Learning about Weimar in the 1920s is truly tragic, because it seemed like things were going to work out well. There's a point in Richard Evan's Third Reich Trilogy where he describes Stresemann's reforms and the political/economic outlook in 1929, saying that things were looking better and better - and then the stock market crashed.
Post Great Depression Schizophenia. There were plenty of people who had already realized that Versailles was nothing but a ceasefire. It couldve been prevented but polticians such as Stresemen only made it more likely instead of preventing it.
@@theotherohlourdespadua1131 weimar germany was failed from the start. The Entente tried to install parliamentary democracy in a nation that wasnt even a nation. The German Empire had become a military dictatorship while it had been a dictatorship of the prussian bureaucracy before. You cannot make democracy appear simply by saying so. Weimar is called Weimar because it was so unstable that the government had to move from Berlin to Weimar. It was born amidst reactionary death squads shooting civilians. That cannot be the foundation of a stable nation. It ran on the fumes of the empowered liberals who had been fighting and compromising with radicals since 1918. The solution is not to impose an ideal of a system on an entity that isnt fit for it.
17:20 The story of the Weimar Republic in a nutshell. A state which at all times gleefully sought the violent eradication of working class radicalism, yet always treated the reactionary right with restraint and a velvet soft touch, even when it was outspoken in it's contempt for the democracy Weimar claimed to stand for.
You have to remember, these reactionary rightwing elements are also overwhelmingly comprised of hardened WW1 veterans and I doubt the Weimar government would want to pick a fight with those guys
I LOVED how it blitzed through his childhood. Most biographies you can skip the childhood and miss nothing. At best they say "It strengthen his/her work ethic"
@SirManateee once you see Nixon's childhood and how he was inspired by his brother cause he didn't survive childhood... that is the exact same child story for every other historical figure. Elvis has a similar story with his twin that was never born. And I was born in 83, so i had my fair share of OLD TIMER old pre-technology stories. Kinda the reason why ppl were always so crabby back in the day though
Very cool to hear about some of the people who made an effort to try and make the Weimar Republic work. It’s been portrayed as this doomed project with very little nuance, like a sad intermission between the wars.
38:20 OH my photographers eye loves this photo. The subject is framed in the center prominently, it’s well lit, the less important subjects are either not facing the camera or moving as to distort their face, only the subject we care about is focused and he’s right in the center. I love this image
I must say its sort of ironic to see your quality of Video improve overall and your style of telling history becomming more investing, but the RUclips algorythm seems to dislike it. Honestly think you deserve more atention, great Video always like to see more
Sir Manatee! Please keep coming with more videos like this. Your explanation about riveting subjects are the best of the best! The Viewer benefits from your skill and knowledge.
A remarkable and fascinating individual so much potential that existed for Germany and the world. At that time I really think Streseman is the example every politician and diplomat should strive to be today.
Stresemann has always fascinated me, what a brave and tenacious dude in an unbelievably dangerous and difficult time. Such a tragedy that the state he was trying to consolidate was so short lived
"Brave" in which aspect? He was an effective diplomat yet Treaty of Locarno and secret re-militarisation with Soviets set clear direction revisions that German state envisioned - regardless whether it would be "fully democratic" or fully national-socialist.
Streseman reminds me a lot of the Japanese conservatives who held power in the post-war decades (like Yoshida Shigeru, Ikeda Hayato, etc), who were right-wing nationalists at heart but understood that Japan can only be rejuvenated through economic growth and participation in the new world system
Another amazing video Sir Manatee. One wonders if Stressemann would be able to stand up against nazism, should he had been still alive in the 30s of the past century.
Great stuff! A very well organized video with a clear structure front to back. 🙏 Thank you for making it! You can't help but wonder, if Stresemann living longer would have changed anything at all... Him dying mere days before the stock market crash of 1929 and before the major rise of the NSD@P kind of freezes all his achievements in amber.
It could be argued that his early death preserved his legacy. I can't imagine how he'd have reacted to seeing his work come crashing down. Thing is, Brunning was actually on the path to restoring the German economy. Unfortunately, his policies weren't allowed to mature. I can't imagine Stresemann would have fared much better.
@@oooshafiqooo I am essentially agreeing with you. I don't know why you insult me. I said he was best hope for German republic. If he didn't die maybe nazis wouldn't have come into power and eventually WW2 would not have occurred. That's what I meant.
I completely forgot that Germany had a 3 tiered election system at that time its intresting that you are one of the few that talk about the pre ww1 german state.
The election for the Reichstag on a federal level from 1871 to 1918 was one of the most progressiv ones in Europe. It only laked the votings right for women. It was far ahead of those in the UK or the Netherlands f.e. The states were able to chose their own election laws for their state parliaments. And Prussia had the unfairest of them all.
what an impressive documentary, I wish people knew more of Stresemann and his remarkable efforts up until his death, he was the one who fixed Germany's image. Had he lived longer, perhaps the second ww could have been prevented.
He would spend some time in Nurenberg in 1945-46 instead of Ribbentrop. Stasemann was big aficionado of Soviet-German wild geopolitical love so we would learn about many Stasemann- Molotov treaties😊.
Can you make a biography about ernst thälmann as well, a lot of leader seem to know about the KPD leader of the period but not a lot of his own life in general.
From the way this doc describes this guy one gets the impression the writer has a low impression of Weimar pols generally for him to be called the greatest of the Republic.
It’s strange how influential politicians of the twenties, like Poincaree, or Brown in Preussen, or Streesemann had their greatest accomplishments acting against their interests.
I think the project of looking at Stresemann worked, he's definitely an interesting figure. I would be interested to see some looks at similar, if less peaceful figures, who contributed to the leadup to the Great War.
Fantastic video, I did not realise that streseman was an imperialist and revanchist. It has somewhat changed my opinion of him, though still he is a fantastic diplomat who I admire.
As for Polish-German relations, it was Poland's turn to accommodate Germany. Poland did the same after WWI as Russia did with Ukraine, sending troublemakers to use the weakness of a neighbor to destabilize the situation and take over the territory of another nation. The fact also remains that in Silesia and West Prussia, the Poles were Migrants who came during the age of industrialization to work in German factories! Only Poznan and parts of Southern-West-Prussia were Polish-majority regions!
SIR MANTEE!!!! You did it again!!!! The Kellog Briand Treaty which Stresemann signed showed how hypocritical all the signers were to this very day. The explaining of 1923 is superb. Could Sir Manatee explain the Konto 5 slush fund??????
I really enjoyed the video. Such bigraphies could really be interesting, even though that might encourage the "History of the Big Men", which I believe is not really en vogue anymore. Also I love Stresemann, the silly little egghead :D
Stresemann couldn't have held the grand coalition because the SDP crippled themselves. They had voted for cuts for so long they eroded their base and couldn't keep it up any longer, but were fundamentally opposed to class struggle so couldn't do anything beyond abstaining while increasingly far right governments ruled by decree. He wouldn't have played a functionally different role from Brüning.
37:16 Frederick the Great, Bismarck, Strasemann.... Why most of great German diplomats are associated with agressive wars or preparations to wars. One would wonder... Discussing “the German problem” in her memoirs, Thatcher wrote: “I do not believe in collective guilt… But I do believe in national character.”
the true German problem was and is that all her neighbours wanted to steal her land, her wealth, her populations... look at the map today - strangely there are German minorities in all other countries, but not vice versa....
Manatee I was wondering would you consider doing a video on hjalmar schacht ? He's got a very interesting story from his work in Belgium in ww1 to fighting hyperinflation in the weimar Republic to the mefo bills his imprisonment trial and work iran and Indonesia
It seems that in the end all he accomplished was to make the nazis road to war as easy and comfortable as can be. The Polish border was still an open sore, the industrial economy was strong enough allow rearmament, the financial market too fragile to survive a crash out, extreme nationalism was a total blind spot, and his rehabilitation of the country's international reputation made it more difficult to argue for decisive action against the next regime. While Stresemann isn't fuly responsible for all of these, he managed to brew up the perfect storm of conditions for Hitler to have initial success.
it´s exactly the other way round - the unwillingness of the Entente powers to accept Germany as an equal partner even after all the concessions by Stresemann paved the way for the radicals - the fight against the Young plan (which in reality was a HUGE financial plundering of Germany for generations, while ignoring completely Germanys self-defense interests against an aggressive Poland) gave the first success to the NSDAP in the elections. A controlled and moderate re-armament of Germany and the prospect of a peaceful, internationally settled unification with Austria (a topic that Manatee completely left out) would have brought the Weimar Republic the desperately needed success....
Fascinating such a virulent nationalist became such an internationalist and the greatest figure of the republic. Also, very important point that what Stresemann did mattered a lot more than what he thought internally.
The first time I heard about Gustav Stressemann is that he, Fredricht Ebert and some third guy one talks about pretty much carried german democracy on their backs by some British GuyBloke.
He reminds me of our late senator, Corneliu Coposu. He was a political activist who was imprisoned and spied by the communist regime. And after became the leader of the opposition and against former communist politicians. Had he lived a bit longer he may have had a chance to become president, but alas that was not meant to be since he died in 1995. He is still seen by many romanians as one of the most famous anti-communist and pro-democracy figures
Not a Patreon member, but someone should do a video on August Bebel. Overall an intersting guy, predicted the World War I in his pamplet ("Nicht stehendes Heer sondern Volkswehr!"), sort of advocaded for legalization of homosexuality in germany) etc.
It was cool to learn more about this relatively obscure historical figure with a great impact but on the matter of your videos, I think what differentiates you is your coverage of obscure pre-Great War historical topics from a historical-materialist lens. There are a thousand other channels who do Biographies and Great Man Histories.
27:01 ...return to strict kindness... How naive Briand was thinking that Germany would leave France alone at the price of Poland and CzechoSlovakia. Pathetic
“Stresemann was a great man. He did more for Germany than any other man could have done. We could not have done any better than Stresemann.” - Joseph Goebbels
29:35 "theft of Prussian provinces".... Now when Bonn Republik moved eastward to Berlin-again-Republik history lessons for Germans stiil need to be repeated. So neatly called "Prussian acquisitions" of 1772 and 1795 in the East were lands belonging to Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. And Treaty of Versailles just reversed most of Prussian annexations. Prussia created "Polish problem" itself by grabbing those lands.
It seems a bit pompous to accuse Stresemann of not settling affairs with Poland. The sort of sanctimonious statement that a modern liberal like Sir Manatee would make about a politician of the early 20th century. Germany was a profoundly conservative and patriotic nation in the 1920s - the issue of the eastern border was greatly upsetting to not only Prussian Junkers but to the population as a whole. Giving up on the issue would have meant political suicide for any party, of the left or right.
call me a liberal one more time Besides, yes it's perfectly reasonably to just hold a grudge and play the insulted liver sausage for all eternity. There was no big strategy behind it, it would have been better for everyone to simply recognise the new borders and move on. Poland didn't collapse on its own and it wasn't going to give up its land. The only way to redeem it was by going to war and we all know how that ended: It resulted in the destruction of both countries, the redrawing of the German-Polish border and the mass expulsion of everyone that lived east of the Oder-Neiße rivers. That is all you'll get for being a "profoundly conservative and patriotic nation".
Wow. Is the old Sir Manatee back? The one who only tells the story and doesn't let his personal opinions get out too much? If he is back, then I am so happy.
Pretty much the whole video is politically praising Streseman. Just because you agree with his personal views this time doesn't mean they're not in the video.
Here before the Papenbots arrive
What are those?
They're not "Papenbots," they're "Von Papenbots!"
@@adambadam4870 look at the bottom of this comment section and you’ll find one. Not sure why they exist and what they’re supposed to do though.
What are babel-bots?
The fact that they exist boggles the mind
Gustav Stressemann
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more like 50-50
@@stlemur bro has not watched history w hilbert :,)
@@louisayers3477 somebody gets it ;)
@@louisayers3477 wikipeida ass channel
Stresemann but ok...
Learning about Weimar in the 1920s is truly tragic, because it seemed like things were going to work out well. There's a point in Richard Evan's Third Reich Trilogy where he describes Stresemann's reforms and the political/economic outlook in 1929, saying that things were looking better and better - and then the stock market crashed.
Post Great Depression Schizophenia. There were plenty of people who had already realized that Versailles was nothing but a ceasefire. It couldve been prevented but polticians such as Stresemen only made it more likely instead of preventing it.
@@christophmaier4397 meh. the main reason Versailles was a cease-fire was because it did nothing to pacify German militarism
@@christophmaier4397So what is your solution to that?
@@theotherohlourdespadua1131 weimar germany was failed from the start. The Entente tried to install parliamentary democracy in a nation that wasnt even a nation. The German Empire had become a military dictatorship while it had been a dictatorship of the prussian bureaucracy before. You cannot make democracy appear simply by saying so. Weimar is called Weimar because it was so unstable that the government had to move from Berlin to Weimar. It was born amidst reactionary death squads shooting civilians. That cannot be the foundation of a stable nation. It ran on the fumes of the empowered liberals who had been fighting and compromising with radicals since 1918. The solution is not to impose an ideal of a system on an entity that isnt fit for it.
he died, stock market crashes, what else?
17:20 The story of the Weimar Republic in a nutshell. A state which at all times gleefully sought the violent eradication of working class radicalism, yet always treated the reactionary right with restraint and a velvet soft touch, even when it was outspoken in it's contempt for the democracy Weimar claimed to stand for.
It reminds us so much of what we currently could see in the West...
Always the liberals and socialdemocrats are just fascists with masks.
Blind on the right eye.
You have to remember, these reactionary rightwing elements are also overwhelmingly comprised of hardened WW1 veterans and I doubt the Weimar government would want to pick a fight with those guys
Capital and its puppets in power has always hated the left, tolerated and in most cases supported the right.
I LOVED how it blitzed through his childhood. Most biographies you can skip the childhood and miss nothing. At best they say "It strengthen his/her work ethic"
who cares about children anyway
@SirManateee once you see Nixon's childhood and how he was inspired by his brother cause he didn't survive childhood... that is the exact same child story for every other historical figure. Elvis has a similar story with his twin that was never born. And I was born in 83, so i had my fair share of OLD TIMER old pre-technology stories. Kinda the reason why ppl were always so crabby back in the day though
Very cool to hear about some of the people who made an effort to try and make the Weimar Republic work. It’s been portrayed as this doomed project with very little nuance, like a sad intermission between the wars.
38:20 OH my photographers eye loves this photo. The subject is framed in the center prominently, it’s well lit, the less important subjects are either not facing the camera or moving as to distort their face, only the subject we care about is focused and he’s right in the center. I love this image
Don't forget the contrast and framing too!
It is a fantastic picture, truly
One of your best videos yet. You are becoming one of my favourite Historians here on RUclips
I must say its sort of ironic to see your quality of Video improve overall and your style of telling history becomming more investing, but the RUclips algorythm seems to dislike it. Honestly think you deserve more atention, great Video always like to see more
Sir Manatee! Please keep coming with more videos like this. Your explanation about riveting subjects are the best of the best! The Viewer benefits from your skill and knowledge.
A remarkable and fascinating individual so much potential that existed for Germany and the world. At that time I really think Streseman is the example every politician and diplomat should strive to be today.
Stresemann has always fascinated me, what a brave and tenacious dude in an unbelievably dangerous and difficult time. Such a tragedy that the state he was trying to consolidate was so short lived
"Brave" in which aspect? He was an effective diplomat yet Treaty of Locarno and secret re-militarisation with Soviets set clear direction revisions that German state envisioned - regardless whether it would be "fully democratic" or fully national-socialist.
Red Autumn Social Democracy players represent.
Not gonna lie, I really didn’t know or give a shit about the Weimar Republic before like 1932 before playing that game and it’s sucked me in.
Great Video Sir Manatee! Really love seeing this side of history of my country
Streseman reminds me a lot of the Japanese conservatives who held power in the post-war decades (like Yoshida Shigeru, Ikeda Hayato, etc), who were right-wing nationalists at heart but understood that Japan can only be rejuvenated through economic growth and participation in the new world system
A thesis on the bottled bear industry in Berlin 😂 possibly one the most German ideas I've heard for a thesis paper 35:35 "Rason" 😨
Hello from sunny Cape Town! Such a pleasure watching these videos
Another amazing video Sir Manatee. One wonders if Stressemann would be able to stand up against nazism, should he had been still alive in the 30s of the past century.
Great stuff! A very well organized video with a clear structure front to back. 🙏 Thank you for making it!
You can't help but wonder, if Stresemann living longer would have changed anything at all... Him dying mere days before the stock market crash of 1929 and before the major rise of the NSD@P kind of freezes all his achievements in amber.
Glad you enjoyed it! :D
It could be argued that his early death preserved his legacy. I can't imagine how he'd have reacted to seeing his work come crashing down.
Thing is, Brunning was actually on the path to restoring the German economy. Unfortunately, his policies weren't allowed to mature. I can't imagine Stresemann would have fared much better.
if only he didn't die...
I am sure maybe WW2 would be averted somehow. Maybe we would have a different world outlook today
@Napolean46 fuck yeah, Stresseman is the last hope for the Republik
@@oooshafiqooo I am essentially agreeing with you. I don't know why you insult me. I said he was best hope for German republic. If he didn't die maybe nazis wouldn't have come into power and eventually WW2 would not have occurred. That's what I meant.
He was taken from us too soon
@@SirManateee very true comrade. He was a pragmatic and so smart.
Stresaman mentioned!! What the hell is a bad economic miracle 🗣
I completely forgot that Germany had a 3 tiered election system at that time its intresting that you are one of the few that talk about the pre ww1 german state.
Not in all of Germany, only for the Prussian House of Representatives ;)
@@SirManateee ... right because why should it be simple ^^
The election for the Reichstag on a federal level from 1871 to 1918 was one of the most progressiv ones in Europe. It only laked the votings right for women. It was far ahead of those in the UK or the Netherlands f.e.
The states were able to chose their own election laws for their state parliaments. And Prussia had the unfairest of them all.
@@stirbjoernwesterhever6223 By comparison, the UK allowed all men equal voting rights by 1925
Just had this guy in my History lessons, very useful for my Abitur this year, thanks.
Viel Erfolg! :D
The busy bee of Weimar's foreign policy! 😊🐝 Can't wait to watch this!
See you in 2 years
Stressemann: The enigma child of Liberalism and Machiavellianism
Mantee uploads, I'm happy.
What a sober minded man. A statesman indeed!
Stresemann was the best. I really enjoyed this video.
Never heard of this guy, great video
Another banger
And a "banger" it was, too!! Greatly enjoyed this video presentation.
Thanks :)
Notification squad here to witness another banger 🤩
First!
indeed
what an impressive documentary, I wish people knew more of Stresemann and his remarkable efforts up until his death, he was the one who fixed Germany's image. Had he lived longer, perhaps the second ww could have been prevented.
Thank you, such an interesting post.
4 views in 4 minutes…FIRE 🔥
I sometimes wonder how the world would have looked if Stresemann hadn't died so early.
He would spend some time in Nurenberg in 1945-46 instead of Ribbentrop. Stasemann was big aficionado of Soviet-German wild geopolitical love so we would learn about many Stasemann- Molotov treaties😊.
Can you make a biography about ernst thälmann as well, a lot of leader seem to know about the KPD leader of the period but not a lot of his own life in general.
uuuuh i like that
@@SirManateee fantastic, awaiting the day of the video, keep up the good work as always and freut mich und danke schön für die video
Schöne Doku 👍
From the way this doc describes this guy one gets the impression the writer has a low impression of Weimar pols generally for him to be called the greatest of the Republic.
It’s strange how influential politicians of the twenties, like Poincaree, or Brown in Preussen, or Streesemann had their greatest accomplishments acting against their interests.
I think the project of looking at Stresemann worked, he's definitely an interesting figure. I would be interested to see some looks at similar, if less peaceful figures, who contributed to the leadup to the Great War.
Fantastic video, I did not realise that streseman was an imperialist and revanchist.
It has somewhat changed my opinion of him, though still he is a fantastic diplomat who I admire.
This is SO GOOD
Best birthday gift ever for a weimar enthusiast
As for Polish-German relations, it was Poland's turn to accommodate Germany. Poland did the same after WWI as Russia did with Ukraine, sending troublemakers to use the weakness of a neighbor to destabilize the situation and take over the territory of another nation. The fact also remains that in Silesia and West Prussia, the Poles were Migrants who came during the age of industrialization to work in German factories! Only Poznan and parts of Southern-West-Prussia were Polish-majority regions!
ok buddy, relax
@@ik3a141 Just facts
Great vide, didnt know much about him before
Very interesting, as a Frenchman I had never heard of him before
If Streseman wasnt ill mayve he could have saved my country drom the Nazis
Chadstav Chadmann
SIR MANTEE!!!! You did it again!!!! The Kellog Briand Treaty which Stresemann signed showed how hypocritical all the signers were to this very day. The explaining of 1923 is superb. Could Sir Manatee explain the Konto 5 slush fund??????
I really enjoyed the video. Such bigraphies could really be interesting, even though that might encourage the "History of the Big Men", which I believe is not really en vogue anymore.
Also I love Stresemann, the silly little egghead :D
Stresemann couldn't have held the grand coalition because the SDP crippled themselves. They had voted for cuts for so long they eroded their base and couldn't keep it up any longer, but were fundamentally opposed to class struggle so couldn't do anything beyond abstaining while increasingly far right governments ruled by decree. He wouldn't have played a functionally different role from Brüning.
Great video
What is the outro song?
Kalinka, instrumental version
Best way to start a Monday
37:16 Frederick the Great, Bismarck, Strasemann.... Why most of great German diplomats are associated with agressive wars or preparations to wars. One would wonder...
Discussing “the German problem” in her memoirs, Thatcher wrote: “I do not believe in collective guilt… But I do believe in national character.”
you mean Louis XIV , Napoleon, all British statesmen.....?
the true German problem was and is that all her neighbours wanted to steal her land, her wealth, her populations... look at the map today - strangely there are German minorities in all other countries, but not vice versa....
Context matters
Also, britain invaded Egypt in 1956 together with France. Tatcher herself went to War
👏👏👏👏 Great Video
Oh... Ich wollte schon lange mal wissen was genau mit dem Typen abgeht. Perfeket, danke for uploading :)
Cringe
? What. @@gustavojoaquin_arch
Stressman! Master of diplomacy.
Manatee I was wondering would you consider doing a video on hjalmar schacht ? He's got a very interesting story from his work in Belgium in ww1 to fighting hyperinflation in the weimar Republic to the mefo bills his imprisonment trial and work iran and Indonesia
Irrelevant, aber...
East frisia mentioned 🎉
Darauf erstmal 'ne Tasse Tee ;)
I would like to see more of these Biographies! There were so many noteworthy politicians like Otto Braun, Kurt von Schleicher, Walther Rathenau etc.
Schlagt tot den Walther Rathenau, etc, etc.
Lore of Gustav Stresemann: A Biography momentum 100
Democratic, Patriotic, Monarchist. I miss guys like him
What’s the classical music playing at the end of the video? I recognize but can’t place it and it’s driving me insane
Specifically during the conclusion
I think it's Vlatava from Má Vlast by Smetana
@@karenschulz5457 that’s the one, thank you!
It seems that in the end all he accomplished was to make the nazis road to war as easy and comfortable as can be. The Polish border was still an open sore, the industrial economy was strong enough allow rearmament, the financial market too fragile to survive a crash out, extreme nationalism was a total blind spot, and his rehabilitation of the country's international reputation made it more difficult to argue for decisive action against the next regime. While Stresemann isn't fuly responsible for all of these, he managed to brew up the perfect storm of conditions for Hitler to have initial success.
It's a little absurd how much praise this right wing imperialist gets for kicking the can down the road and paving the way for the Nazis
it´s exactly the other way round - the unwillingness of the Entente powers to accept Germany as an equal partner even after all the concessions by Stresemann paved the way for the radicals - the fight against the Young plan (which in reality was a HUGE financial plundering of Germany for generations, while ignoring completely Germanys self-defense interests against an aggressive Poland) gave the first success to the NSDAP in the elections. A controlled and moderate re-armament of Germany and the prospect of a peaceful, internationally settled unification with Austria (a topic that Manatee completely left out) would have brought the Weimar Republic the desperately needed success....
???
I wish this had German subtitles
nothing pertinent to add.
merely greasing the gears of supplication for the algo-deities of the tube'y'all.
Fascinating such a virulent nationalist became such an internationalist and the greatest figure of the republic. Also, very important point that what Stresemann did mattered a lot more than what he thought internally.
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The first time I heard about Gustav Stressemann is that he, Fredricht Ebert and some third guy one talks about pretty much carried german democracy on their backs by some British GuyBloke.
He reminds me of our late senator, Corneliu Coposu. He was a political activist who was imprisoned and spied by the communist regime. And after became the leader of the opposition and against former communist politicians.
Had he lived a bit longer he may have had a chance to become president, but alas that was not meant to be since he died in 1995. He is still seen by many romanians as one of the most famous anti-communist and pro-democracy figures
Not a Patreon member, but someone should do a video on August Bebel. Overall an intersting guy, predicted the World War I in his pamplet ("Nicht stehendes Heer sondern Volkswehr!"), sort of advocaded for legalization of homosexuality in germany) etc.
That is a phenomenal idea, thank you! :D
Would love a video o makhno and Makhnovshchina!
It was cool to learn more about this relatively obscure historical figure with a great impact but on the matter of your videos, I think what differentiates you is your coverage of obscure pre-Great War historical topics from a historical-materialist lens. There are a thousand other channels who do Biographies and Great Man Histories.
27:01 ...return to strict kindness... How naive Briand was thinking that Germany would leave France alone at the price of Poland and CzechoSlovakia. Pathetic
Polish seething as always
Only though centennial history do you learn about heroes like Stresemann, or how Lenin was practically a figurehead and Trotsky did most of the work
Here before the Ebert Revisionists arrive
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0:07 köpenicker sounds like a slur lol. Like if Danes were stereotyped as thieves that’s what Germans would call them lol
To my American ears trained in English, that is immediately apparent to me.
@ I’m glad I’m not the only one
“Stresemann was a great man. He did more for Germany than any other man could have done. We could not have done any better than Stresemann.” - Joseph Goebbels
Strasemann even fooled Nobel Prize judges presenting himself to the world as the man of peace and reconciliation.😂
29:35 "theft of Prussian provinces".... Now when Bonn Republik moved eastward to Berlin-again-Republik history lessons for Germans stiil need to be repeated. So neatly called "Prussian acquisitions" of 1772 and 1795 in the East were lands belonging to Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. And Treaty of Versailles just reversed most of Prussian annexations. Prussia created "Polish problem" itself by grabbing those lands.
First
Nuh uh
What is this, 2008?
One of my role models 😂
me who always thaught that titler was behind germany's success !
So when are you going to marry him?
Next Tuesday
@@SirManateee Congratulations on your marriage, SirManateee
It seems a bit pompous to accuse Stresemann of not settling affairs with Poland. The sort of sanctimonious statement that a modern liberal like Sir Manatee would make about a politician of the early 20th century. Germany was a profoundly conservative and patriotic nation in the 1920s - the issue of the eastern border was greatly upsetting to not only Prussian Junkers but to the population as a whole. Giving up on the issue would have meant political suicide for any party, of the left or right.
Revisionist drivel
call me a liberal one more time
Besides, yes it's perfectly reasonably to just hold a grudge and play the insulted liver sausage for all eternity. There was no big strategy behind it, it would have been better for everyone to simply recognise the new borders and move on. Poland didn't collapse on its own and it wasn't going to give up its land. The only way to redeem it was by going to war and we all know how that ended: It resulted in the destruction of both countries, the redrawing of the German-Polish border and the mass expulsion of everyone that lived east of the Oder-Neiße rivers. That is all you'll get for being a "profoundly conservative and patriotic nation".
@@tancreddehauteville764 revisionist drivel
@@tancreddehauteville764 revisionist drivel
@@tancreddehauteville764 revisionist drivel
Sir Manatee, I'm curious whether you are Polish or German?
He's german
Middle of the road Zentrum Germany to rule central Europe (Mitteleuropa). Things that could've been...
Soviet Hegemony over Europe?
souns like a nightmare
A traitor to germany in my humble opinion.
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Nazis sind Volksverräter und Schande der Nation
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Wow. Is the old Sir Manatee back? The one who only tells the story and doesn't let his personal opinions get out too much? If he is back, then I am so happy.
When has he let his personal opinions get out too much? If anything, this is the video where I've seen him show the most subjective opinion
Pretty much the whole video is politically praising Streseman. Just because you agree with his personal views this time doesn't mean they're not in the video.
FRANZ VON PAPEN WAS THE BEST
Fuck him the only good thing he did was to forcibly let the Kaiser abdicate.
Von Papen was a bootlicker and shall find the same end as all authoritarians.
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...received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1926, ha...and Hitler was .... Time Magazine The Man of the Year in 1938.
Great video