealth and turning it's back on military adventures. Things that France struggled to do and Britain has refused to do. We should have learned a lot. Hereditary financial elites, racist far right militarists and oppressive communist regimes have all failed to deliver on their claims. As in fact has completely unrestrained free market capitalism which only leads to the three previous failures.
@@tothem1997 National socialism as an event in just one single country is absolutely no benchmark to measure with. Is success is measured by a ballot paper with one name on it and a club at your head, then I'm not so sure if that is ameasure of success either. You're wrong with the assumption of race elimination as the cause, that was mere by-product. It was the simple matter of steeping outside the German pen that was the cause. Had he taken just Austia and possibly the Sudetenland territory, they might have got away with it, but Poland was one step too far. And rules are rules and the Germans understand rules only too well. I would cite Venezuela as a current example of where national socialism did not succeed. It's not actually about percentage of votes, but really more about running a country properly. They can call it whatever they like but failure is failure in anybody' book.
This is as close to the truth as I've seen in these comments. It's interesting how this guy separates the "Golden Era" of the cities from the suffering that those who lived in the country went through as if they were separate events - they occurred at the time! The Weimar gov't was gridlocked and incompetent and their currency policy caused them to be on thin ice. And calling the uprisings as 'far right' is simply false. Many of the German people at the time were highly nationalistic to begin with, and they viewed the extravagant living of people in the city as an affront. It also didn't help that the city culture took opportunities to talk down to and insult the rural population. The Nazis essentially started out as just another socialist 'revolutionary' party among many already incubating in Germany at the time - they promoted themselves as champions of the working people.
Well the far right militarists failed so hard that they got elected with 98% of votes. And that the whole international financial heeeditary elites of every major country made their people go to war against them.
You can also see the influence of the Neue Sachlichkeit in german literature. Remarque's books have this simple style that fits perfectly to this kind of art
@@wordup897 I asked a former British WW2 aircraft mechanic who his hero was after WW 2'. He said the farmer who donated some land to have a soccer pitch to play on the weekends. The local pub put showers in the basement .In today's world of Canada and the US the thought police would stop freedom of assembly.
Not sure I agree, Indie: "The government printed more and more money" - when the German Reserve Bank was privately owned in a system similar to what we have today. "Political stability" meant 21 governments in 19 years. "Stabilised economy" - when German would have become a failed state by 1934.
I remember meeting a German lady that was a child during this time. She talked of having to take wheel barrels of money to simply buy bread with due to the insanely high inflation.
There's political instability and there's Political Instability. Having numerous governments come right after another does not necessarily mean the entire political system is being compromised-the same happened in Italy during their post-war boom. As long as no major forces threaten the regime, we can talk of some seblance of stability, especially in comparison to the previous situation.
Who's morals are we to judge by? Who can you claim is pure of heart? certainly not most who follow corrupt and unnatural spirituality of Abrahamic religions.
I must admit that for awhile when I was younger I believed in the myth that the Reparations brought about the rise of the Nazi's. It was only later when I came to the conclusion that it was not really the case. Especially now that fantastic channels like this one inform me otherwise a d debunk these myths.
@@adonizi I thaught they never had the majority. they had around 30% max and took over power in parlement. But i am shure there will be a video about this with the correct facts.
The Nazi Party was actually one of many radical parties until 1930. The financial crisis and the following depression are the main reasons for the rise of the nazis. They finally had an example of "how the jewish capitalism is destroying germany".
You do realize that the loans were bc of the reparations, the treaty helped rhe nazis a lot, bc it held the country down. I mean he does not even mention the lost land and other restrictions that contributed to the destabilization of the weimar republic. This video is way to shortsighted in its look at the versail treaty and how it effected the population of germany.
The films of the Weimar Republic were some of the best being made in the world at that time. The money issues of UFA (due in part to Fritz Lang almost bankrupting it with Metropolis) aside, the films made in Germany were far superior to those made in the rest of Europe. It was just hard to compete with Chaplin and Pickford as far as ticket sales are concerned.
battra92 Thank you for your Comment . I am having to deal with learning this with some Mild Research that I am Doing Now . At 6:15 a.m I was outside Lulu's former apartment building . This video was Timely .
Thanks guys, I really learn a lot from this series. More than with the ww2 series actually. This video again shows that events are not caused by a single push. It is many small occurrences that pushes a society in a certain direction (not one dimensional, but multi-multi dimensional). And then a choice must be made.... But the thing is, only a few has enough knowledge or information to make a choice (and you cannot blame them; well most of them).
"The New Woman" was very potent in Weimar Cinema and by extension in people's minds. Check out "Der blaue Engel," "Metropolis," "Pandora's Box" as some famous examples.
Many men and more conservative women reacted against this, and the Nazis made "children, kitchen, church" their slogan expressing their attitude to women.
Thank you for an informative perspective on the era between the wars and some insight into the frailty & turmoil under the Weimar Republic. Subscribed.
@@JG-tt4sz 23 or 24 I think. My parents are long gone. I just remember the story my Dad told. I met Lena once, 1965? She was real old and I was real young. Thanks for asking
She Bought a Farm here. Ran it by herself. In the Crash of 29, my Granddad lost it all, Greedy was gonna get Rich in the Stock market. The family Moved in with Tante Lena. Where my Dad grew up. She passed away in the early 70s
@@randyherbrechtsmeier4796 Classic depression story. People worked together back then to overcome adversity. My Great Granfather (Belgian immigrant) lost an apartment building when bank called the loan. Three generations of family had to move in together. Im absolutely fascinated with the riches to rags stories of the 1920s. It motivates me not to get extravagant, but to live a frugal and prudent life. Thanks for sharing.
I feel like these economic booms have a tendency to leave out farmers and rural populations. Although I guess they had their moment in like 3000 BC to be fair.
@@snakerstran9101 As opposed to south American farmers who cannot afford to buy their own crops. Or the factory workers who will never own the cars they build, or the electronic device you are using that is a product of modern day slavery.
I have spoken to farmers in the USA that mentioned there was a boom actually in the 70's and 80's. Some Farmers were millionaires even. That seems to have died out though. Most modern US farmers only really survive because of government subsidy.
1:18 No, Germany was not in an economic boom in 1928, but rather was experiencing economic instability. loans dried up, stock market has been declining over a year, margins were falling, foreign debt increased and the standard of living was plummeting. Saved you 16 min, go read David lirving.
Very interesting. I have always wondered about the Weimar Republic's failure to govern. (The rise & fall of Weimar sounds eerily familiar to our modern times.) Thanks for providing new insights for me. Thanks.
There is an old phrase in Germany about the Weimar republic: "Back in the old days, if somebody left a basket of money out, you take the basket, because that has value" It's sad, hyperinflation, very sad.
Watching this episode was a bit of a shock for me!! A lot of what I thought I understood and commonly accepted is questioned here. Most of what is said I knew, but I did not realise how much German living standards had recovered after the WW1, the dicotomy between urban and rural, progressive and conservative, the impact of American culture and that German indiustry was very much in the process of modernisation. Take all of this into account, I think I need to review and increase my knowledge of Germany between the wars. GREAT STYLE. I LIKE IT!!!!
@T Austin This video and it’s presenter has an agenda and is presenting propaganda. I do hope you understand that. To simply listen to what he has to say about this period, and blindly accept that as definitive truth is folly. Most of what is presented here is skewered, selective, and omitting of many many realities of the time.
@@zexal4217 I'm going to agree that this video is presented in a manner which is skewered, selective, and omitting many of the realities of the time. This said, I believe it's wise to view any presentation of history in the same manner. On top of that I'll view the presentation with my own rose glasses. Finally, no matter how matter how much I learn of a topic I'll never know all there is to know.
Not just you. If Time Ghost ever manages to cover post WW2 reconstruction, it'll be a good thing. My history classes had cram sessions for the 50s through the 90s by the end of the year and we simply didn't have time to get through the nitty gritty before term exams. I still remember my nightmares from thinking I missed the alarm for the mandatory arrival period. Being locked out of a building even in your dreams is a horrifying experience.
There is nothing new under the sun..... History, does repeat itself. Especially since history is not tought in schools the way it needs to be. (Making it personal. Showing how the individual and their family got where they are.)
Especially the part where he says that if the USA's economy crashes so does Germany's economy. But today, it's more like over half the world's economy will crash if the USA will.
Europe has tried hard to find truth without God for many generations, reasoning truth from rationale (rational reasoning), to imperialism (science as the ultimate arbiter of everything), to existentialism (experiences as the final test of truth), and now postmodernism, which discards everything and says there are no truths, no meaning, and no certainty. Europe was the seedbed for all of these even though they spread throughout the west. A large enough economic or power play crisis could cause a cascade of biblical proportions.
I already wrote that under the first Video of this Series, but you guys are really doing an amazing Work. Not only is your Quality unbeleavibly high, you are also managing to teach History on a Niveau that comes close to what you learn in the First Years of University, you are also doing this in a way that is thrilling and entertaining to watch. The Between two Wars Series is also my favoourite Series so far, because it is not so War focused. Thumbs up, i am really Grateful that i can Enjoy History on that Level of Quality for Free. Thanks!!!
It's interesting how contrary the great, happy, fast music of the Twenties -that often included a whole orchestra of skilled musicians of the Twenties is compared to the actual situation of most people. And today most people in the West are doing well, but most of the popular music is horrible, slow paced and sad scrap, in which somebody manages to push two different piano keys in the background.
Under the Weimar system the German President was largely a figurehead. The President's only real card to play was that he could appoint the Chancellor, who was the real head of the government.
Great presentation of complex facts and situations. I'm the son of teachers, so I know it's difficult to touch on everything in fifteen minutes. Look forward to checking out your other videos on that time period. Thanks for your efforts..
Closed captioning substituted the word "conservativism" for the word reactionism used in the actual talk. These are actually two different things. Reactionism being an extreme type of conservatism in which progress is pushed backwards quite a bit.
Great video. One more point, about that war debt. According to James F. Dunnigan and Albert A. Nofi in Dirty Little Secrets of World War II (Harper Collins, 1996), Germany spent about as much in the four years of the Great War, adjusted for inflation, as the United States, far and away the world’s largest economic power at the time, would later spend in ten years in Vietnam. And they borrowed it from their own population. Making those repayments couldn’t have been much easier than making the reparations payments, particularly as they accounted for a larger proportion of German’s war debt.
You, my friend, earned a Like, comment, and subscribe, with this video, AND I've hit the bell icon! Great video, to the point with compelling content, great footage, great delivery, and no begging. This is RUclips the way it should be.
As a German, I really appreciate your work. Thank you for the depth and breadth of analysis, as the perfect storm begins brewing. Hopefully, will also serve as a warning for today. US citizens, please do not burden your descendants with the kind legacy the German ones will carry for eternity.
Some of the comments from our American cousins here remind me of the story of the famous Collyer brothers in New York. They were so fearful of another depression that they collected and hoarded something like 165 tons worth of street found junk in their New York brownstone - they had the entire building. Remarkable story which I'd recommend to anyone not familiar with it.
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@@TimeGhost If the ideas are so evil, why not let them stand on their own merit. Surely people have enough agency without daddy censor to keep them in line.
you just told one side of the story which was the entrepreneur´s side where many of them made a big buck by paying low wages which wasn´t enough to feed a family which leads to the flipside where the vast majority of the people in Germany was simply starving on a daily basis in those roaring twenties...and after the black friday things got even worse and went down south and those circumstances led to the rise of the Nazis...and at those political ralleys of the Nazis at first they fed the people followed by their speeches and the people cheered because their stomachs were filled for the very first time since a long time.
michael grabner we told both sides of the story, and anything that happens after 1928 is covered in the episodes covering 1930, 32, 33 and 34.
I'm 15 seconds into this video, and I'm already hooked. Here's why
1) He gets right in. No "click the bell subscribe blah blah." He doesn't waste our time. He doesn't even introduce himself. He figures (correctly) that if we like how he teaches, we'll take the time to figure out who he is:
2) He uses no overt political jargon that gives away his political bent. He clearly wants to teach, not indoctrinate. He delves right into his topic and doesn't do some useless "in this video, I'll cover. . " Yes, well, if we like the video, we'll find out what he covers, won't we? So he simply starts teaching. This is the hallmark of a confident teacher who actually has something to say.
3) His backdrop. It is interesting enough to be engaging, but not distracting. He uses the Art-Deco theme of the era he's covering (as well as his clothing) to demonstrate that he knows a little bit about what he's talking about.
4) He's speaking diction and speed are spot-on: Not too fast so we can't follow, but not so slow that we start looking at our watches.
OK, so, really, I have no idea if I agree with his points, or his outlook, but if he was a prof. at college, I'd fight to be able to petition his classes.
What made you choose this specific episode to start the series?
@@brandtlucasbrandt It's just a period of 20th century history I'm interested in
also his costume, suspenders and haircut, are akin to the period. I like this guy for the same reasons. I hope he's not a trumpkin
@@djaaliprandi7210 What if I were to tell you, you can still like/be friends with people even though they have different political identities/beliefs than you?
@@brandtlucasbrandt not regarding Trump. A person who would vote for and encourage a candidate who says "Mexicans are rapists and murderers," who makes fun of the disabled, who says Africa is full of sh*thole countries, and says that people who march under the Swastika are "good people," is not a person I want to be friends with. Now, supporters of Bush, Jr. for example, were different. Plenty of people had somewhat logical reasons (though I believe wrong), for supporting Bush's invasion of Iraq. But to support Trump is to support the worst kind of person, pure and simple, end of discussion.
"If America crashes then so does Germany - hard"
Oh boy...
Yeah, but how would that booming American economy ever crash, right? Haha...
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Next episode - "The American Economy Crashes and Burns!"
@@TheBR4INP4IN Yes, do you know how? Here, some wisdom from Thomas Sowell: ruclips.net/video/AQQon4tjlSA/видео.html
It's the same today, if you think about it.
It's a little misleading that you don't start with the French invasion of Germany in 1923. We tend to overlook this in the West. It had a massive impact on Germany.
They don't want to talk about that, or the Polish attacks on native Germans because it destroys the "nothing is wrong" narrative they are trying to sell. This "lecture" was pure propaganda from the usury suspects.
😂 I bet!! After all, French debauchery is second to none but the Romans
I guess it was a bit like Sadam not allowing unrestricted weapon inspections though, the totalitarian regime could have cooperated rather than provoking a conflict. But I didn't know about that invasion so thanks for expanding my knowledge.
@@Pompomgrenade Let's say third
Unpaid unrealistic unreasonable reparations the cause.
I remember well, a conversation with a man in the late 1970', from Bavaria, who as a child was poor and starving. He was willing to overlook many of Hitler's atrocities, because he still considered him a savior from starvation.
An acquaintance who'd been an AFS exchange student in Austria in the early '70s told a friend of mine a similar story; viz. the host family grandparents had voted because of food. So it's utterly ridiculous to suggest that the Treaty of Versailles, that kept Most of Germany starving in the '20s & later, wasn't a Major factor in the rise of the national SOCIALISTS.
Well into the 80s .women interviewed did the same.
It’s getting harder to find an honest explanation of 20th century events on RUclips. Bitchute will give you the bigger picture.
He sounds like an idiot considering that WWII led tens of millions (including millions of Germans) to starve. Crediting Hitler with saving Germany from starvation sounds like a pitiful justification for supporting a mad man.
@@lotstolearn5350 They were no more Socialist, than Suddam's Republican Guard were GOP you moron. They adopted the name to leverage the popularity of Socialism. Kinda like how conservatives in the US call themselves Christian, while their policies and agenda are the antithesis of the teachings of Jesus.
When I was stationed in Bavaria in the mid 90s, one could still see the divide between the very conservative rural and the very liberal urban areas. And frequently, these areas were very close to one another. I was stationed in Vilseck, which is only a 25-30 minute train ride from Nürnberg and the cultural divide was marked.
Feels like today we are living in pre great depression Weimar Republic, with a massive meltdown approaching.
AFD and die linke ? Inheritors of the nazis ideas and mindset on one side, and the direct descendant of the communist party on the other.
Unites in their hatred of slavs, southern europeans and the french. And all wanting to dominate europe.
It's kinda scary. Since when you look closely, germany is not that democratic, the behavior of Merkel and the mindset of germans looks like imperial prussia.
They have no problem with freedom of speech and the press being curtailed massively and the state persecuting people that don't agree with what it promulgates.
This comment ages well.
We are on the edge of an abyss. China and Russia are stockpiling gold for a reason. The US dollars days as the world currency is ending soon.
More relevant than ever now 👀
@@akiraraiku
True, but every comment I've ever read I can't understand how she keeps getting back into office? They say treason (+) but...?? What Gives? Oh that's right, they are selected, NOT elected {that's just the illusion sold to us, hold on wait WE actually pay for this charade.
Have a great day. God bless y'all 🙏❤️ 🙏
Such a shame that the interwar period in school was such a blitzover, I love the information presented and density of what happened in between, so much to learn!
All the same all around the world. We spent more time with stone age than with current (coz this is) history..
IMO the period 1914-1945 is the most exciting time in the history of the entire world. I've spent my life (I'm 69) studying it and still find new things out all the time.
@Fabian Kirchgessner Not to mention the chapters that could actually teach people a few things about how a proper democracy works.
Sure it is anyones democratic right to strip all controlmechanisms from their government, but don't be offended when I point you to certain similarities with a certain period...
Though it`s not as simple as depicted here. It`s true that the Nazis agitated and demonstrated against what they viewed as a harmful development (or used it for their own goals), the same is true for German Communists. Actually Nazis just adopted the rhetoric of the radical left.
They even sometimes worked together against the democratic government of Weimar-Germany...
www.spiegel.de/spiegel/spiegelspecialgeschichte/d-55573688.html
I'm skimming through a book again that I have read several times. It's called "Germany Tried Democracy, 1918 to 1933". Copyright 1946 by S William Halperin. Some amazing similarities to present days. There show be a documentary or even a movie.
You control the money you lend. You control the crash. You control the saviour who will make things better.
You dont control the money you lend. That is a huge HUGE misconception .. money lenders NEED to lend to survive ... they cant pick and choose their customers just like any other business. Govts NEED people to buy govt bonds. Both sides have just as much control over the other. Its just people who borrow dont work together. But when you start to think of them as a group .. as in the MARKET .. you realize they control the money lenders completely as its the market that controls the stocks the shares and the vaue of bonds and indeed the money lenders. The borrower is not slave to the money lender at all.. the money lender is slave to the market they are BOTH slaves in the relationship.
@@silverkitty2503lol absolutely nonsense
@@silverkitty2503 riiiiiiight and who is it that controls the market?
@@kauaiaguyathe opportunity cost of choosing the other potential offer
@thefinstasis do you think basic human needs are naturally part of this 'market'? What changes when the seller owns, and manages, along with their 'competitors', the majority share of that market of basic human needs? (Food, housing, clean water...)
the parallels between then and right now are seriously unsettling...
They should be. History is relevant because it repeats itself.
same people behind it to
Both sides are propped up, the left was brought out and given space to incite the right. Out of that war the political elite who ENGINEERED IT, reaped the benefits, likewise, the current state of affairs in the world today are planned out. Just look into Albert Pike and the plan for 3 world wars. It's not hidden, it's not tucked away or forbidden knowledge. They told everyone their plans.
Seek Jesus, the next 10 years are going to be absolutely brutal if this thing is going as fast as i expect it is.
@@brokenrecord3523 History doesn't just randomly repeat, it's the same agenda used over and over, in slightly different ways.
Just don’t let the political right get into power and we should be OK
As an economist and student of economic history, I am very impressed with the historic and economic accuracy of your videos. These would be excellent videos for college level political-economy studies. You cut through mythistory and deliver solid history. The videos on your channels are also very entertaining. I’m proud to be a patron.
He didn't mention Von Mises though
I'm only 5 minutes in though but still Von Mises should have been mentioned back in 1923
Hi there. Forget college this should be taught in highschool so people will not do stupid stuff and get in trouble. The earlier the better. Stay safe out there. Take care and God bless.
If this were so, you should be surprised at the little amount of time spent on speaking on the social decay at that time. Gay bars, crossdressers, and even the first sex-change surgery were all characteristics of this time in Germany, and it is what lead to much of the Nazis message; Germany has spiraled down into Hell.
@@marcritchie4968 who was von mises?
Shaky economic foundation? In the 1920s? No, everything will be fine!
*cough* _eagerly waits for 1929 part 2_ *cough*
*electric boogaloo intensifies*
As the title reads: "Part 1 of 1"
NIGHT OF BROKEN GLASS 2
No don’t cough you’ll give me Spanish flu wait no coronavirus wait which one is it this time
And the financial crisis this time will make 1929 look like a very minor economic disruption. The US stock market is already overvalued by more than 200%.
>hedonism
>decadence
>unstable economic system
>20s
History rhymes
Woah! You need to take little sips at the koolaid, not guzzle it.
@@chickenusgoddus464 Echoes...
2020's
@@brokenrecord3523This video is a half ass version of the history. The PERVERSION GOING on Hamburg and BERLIN GERMANY makes San Francisco look like a church compared to Berlin GERMANY in the 1920'S. You need to watch the other RUclips videos on here from 1920'S Berlin and your see the hidden facts this guy didn't show. Because facts Matter!
It's utterly terrifying how close this is to the situation we are in now. History doesn't repeat, but it sure as hell does rhyme.
The sequel.....with nukes
Yeah,I'm sure everything will be fine..
@@boofmcgoof1534 Nukes make it more likely that we'll at least have communication between nations and not mobilisation of war machines between economies that are though wounded still heavyweights.
Yes, thanks Nato for destroying entire countries, but remember america is GOOD
You want to hear how it feels in Germany right now?
The rise of our right wing party Afd (I would call them outright fascist) is staggering. There was a right wing motivated murder of a politician and an attack on a Jewish church (fortunately that somewhat failed) just this year.
Poland is dismantling it's democracy. Italy has voted for a right wing party and the United States don't seem to be in the best shape either
...the list goes on
I think it's scary. I am properly scared.
History DOES repeat.
My grandmother was an American visiting Germany in the early 20s. She met and married my grandfather in 1923. They continued to live in Berlin for a year or two before her family encouraged her to bring her new husband to America. Part of their concern was the German economy and part of it was concern over govenrment stability and the rise of Nazism. It proved to be a wise decision.
@@kaczynskis5721 As a native born and raised American citizen, my grandmother was not subject to our immigration laws. As her husband, my grandfather was "grandfathered" in. In 1937, when they returned to Germany with my young father to advise other family members to emigrate immediately, the situation had worsened greatly. Most did get out, but just barely, and entry into the USA took quite a while.
You must have Jewish heritage then. It was great for everyone else (pre war) who no longer wanted to be exploited by a zionist banking cabal squeezing them from both sides with communism/capitalism used as tools for subversion of a people.
Both sides are propped up, the left was brought out and given space to incite the right. Out of that war the political elite who ENGINEERED IT, reaped the benefits, likewise, the current state of affairs in the world today are planned out. Just look into Albert Pike and the plan for 3 world wars. It's not hidden, it's not tucked away or forbidden knowledge. They told everyone their plans.
Seek Jesus, the next 10 years are going to be absolutely brutal if this thing is going as fast as i expect it is...
As a farmer, those sound like terrible times for German farmers. Some of their plight, I can relate to today. The joys of living off the land Ha
"Gold plated age" and "Slaves to the stock market" are two unfortunate phrases that may once again demonstrate history repeating itself.
The U.S. is in a terrible position, today....
With stockmarket and to a slightly lesser degree, the bond market.
I dunno. The previous, pre-ww1 era was already also called the gilded age. I am sure if you scratch ANY economy in any period hard enough you will find some amount of latent issues. It's not so much about macroeconomics as it is globalisation and fiscal conservation in my estimation.
Over in the US, we're calling the current time "the second GIlded Age", the first being in the late 19th century.
@nikolai bahtin that is my nightmare. Getting caught in that collapse without any source of income. Not to mention the stormy Politics. It's scary to think about when that powder keg will burst.
@nikolai bahtin will be the chaos in earth.
Similar to what is happening now: Rural-Urban divide, low and middle class struggling while large corporations boom.
Why do you think that any American living in an Urban area of the country automatically has a better situation than someone who lives in a rural area?
@@mariakelly5 when did I mention income? or quality of life? I speak of a divide- cultural mostly.
@@Abcflc would a cultural urban/rural divide have the same effect as an economic urban/rural divide?
@@newcreationinchrist1423 I think class struggles are always present in a capitalistic society, so the added cultural split does not help. The divide is a fight for the steering wheel of the nation. The effects would be similar.
Federal Reserves a bitch
These type of videos should be MANDATORY in our schools.
This was an eye opener for sure. My view of the German situation in the 1920's is forever changed and improved in understanding. It makes so much sense now.
You're welcome!
Sadly in the 1970's even the 90's many were still scratching their heads over how so called normal Germans became so radicalized, and could look the other way while young Jewish German mothers out walking with their child could be brutalized in the street by the police and unarmed elderly neighbors carted away to camps at gun point, while the Romani gypsies and LGBT Germans were already in the jails and camps.
Television is worthless beyond description, so thankful for these videos, and Indie...
@hauntedmoodylady I hope you understand this video is as deceptive and agenda driven in its propaganda as anything you’d see on television.
@@spiritscar Propaganda against what? Nazis? Okay buddy!
@Pemze So presenting distortions and lies about history is justified as long as it serves the “right” agenda?
Okay buddy...
You disgust me.
@@spiritscar 😂😂😂 where are the lies?
@@spiritscar you can be disgusted by me all you like, I really don't care what someone on the internet thinks about me lol
Good to see someone speaking some truth instead of parroting what we were taught about WW2.
I'm no denier but there are way too many lies about this era, what came out of it, and for what ends.
I appreciate your honesty
Evers time i hear "i'm Indy Neidell" not followed by "welcome to the Great War" i get confused
Me too, but it's good to see him here nonetheless.
im disapointed of him not saying "and this is world war two"
LOl you can even see it in his face he had to catch himself.
I keep expecting "and this is Sabaton history"
"If America crashes, then so does Germany, hard."
US Stock Traders: That won't ever happen... uh oh
“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.”
As I sit here, two years later than most of the other comments here, I can say that there are many, many similar things going on today that run parallel with the events spoke about in this video.
It's so many that it makes one wonder who continues to push these actions, even while knowing the outcome. The unsettling thing is, that the Weimar period wasn't the first time these things were tried either.
The outcome will be the same again I'm afraid.
We shouldn't be so quick to judge the actions of people in the past, especially when we do not fully understand the things that brought them to their places in history.
Yes. It was deliberate policy then it is deliberate policy now. Except this time every Central bank is printing money and mega mega amounts. There is only one outcome. War.
Describing anything involving Weimar as a golden era is really too rich. If there was no weimar and there was no attempt to bankrupt the Germans there would be no Nazis: that's a fact.
In fact there was no attempt to bankrupt the Germans. Yes, the peace agreements was harsh for Germany, but it was ink on the paper. The rise of the Hitler' power was happily welcome on the West as a protect against spread Comunism and Soviets. They ignored nations of the Central Europe in their role agains two totalitarians.
@@atam3977 saying why America was happy something happened isn't the same as saying why said event happened. It was ink on paper enforced by an international alliance that could essentially sanction their economy and enforce that with the tip of a gun. Peace implies war.
@@Noone-mo4dr In the first few years, yes. Later, the Western elites turned a blind eye to what the Germans were doing. According to their principle: 'Germany is too big to fail'. Today, part of the elite thinks similarly, enforcing 'peace for our times': the Russian empire is too big to fail because it will lead to a series of great catastrophes. But if the Russian empire does not pay for the war of aggression, it will continue to detail Europe for the next decades.
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sounds jewish.
"Spend now because you know how quickly it can all disappear." That's actually the lifestyle I subscribe to today...
Hah - Me Too !
The biggest Allied mistake with the Versaille Treaty was allowing the Germans to keep their cool-looking helmets. If they were forced to wear Tommypots instead, Hitler couldn't have recruited like he did.
Freestyle an unsung truth.
@@ChallisVenstra The clincher would have been to make them replace the swastika with a toilet plunger.
About a month ago I saw a guy riding down the highway on a motorcycle wearing a stahlhelm. Not sure if he was making some kind of statement, but he sure did look tough.
@@fender3873 Americans brought the stahlhelm home with them after ww2 and it became a part of biker culture as it grew out of the returning veterans.
Every man is a stud in a German helmet.
I noticed Indy has a drink again! Down with temperance! Down with prohibition! 😂🍻
Cheers to Indy! 😀
America in the 20’s was called a nation of scoff law’s...
water or vodka?
vodka, beer, wine, sherry, whatever works!
@UlisesHeureaux oh darn. The movement has destroyed Indy! 😵 No more will we hear him ordering 5 drinks. 😭
I remember some painter warning that in a century he would be proven right
Did he die in a ditch full of petrol, on fire?
Yup!
Proven right? And we are still waiting for Jesus.😂😂😂
@@Farokudagelap Who is this painter? Wait...nevermind. Painter + ditch + proven right = mustache
@@kerrylawson7515 Nah, heard he was kickin' it in Argentina for a while.
That really cleared up some misconceptions I had. It always seems like people want to simplify explanations of historical events. The problem is most things are not that simple.
How tragically true, and how unfortunate that if you try to explain the complex situations leading to the outcome, you can often watch the eyes glaze over as they tune you out.
@Burning City You don't even understand what "history" means, do you? I won't bother explaining anything as it is rather obvious you have already made up your mind to twist things into an anti-American thing, when America wasn't even mentioned in my comment.
Quite true, for example in the 1928 elections the Nazi party got 2,6%, in 1930 a mere two years later they got 18% and in 1932 in two quick consecutive elections twice they got more than 30%. So what happened in between? Well it's complicated, like you point out.
Yeah but it still doesn’t change the fact that failed economies seem to produce far right and left movements
@@shinybald36 , totalitarianism, in any form is bad.
On top of that, the only real difference between fascism and communism is how they get the power. Oh sure, fascism had racism thrown in, it's not like the Communists have anything against Jews or the people of the Urals, or the Turks or...
The bit about places outside the big cities reminds me of a lot of major European states today including my own (Britain) where rural areas and smaller towns and cities have been neglected to fuel big businesses in our capitals an/or large cities. Hopefully the balance can be restored unlike the 1920's and 30's.
seeing that the current geo-political situation is a lot like the 1920's and 30's is highly unsettling
That IS the balance
3 years later do you feel like this getting any better?
@@chucklindenberg1093 Disappointing. Some small progress has been made with “levelling up funds” and the like, but key infrastructure projects meant to help the North for example such as HS2 either being scaled back or delayed has annoyed many.
@@cobbler9113 Interesting and truthfully I am not surprised by your response.
I am not conspiracy theorist, but I have questions....
Why is it that every time progressive leftists/right wing(aka those politicians who believe progress results from government) identify a problem; that problem never seems to get solved?
Personally I would think that the west's reaction to Covid would be an enormouse red pill moment for a lot more people than it has currently. Especially since some significant portion of Covid alarmists were willing to "otherize" those of us that dared disagree with their alarmist narrative.
Don’t forget how influential Edward Bernays was in this “consumeristic boom’. He was even involved in The Treaty of Versailles at the end of WW1. Quite the ‘interesting’ man and I would argue dangerous!
Funny how we all have heard of his uncle, yet not of him, even though he arguably had a much greater impact on our modern society than Freud ever did.
You need an old fashion microphone to really pull your nifty set together.
The experience of hyperinflation would encourage consumerism. If your cash savings could be wiped out by the actions of the government, that provides incentive to turn it into goods which might still have value if the currency loses its value again and at very least, you can use in the meantime. That also encourages taking on debt, as a currency collapse effectively wipes out your debt.
Unfortunately, the coming collapse will be deflationary, which has the opposite effects.
During the inflation in Germany people sometimes survived as a result of windfalls. For example, a journalist found gold-plated dentures in his attic, and was able to live well from the proceeds for several weeks.
i wouldn't use the word encourage, it does more force people to spend their money as fast as possible, running into the next shop to buy everything they can.
My grandfather's cousin bred working horses for farmers, and like most people was using cash for only taxes, but bartering for everything else. BTW the "wheel barrow for a loaf of bread" is because the baker needed fire lighter to light his ovens....
[Seriously, 100,000 Mark bills printed on news paper on one side were used to light the baker's ovens....
Well having lived in a country that has a weak currency, I can say that this is true, you either spend it or more often what I see people do is convert it to a stable foreign currency like the dollar. Most people don't hold onto their savings for more than five years without turning it into property or cars or some hard good or foreign currency.
Prices will rise harder than people can consume. Maybe in the short term stores will get empty but then they need stuff from china to refill the stores.
Your verbal speech pattern and the visual presentation are nice. It's a great mini documentary. I enjoyed watching your production.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Weimer Republic: **exists**
Literally everything: Imma end this man's whole career
Then comes the boii with funny moustache
@Mial isus one of the dumbest memes for how strawmanny it is alone.
@@christianhoffmann8607 Hoes Mad
@@austinmcilhany2656 hey, she might be stupid, but to call Mial a hoe seems kind of unfair.
@Joe Frang national socialism was the defence against international socialism.
If Weimar was “economically stable” to you, then you’re hopeless.
I thought the same thing
I know right price changing in the time it took to order and get a meal literally losing purchasing power of your paycheck before you can even cash a check, wonder if he thinks that Zimbabwe was a stable market as well.
Look at his other videos and you'll understand.
The owners have a very high likelihood of being Jewish.
The point is it is always party time for the elites like Trump, Musk, Biden, successful businessmen, corporate executives, aristocracy etc.
Love the masonry mass stove behind you , that circumvents inflationary fuel prices.
How so??
Europe: We can not afford another war.
Germany: ‘Putsch’ it on my tab.
😂
Hold my beer?
Da dum tsss. 🥁
I really enjoy these snippets of history that is often not stressed in schools (at least in the USA). I am a history aficionado, but only as a dilettante. Your videos fill in the gap with details I never really understood before. Thank you so much for your efforts!
Google g.preperata conjuring Hitler you will find a free ebook txt. Excellent research sources. Fills in alot of questions and actual mechanics and players. Ie Lord Montague chairman of Bank of England 1920-46 was the chief architect of the events described here. Written with a heavy emphasis on Jewish sources so good understanding of how this conspiracy shaped or didn't shape up.
He hides that the communists were constantly revolting to crush the Weimar Republic. " There were golden years" exclusively for the Superrich people of Berlin, for artists, for Jewish filmmakers, for homosexuals and so on. But the majority of Germans lived in poverty. What a dishonest propaganda video.
Yeah, not so much, buddy. Difficult to fill gaps when he mentions Nazis railing against the "liberalized" and Americanized style of clothing their women are wearing, and somehow forgets to mention that during those same times, as with any nation riddled by poverty, Berlin becomes the hedonistic capital of the world, with prostitution the hands down largest employer of the female population. Also , quite ignorant to try to explain Germany turning to Fascism, without mentiuoning the main reason Fascism was created in the first place. To fight off Communist subversion of nations. Even Churchill had praised it's efficacy in this matter before WW2.
@Wayne D your comment might have triggered some nazi symphathizers, or at least, a bunch of radicals
@@mira460 Strongly agree. This gentleman has zero idea of the global _finances_ of the day, about America and Great Britain's stranglehold on gold and finance. Any country that wanted loans had to abide by its bankers' whims, such as cut socially progressive programs and infrastructure that benefitted the general population, i.e. _austerity_ . All surplus generated by the working class went back into repaying loans. The sole beneficiaries were the managerial classes (yeah, those who dined and danced and partied) who disciplined the workers and sent profits back to their bankers. Of course folks went to the movies in droves--cheap and pure escapist entertainment where one could take the entire family, unlike bars, casinos and bordellos.
The socialists, communists and nazis picked up on the discontent and grievances of the working classes and the rest is history. What a superficial analysis...
Michael Hudson and Aaron Good videos may prove illuminating to those who want to understand _real_ history.
Be well.
it's getting harder and harder to find good content on youtube, but damn, why do I only find good channels like this when it's late at night?
Anything worth reading or watching is shadow banned
Because anything but the official narrative is banned. A bit like Communist regimes. People need to look outside yo*tube for any balanced debate. All's this channel will allow on important subjects are the lies of Politicians the MSM and who funds them.
Thank you for the amazing graphic showing the circle of debt between the US, and Europe. I've known about it for several years. Y'all showed it perfectly. Now I can show it to people; instead of just trying to draw it on paper. Thank you.
No worries! Glad you appreciate it.
aka Euro-Dollar Macro-Econ
A circle of debt which he claims is "economic stability." 🙄
When that Theo dude called the German economy “gold plated” he missed a perfect opportunity to use the phrase “gilded”, a sadly underused expression.
I think the reason for calling it gold plated was a play on the term golden, which was used to describe the times. Gilded might be technically correct but wouldn't have the same play on words attached to it.
I hate it when a golden opportunity is lost.
oldesertguy actually there was a time in the US called the “gilded age”, the term was coined by Mark Twain for between 1865-1895 so it’s an accepted term.
Gilded is generally a positive term though, if you gild something it's a very fancy version of the original
@@georgek2092 Not necessarily; a "gilded lily", for example, refers to something plated in so much gold that the beauty of the original is lost.
So rare to see really well done videos on RUclips! The lighting and set are excellent. The narrator knows his script,is well informed and even dressed in period clothing! Good job all around!
Thank you
My grandfather who was around at the time and in his twenties told me a more educated view of the hyper inflation. It was caused by the German government it's self. By suffering through a massive devaluation of their currency they made the reparations forced on them by the Allies more or less worthless. Those in Germany with physical assets or property were largely unaffected. Debts disappeared since they were valued in pre inflation numbers.
Land owners and industrialist still owned their land, factories, material stock piles and machinery. Workers still had to be paid values that could feed them. After the painful period much of the financial penalties of Versailles had been blunted. After which the Germans kept largely to the military limitations. Which can be thought of as more economically advantageous. France and Britain continued to expend themselves on their military and navy. Maginot, battleship and carrier development. As well as expanded colonial commitments.
He went further to say that West Germany's resurgence after WW2 was based on the economic direction they had been forced into after WW1. Britain and Prance the WW1 winners had never had their ruling elites removed by the Weimar Republic and the Nazis. For 70 years German industry has been dominated by businesses run by people with technical scientific backgrounds in those actual industries. Not the sons of the wealthy installed on top. Something that never happened in Britain which is dominated by a hereditary wealthy elite obsessed with financial and political power. Instead of the basis of economic success, industrial activity.
Germany was forced to change by two defeats, the decimation of inherited wealth and turning it's back on military adventures. Things that France struggled to do and Britain has refused to do.
We should have learned a lot. Hereditary financial elites, racist far right militarists and oppressive communist regimes have all failed to deliver on their claims. As in fact has completely unrestrained free market capitalism which only leads to the three previous failures.
@@tothem1997 National socialism as an event in just one single country is absolutely no benchmark to measure with. Is success is measured by a ballot paper with one name on it and a club at your head, then I'm not so sure if that is ameasure of success either.
You're wrong with the assumption of race elimination as the cause, that was mere by-product. It was the simple matter of steeping outside the German pen that was the cause. Had he taken just Austia and possibly the Sudetenland territory, they might have got away with it, but Poland was one step too far. And rules are rules and the Germans understand rules only too well.
I would cite Venezuela as a current example of where national socialism did not succeed. It's not actually about percentage of votes, but really more about running a country properly. They can call it whatever they like but failure is failure in anybody' book.
@@apollomemories7399 he invaded poland because he feared for the german majority part who would have undergone an inevitable russian invasion.
This is as close to the truth as I've seen in these comments. It's interesting how this guy separates the "Golden Era" of the cities from the suffering that those who lived in the country went through as if they were separate events - they occurred at the time! The Weimar gov't was gridlocked and incompetent and their currency policy caused them to be on thin ice. And calling the uprisings as 'far right' is simply false. Many of the German people at the time were highly nationalistic to begin with, and they viewed the extravagant living of people in the city as an affront. It also didn't help that the city culture took opportunities to talk down to and insult the rural population. The Nazis essentially started out as just another socialist 'revolutionary' party among many already incubating in Germany at the time - they promoted themselves as champions of the working people.
Well the far right militarists failed so hard that they got elected with 98% of votes. And that the whole international financial heeeditary elites of every major country made their people go to war against them.
I was completely with you until that baseless non-sequitur of a final sentence.
My grandfather was a commercial photographer in the Neue Sachlichkeit, doing work for Bahlsen, Pelikan and others... very cool photos...
You can also see the influence of the Neue Sachlichkeit in german literature. Remarque's books have this simple style that fits perfectly to this kind of art
neat
I don't know why the RUclips algorithm recommended a 5yo video, but I'm glad it did.
Subscribed.
This was excellent, but the absence of both Communist pressure and veteran resentment kind of takes some of the history out of context.
Agreed
There seems to be a lot of missing context in this video.
Boy, as an American, hearing about the gains and problems of the Republic at this time hits close to home.
Who were the bankers that ruled Germany ?
Tiny hat people?
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@@yeoldebanjo5470 at that time there were 300,000 lady of the evening in Berlin . Germany wanted this to end .
@Go_for_it652 Weimerica makes it look like a Puritan utopia. Plus so many more progressive postmodern contributions since those times.
@@wordup897 I asked a former British WW2 aircraft mechanic who his hero was after WW 2'. He said the farmer who donated some land to have a soccer pitch to play on the weekends. The local pub put showers in the basement .In today's world of Canada and the US the thought police would stop freedom of assembly.
Not sure I agree, Indie: "The government printed more and more money" - when the German Reserve Bank was privately owned in a system similar to what we have today. "Political stability" meant 21 governments in 19 years. "Stabilised economy" - when German would have become a failed state by 1934.
I remember meeting a German lady that was a child during this time. She talked of having to take wheel barrels of money to simply buy bread with due to the insanely high inflation.
There's political instability and there's Political Instability. Having numerous governments come right after another does not necessarily mean the entire political system is being compromised-the same happened in Italy during their post-war boom. As long as no major forces threaten the regime, we can talk of some seblance of stability, especially in comparison to the previous situation.
@@yarpen26 cope
My great grandma (still alive) was born in 1928.
Ben Sagal-Morris My grandma was born in 1929 and I'm in my 20's
Pece17 I’m 19.
@@bensagal-morris8072 My grandpa was born in 1925. I'm 17.
My great-grandmother was born in 1915, in the old Kingdom of Romania
Mine was born in 1913 and im very early 20s
Ah the ever growing apologetics for consumerism and moral depravity. The growth of material wealth but the poverty of moral wealth.
Who's morals are we to judge by? Who can you claim is pure of heart? certainly not most who follow corrupt and unnatural spirituality of Abrahamic religions.
I must admit that for awhile when I was younger I believed in the myth that the Reparations brought about the rise of the Nazi's.
It was only later when I came to the conclusion that it was not really the case.
Especially now that fantastic channels like this one inform me otherwise a d debunk these myths.
The NSDAP was also a political party.
And you know what all political parties do.
They lie so you will vote for them.
I hope they make a video what made majority of the Germans to vote for Nazis.
@@adonizi I thaught they never had the majority. they had around 30% max and took over power in parlement.
But i am shure there will be a video about this with the correct facts.
The Nazi Party was actually one of many radical parties until 1930. The financial crisis and the following depression are the main reasons for the rise of the nazis. They finally had an example of "how the jewish capitalism is destroying germany".
You do realize that the loans were bc of the reparations, the treaty helped rhe nazis a lot, bc it held the country down.
I mean he does not even mention the lost land and other restrictions that contributed to the destabilization of the weimar republic.
This video is way to shortsighted in its look at the versail treaty and how it effected the population of germany.
The films of the Weimar Republic were some of the best being made in the world at that time. The money issues of UFA (due in part to Fritz Lang almost bankrupting it with Metropolis) aside, the films made in Germany were far superior to those made in the rest of Europe. It was just hard to compete with Chaplin and Pickford as far as ticket sales are concerned.
To be honest, Metropolis is so good it's almost worth bankrupting the studio.
battra92 Thank you for your Comment . I am having to deal with learning this with some Mild Research that I am Doing Now . At 6:15 a.m I was outside Lulu's former apartment building . This video was Timely .
Chaplin was absolute rubbish. He was NOT funny.
I just started watching Babylon Berlin - thank you for explaining more about what's going on in the background here!
Thanks guys, I really learn a lot from this series. More than with the ww2 series actually. This video again shows that events are not caused by a single push. It is many small occurrences that pushes a society in a certain direction (not one dimensional, but multi-multi dimensional). And then a choice must be made.... But the thing is, only a few has enough knowledge or information to make a choice (and you cannot blame them; well most of them).
"The New Woman" was very potent in Weimar Cinema and by extension in people's minds. Check out "Der blaue Engel," "Metropolis," "Pandora's Box" as some famous examples.
Many men and more conservative women reacted against this, and the Nazis made "children, kitchen, church" their slogan expressing their attitude to women.
@@kaczynskis5721 But they don’t even let women be pastors so what role do they really have in the church?
Thank you for an informative perspective on the era between the wars and some insight into the frailty & turmoil under the Weimar Republic. Subscribed.
Man, you play the part without question. An easy sub, thanks for the attention to detail and rare footage sir.
In my Family my Great Aunt Lena sold Everything she owned to by a New Dress and a Boat Ticket to America. It Happened
What year was that?
@@JG-tt4sz 23 or 24 I think. My parents are long gone. I just remember the story my Dad told. I met Lena once, 1965? She was real old and I was real young. Thanks for asking
I love stories like this. That took guts.
She Bought a Farm here. Ran it by herself. In the Crash of 29, my Granddad lost it all, Greedy was gonna get Rich in the Stock market. The family Moved in with Tante Lena. Where my Dad grew up. She passed away in the early 70s
@@randyherbrechtsmeier4796 Classic depression story. People worked together back then to overcome adversity. My Great Granfather (Belgian immigrant) lost an apartment building when bank called the loan. Three generations of family had to move in together. Im absolutely fascinated with the riches to rags stories of the 1920s. It motivates me not to get extravagant, but to live a frugal and prudent life. Thanks for sharing.
is funny how history doesn't repeat but rhythms perfectly every century
I feel like these economic booms have a tendency to leave out farmers and rural populations. Although I guess they had their moment in like 3000 BC to be fair.
Yes... that's when the hunter gatherers got left out though.
:D
Soviet Russia and modern China have taken it to new levels. They force the farmers to grow the food and then take it, all of it, to feed the cities.
@@snakerstran9101
As opposed to south American farmers who cannot afford to buy their own crops. Or the factory workers who will never own the cars they build, or the electronic device you are using that is a product of modern day slavery.
I have spoken to farmers in the USA that mentioned there was a boom actually in the 70's and 80's. Some Farmers were millionaires even. That seems to have died out though. Most modern US farmers only really survive because of government subsidy.
1:18 No, Germany was not in an economic boom in 1928, but rather was experiencing economic instability. loans dried up, stock market has been declining over a year, margins were falling, foreign debt increased and the standard of living was plummeting. Saved you 16 min, go read David lirving.
Thanks
I'd rather read an actual historian, thanks
Danke. I really love art and culture from the 1920s and appreciate learning more about Germany, where my family comes from
Very interesting. I have always wondered about the Weimar Republic's failure to govern. (The rise & fall of Weimar sounds eerily familiar to our modern times.) Thanks for providing new insights for me. Thanks.
Not gonna lie, I feel for the farmers and middle class. Even today the western economies thrive on exploitation and profit at all costs.
The farmers and middle class has never had it better
@@jacobjorgenson9285 which farmers? and which middle class?
Ok commie
Oh, this is an interesting RUclips recommendation.
Subscribed.
There is an old phrase in Germany about the Weimar republic: "Back in the old days, if somebody left a basket of money out, you take the basket, because that has value" It's sad, hyperinflation, very sad.
A good clear lesson as to why debt forgiveness is a good idea. You have to break the cycle at some point.
Love the Tamara De Lempica-posters, good job!
Watching this episode was a bit of a shock for me!! A lot of what I thought I understood and commonly accepted is questioned here. Most of what is said I knew, but I did not realise how much German living standards had recovered after the WW1, the dicotomy between urban and rural, progressive and conservative, the impact of American culture and that German indiustry was very much in the process of modernisation. Take all of this into account, I think I need to review and increase my knowledge of Germany between the wars.
GREAT STYLE. I LIKE IT!!!!
Thank you - there is more in the next episodes on Germany. When you look at the details of Germany pre-Nazis, things change a bit.
@T Austin This video and it’s presenter has an agenda and is presenting propaganda. I do hope you understand that. To simply listen to what he has to say about this period, and blindly accept that as definitive truth is folly. Most of what is presented here is skewered, selective, and omitting of many many realities of the time.
@@spiritscar Which were? For at the moment, it sounds like you're the one with an agenda.
@@zexal4217 I'm going to agree that this video is presented in a manner which is skewered, selective, and omitting many of the realities of the time. This said, I believe it's wise to view any presentation of history in the same manner. On top of that I'll view the presentation with my own rose glasses. Finally, no matter how matter how much I learn of a topic I'll never know all there is to know.
@@spiritscar WRONG. I lived this, you fool. yes, I am old. I remember starving.
Bankruptcy doesn't create Nazis
WW2 Video Games do
-Extra Credits
Lol
@@nodinitiative There you are, playing your favorite World War 2 shooter, then all of a sudden, You're a Nazi!
The meme makers downloaded the video immediately because no one can truly argue that and keep it up. Yet, still it stands. Leftists are breathtaking.
@@Marinealver A nazi WITHOUT the balls to use the swastika. I wonder what bullshit message they were trying to send.
I played BF V last night, this morning I woke up to find out Ich heiße Hans und bin über Nacht Nazi geworden
Superb presentation - thank you! In the UK, we used to have documentaries of this quality, but they are now no more :-(
wow, i learned more than in 13 years of history class. (im from germany)
Not from Germany, but I have read a lot of German history, and I agree. A brilliant introduction.
Not just you.
If Time Ghost ever manages to cover post WW2 reconstruction, it'll be a good thing.
My history classes had cram sessions for the 50s through the 90s by the end of the year and we simply didn't have time to get through the nitty gritty before term exams.
I still remember my nightmares from thinking I missed the alarm for the mandatory arrival period. Being locked out of a building even in your dreams is a horrifying experience.
This is eerily similar in some ways to today's world
There is nothing new under the sun.....
History, does repeat itself.
Especially since history is not tought in schools the way it needs to be. (Making it personal. Showing how the individual and their family got where they are.)
Especially the part where he says that if the USA's economy crashes so does Germany's economy. But today, it's more like over half the world's economy will crash if the USA will.
Many of the problems of today were born in the early 20th century
Europe has tried hard to find truth without God for many generations, reasoning truth from rationale (rational reasoning), to imperialism (science as the ultimate arbiter of everything), to existentialism (experiences as the final test of truth), and now postmodernism, which discards everything and says there are no truths, no meaning, and no certainty. Europe was the seedbed for all of these even though they spread throughout the west. A large enough economic or power play crisis could cause a cascade of biblical proportions.
Because Germany lost and judaea won.
We have Revolution. Going around and around.
Everything is conTrolled by jeews.
Massive amount of research have put into this video. Kudos!
I already wrote that under the first Video of this Series, but you guys are really doing an amazing Work. Not only is your Quality unbeleavibly high, you are also managing to teach History on a Niveau that comes close to what you learn in the First Years of University, you are also doing this in a way that is thrilling and entertaining to watch. The Between two Wars Series is also my favoourite Series so far, because it is not so War focused.
Thumbs up, i am really Grateful that i can Enjoy History on that Level of Quality for Free. Thanks!!!
Thanks for the kind words! We appreciate it. Its our fans support which keeps us going - both mentally and financially.
Unsustainable growth creates unfounded confidence. Sounds familiar.
It's interesting how contrary the great, happy, fast music of the Twenties -that often included a whole orchestra of skilled musicians of the Twenties is compared to the actual situation of most people.
And today most people in the West are doing well, but most of the popular music is horrible, slow paced and sad scrap, in which somebody manages to push two different piano keys in the background.
just listen to some vivaldi
they were all pumped-up on coke and fiat currency
You know ur country is screwed when a old senile general is the only thing keeping ur country afloat
Under the Weimar system the German President was largely a figurehead. The President's only real card to play was that he could appoint the Chancellor, who was the real head of the government.
@@Guitcad1 Hindenburg had little day-to-day work as President and was probably too old to undertake a significant workload anyway.
Great presentation of complex facts and situations. I'm the son of teachers, so I know it's difficult to touch on everything in fifteen minutes. Look forward to checking out your other videos on that time period. Thanks for your efforts..
This sounds a lot like a description of [current year] America.
with the same people behind all these things, weird right?
Closed captioning substituted the word "conservativism" for the word reactionism used in the actual talk. These are actually two different things. Reactionism being an extreme type of conservatism in which progress is pushed backwards quite a bit.
So like todays conservatives lol
A lecture about Germany's economics that is interesting to watch. Great information and presentation.
Great video. One more point, about that war debt. According to James F. Dunnigan and Albert A. Nofi in Dirty Little Secrets of World War II (Harper Collins, 1996), Germany spent about as much in the four years of the Great War, adjusted for inflation, as the United States, far and away the world’s largest economic power at the time, would later spend in ten years in Vietnam. And they borrowed it from their own population. Making those repayments couldn’t have been much easier than making the reparations payments, particularly as they accounted for a larger proportion of German’s war debt.
you missed how the Versailles Treaty was brutally harsh in forcing reparations
Always keep an eye on the small group behind the curtains. Always.
You, my friend, earned a Like, comment, and subscribe, with this video, AND I've hit the bell icon!
Great video, to the point with compelling content, great footage, great delivery, and no begging. This is RUclips the way it should be.
Thanks for the support! It really means a lot!
As a German, I really appreciate your work. Thank you for the depth and breadth of analysis, as the perfect storm begins brewing. Hopefully, will also serve as a warning for today. US citizens, please do not burden your descendants with the kind legacy the German ones will carry for eternity.
I wish more of my fellow Americans would read your comment.
Fantastic presentation, glad i found this channel.
Welcome!
Some of the comments from our American cousins here remind me of the story of the famous Collyer brothers in New York. They were so fearful of another depression that they collected and hoarded something like 165 tons worth of street found junk in their New York brownstone - they had the entire building. Remarkable story which I'd recommend to anyone not familiar with it.
Heck! you do great history content
So accurate, Well spoken, so informative & detailed, unbiased
I can’t believe you’re demonetized!
Such a shame :(
That means he's telling the truth. Thanks!
@@STARDRIVE Yes. I was just going to say that! Thank you.
Demonetized means there’s truth here.
Became interested in the Weimar Era after purchasing a lute-guitar made during the period.
Informative presentation, thanks!
You're welcome!
Reading project for you :
The Berlín Diaries
of
Christopher Isherwood.
Fine exact rendering of Berlin in the swing time between the wars.
The parallels to the modern US social climate are rather striking.
Who would be the equivalent of the Nazis?
Marcus Heath only they arent
No
David Esparza no he don’t
As ever, the answer is extremely obvious to everyone except those directly involved. >.>
This is great. What a tremendous channel. Thank you. Subbed!
Welcome to our channel!
Oh God. I feel like my country is undergoing this phase. I hope we came out well..