23:35 Hungary did not want any piece of Poland in 1939. Actually, when Adolf Hitler asked Miklós Horthy if Germany could use the Hungarian railway system to invade Poland, Horthy said that they will sooner blow up their railway tunnel rather than get involved in attacking Poland.
Hungary was even more hungry to steal a piece of Czechoslovakia (Slovakia now) than Germans were. Just because majority of inhabitants were Hungarians. Same as Germans in Sudetland.
Lafayette was one of the architects of the Terror in my country, the teacher might be smart and interesting but I still don't like Lafayette and where it came from. I said it !😊
Skip to 6:50 minutes. An interesting story of the governments and people of Europe leading up to WW2, told with the ease and depth of someone who knows his subject . Minor video and audio issues :-)
The implementation of the Idea and the "roots" to build up an army for "Bewegungskrieg" and therefore inventing the Panzerdivisions goes back to the 1920 with Hans von Seeckt in command. It didn´t start in 35 under AH. There is sometimes a bit much lack of precision in his lesson, but it is entertaining.
Reminds me of the best teacher I ever had . . .also in history. Engaging, demonstrative, a wonderful story teller bringing the dynamics of personality to explain history. I can't stop watching him. Simply spell binding. Just makes me remember why I was so very fascinated by history.
Sadly, the fact that 'history' is ignored and neglected in my country's education curriculum! Peoples elected ignorance of how the Second World War formulated staggers me, especially when so many events of today seem to be leading us to such nationalism, populism of oligarchs, regimes, supported by so-called democracies.....the deliberate diluting of democratic processes by so-called liberal governments/Prime Ministers and Presidents.......😔
Despite the pressure of Berlin the Kingdom of Hungary did not contribute to the German aggression on Poland in September 1939, but rather later secretly supported the evacuation of Polish soldiers to France.
This is one of those moments of 'epiphany' that makes this one of the most outstanding lectures I have ever heard. To understand any of the sciences you need the thread of 'nuclear physics'. In my future this will be my thread for the understanding of the humanities, and well beyond the narrow confines of 'modern' history. Thank you Professor Weiner.
When I write the history of the WAR OF THE 20TH CENTURY, no more first or second world wars, it was all one big mélange of Imperialist power centers. I will refer to the Long War as the War of the Eight Empires. The motive forces of this long war were the eternal striving of regional hegemonies for more and more power and wealth. One set of empires lost the struggle and others mainly the USA and Soviets, which became the overweening empires of the second half of the 20th century, won enhanced power. The USA became power drunk, fortunately another great empire is rising and is changing the imperial power equation. Hopefully the imperial forces will not fight in a time of nuclear capabilities, but i would not bet on it.
I would have liked him to spend some more time on the people who DID see Hitler for who he was, specifically Churchill from the mid-1930s, and Roosevelt right from the beginning. I would have liked him to have discussed Roosevelt more overall, in fact, ans the dichotomy between him and Hitler. He was Hitler's most dangerous enemy right from the beginning - one that could not be invaded or defeated, and the one with the most resources.
Whoever thinks the Jews killed God is mistaken, in my opinion. Some people who professed to be Jewish killed the Jewish Messiah, but they didn't kill God. One cannot kill God. Jesus was given authority to take back His life and was alive again in three days.
@@stevenrowlandson4258 True ! As Hitler was FINANCED by the USA and the Rothchild Banking Empire of Europe ! Read Prof. ANTONY SUTTON's , " WALL ST. and the RISE of HITLER ! 1 of 3 books dealing with the powers of world finance and industrial monopoly !
Not to sound like I'm defending this man's perspective, but I was wondering if anyone could source anything that contradicts what Professor Weiner says? I only ask because I'm and amateur historian focusing on WW2. That being said Weiner's interpretation follows the way my understanding of the causes of WW2, however if there are sources that contradict this I would like see this myself and decide if these contradictions have merit.
@@Stahlgewitter David Irving is a Holocaust denier bro. "There is a whole chain of evidence from 1938 right through to October 1943, possibly even later, indicating that Hitler was completely in the dark about anything that may have been going on." This is the David Irving that you're so much shilling for.
@@Stahlgewitter Don’t read David Irving as he has been flat out rejected by other historians and found guilty in court for publishing false information.
I simply wanted to make a distinction between the "antisemitism" of pre-Nazi Germany and the "antisemitism" of Nazi Germany. While they did tap into older more conventional grievances involving the Jews, the Nazis were mainly concerned with what they saw as racial pollution of the German[ic] race. These were essentially two different rationales for opposing Jewish presence in German society, although there was a lot of overlap...
Communism and economics were the main motivating factors. "Racial purification" was the least of it. There were still Jews that were serving prominent roles in the Nazi power structure, and within the military
23:36 wrong from the basis -> if Hungary wanted part of any other state, it would be mainly Romania, not Poland. Both countries (Poland and Hungary) had utmost perfect relations.
@@ziblot1235 That was too harsh. Many commentators are amateurs at best. Why lash out at people. Certainly it can’t be a positive experience for you. Be kind to others and yourself. Life is good.
@@larryg5698 Not well said at all, Larry. Eksteins' "Rites of Spring" is about the consciousness of the entire 20th Century, or "the long 19th Century" in Eksteins' words. If it's about any particular war, that would be WWI, seen as a coda to a comparatively peaceful century since the Napoleonic Wars. The excellent book "Rites of Spring" takes its title from Stravinsky's ballet "The Rite of Spring."
Appreciate the class he is teaching but much of this lecture is a very very simplified view of Europe and the causes of WW2. Noticeable that there is no reference to Professor Ian Kershaw’s two volumes on Hitler.
You don't need Kershaw to understand. What really gives new points of view is the book of Ernst Hanfstaengl "White House and Brown House" Hitlers rise to power was possible only, because he had help from all over the world.
It's not even remotely a complete answer. The ideas of fascism were certainly much more popular after WW1 than they would have been hadn't WW1 been the bloody mess that it was. Nevertheless, fascists would have eventually gained power in major states anyway.
I take issue with the statement that western Europe was materially better off and living at its highest ever standards. There was a world depression going on and SO many people lived in abject poverty that was virtually indistinguishable from (in Britain) the Victorian era.
world history is as important as U.S. history. so that Americans will know more about the world...and not just America alone. a good chance to study about Europe..
Are a lot of college lectures like this? I doubt that a lot professors have such an outgoing attitude like this one. I'm a soon to be senior in high school please forgive me for my ignorance!
Michael, I was fortunate to have great professors and instructors. They were all passionate about teaching. The lectures were this style. Some would display photos on the SMART Board while some would simply lecture. But they had one thing in common: they kept my attention. I only had one professor that I could not stand. The dude was about 78, gave power points out and read straight from the slides for 3 straight hours.
Seeing as this post is 6 years old I'm assuming you're out of college now; hope you found the good profs, but I assume you know now that like any profession there are the good, the mediocre, the bad and the disinterested. Also, your college experience is obviously dependent on what type of Uni you went to. I went Michigan State stating fall 2002 and graduating in fall semester 2007. And as a large research institution the profs there researched first, taught second. Many of my best instructors were not even profs but grad students. I also spent a semester at Kalamazoo College which is very very different. Compared to MSU it is tiny and the profs there teach first and foremost. So you get what you'd typically expect; smaller classes, more office hours etc. So if I could write to you 6 years ago I'd say what professor you get is most dependent on the type of school you go to. Small liberal arts schools with 1,000 undergrads and major research universities with 50,000 undergrads are just so different their bachelor's degrees should almost be called something different from one another
@William Jones What type of school did you go to? I'm curious because I went to Michigan State from fall of 2002 until graduating in fall 2007 but also spent a summer term at Kalamazoo College. MSU had 50,000+ undergrads, and K-College I believe had something like 1,000-1,500 and the average undergrad course could not be more different. At MSU you'd have classes with 200 kids and at K I had classes with fewer than 10. (Although summer course are almost always smaller)
I had 3 Nobel Laureates teaching freshman chemistry when I was an undergrad. Yes, some professors are QUITE passionate about their subjects! Not all...
Dr Weiner seems like the kind of professor I would love to have lunch with and discuss various history issues. We would not agree on everything which would only make our discussion more interesting. I pray he has a long and happy retirement.
The financing gloss over is ridiculous, he had to fire his economic adviser because he refused to spend more on the military, he had to stop building the Autobahn, just to build the Siegfried Line. Then he had to take over Czechoslovakia to seize the gold reserves and the modern arms factories, inflation was starting to climb again. jeez! He had boxed himself into a corner he knew his takeover of Central Europe was pure plunder. It worked until his Russia blunder. No mention of the German wiretaps of the other embassies or the telephone lines where Hitler knew what the leaders were saying to each other.
There was no Russian blunder. Nazi's had just spread them self too thin Western Europe, North Africa and to the east. The Luftwaffe could not engage on that many fronts. Even if they did not enter Russia they still would have lost due to the fact they could not compete in North Africa and western Europe and the mediterranean. And they ran out of fuel as they had no oil reserves.
how was everyone doing so well economically going into ww2 sorry i think im missing something here i have to go back and review this again this was said at the 11 12 minute mark ill come back again tomorrow im not understanding that
The professor knows very little of Europe and even its geography. His claim that Hungary wanted a part of Poland is absurd. He also uses quotes completly out of context.
@@mareklakomski2256 Thanks. Yeah. I heard it myself after i posted my question. I understand Hungary and Poland get along better than maybe any two countries on Earth. So I imagine he got Poland and Chekoslovokia mixed up. I think every country bordering Chekaslavakia waa guilty of taking a piece of it once Germany commited to taking over t rest of it beyond just the Sudatenland.
Good lecture. A few minor points. 1. It's true that Congress was still investigating World Wat I war profiteering and the so-called 'merchants of death', It is important to point out that never found any connection between the wars and the industrialists. And that it was industrialists who played a key role in saving Western Civilization during World War II. Contrary to what the Marxist professors are telling our kids, capitalists do no seek war for the simple reason that it is bad for business. 2. It is also important to point out that President Roosevelt from the beginning criticized Hitler and the NAZIs.
Let's face some industrial facts. Germany used just 30% of their munition production targeting land war. 58% went on air war and 12% for sea war. Finally just 30% of their munition production went to Eastern Front needs. Germany used in 1943 some 4 billion RM for concrete shelter construction, 80% of it because Allied bombing campaign. The value of it was about cost of 40 000 panzers, assault guns, self propelled guns. Eastern Front was not priority for German munition production.
@Jenny Rebecca----- Hitler was quoted as saying of the Soviet Union, "Kick the door in and the whole rotten structure will collapse". He predicted victory in 6 weeks. His faith endured all the way to Stalingrad, then he wet his pants in earnest. A megalomaniac, he had thought he was King Canute, protected by Providence. He was said to be an evil genius. Yes, a genius in many instances, but based on what transpired, the other side of the coin indicates his co-existent state of being incredibly stupid.
The brutality of the Germans was second to none during the war. Their crimes against the Soviet peasants, Jews, Polish and Czech were unmatched in human history. To say that it was the work of just a few SS men is disingenuous. They perpetrated 5 wars since 1850 and their "racist" leanings was merely catalyzed by Hitler. One theory on why the Germans with their warring mindset suddenly went quiet after WWII postulates that nearly all of the men with a violent genome were obliterated during the war. Overall, Germany paid a much lesser price for the Armageddon they created. It is unthinkable to imagine what the plight of the occupied peoples might have been had Hitler won the war. Several thousand German POW's did starve after surrender. There were no buildings left to house them, they had been destroyed during the war. The USA was sending food to England, Russia, France, Belgium, Holland, China and other far east countries. Americans at home were rationed on food items. America simply did not have the food to feed them, our own military came first. A sad fact but they brought it on themselves. There was not any food aid sent from European countries? that is an outright lie. They didn't have it to send. Germany had already stripped their countries of everything including food and sent it back to Germany. France and Belgium wouldn't have pissed in any Germans ear if their brains were on fire. Both countries had bee occupied and brutalized by Nazi Germany and had serious food shortages for at least 2 years after the wars end. The Russians did starve German troops that surrendered to them. They treated the Germans exactly the same way they treated Russian POW's Germany starved 2 1/2 million Russian POW's to death out of the 3 million they captured. The Nazis deserved no sympathy. They tortured and murdered 30 million civilians in the countries they occupied in Europe. They voted Hitler and his gang into power and he led them to the very worst ass kicking a country could get and Germany deserved it.
bullshit. Stop watching Khazar Jewish Hollywood films. Read the book HELLSTORM THE DEATH OF NAZI GERMANY 1944-1947 written by the American historian Thomas Goodrich and you will know who did what.
FrancisJoa It is fun to watch the nazi's self destruction...it is even more fun to watch the neo-nazi muslims slaughtering each others on a monstrous scale...CARRY ON, ASSHOLES, KEEP ENTERTAINING US!!!
@@thomasjamison2050 more like typing on cellphone. But to make a log story short. In our entire (1k years) history we never had a conflict with Hungary, ever. However , during the famous three partitions of Poland at the end of xviii century, one of the countries that invaded Poland was Austria, which became Austria-Hungary in mid XIX century. So maybe this guy here is refering to this topic, and mixing with II world war, or simply thinking about Czechoslovakia or Latvia, which is closer to truth, however still it is bid poor service if such information is provided via univeristy lectures. cheers.
He may have accidentally mixed it up with Slovakia. If memory serves, when Czechoslovakia was partioned, Hungary was given a slice of eastern Slovakia.
Talk about the Havaara and the transfer agreement and all this propaganda goes out the window. Standard reinforcement of the standard narative. Nothing new here just a whole lot of baloney
Notice how he shot down the Hitler had no Jewish roots. Maybe the real issue was Hitler’s Jewish cousins didn’t treat him right, and he didn’t like the religious and talented ones too much.
@@Baczkowa78 What he didn't like was how they turned Germans into second-class citizens in their own country and transformed it into an economic and moral sewer.
Well the professor is largely ignorant regarding European affairs between the interwar period, as well forgot to say the national and ethnical tensions and the will of changing the borders was a direct result if the injust treates of WW1. As well, Hungary had no direct territorial claims to Poland, but generally Czechslovakia, Romania and Yugoslavia (blatant mistake of the professor, even if Hungary lost a very tiny territory of Poland, the Polish-Hungarian cordial reslations did no end after nearly thousand years, on the contrary). Not a surprise in general Americans are very ignorant on European history affairs.
The British say to the French do nothing we can appease Germany? We hear that rot again and again. Appeasement does not involve the question of a possibly dangerous neighbour, of rearmament, of public opinion, so where does the term and theory apply here? Simply because the term was applied 1936-39! No appeasement, just the term, so indeed the British said no such thing to France, they said Play the game.
How is that a war with Germany and USSR against Poland if the soviets brought their forces into Poland only AFTER the polish government fled the country. Why the soviets stopped at the Curzon Line, recovering only their territories lost in soviet-polish war in 1920's and not invading national parts of Poland at all? If there was secret protocol dividing Poland - how come German generals wrote in their diaries they didn't know anything about it and soviet advance took them by surprise?
Don't know why someone would think that Jewish people killed God, as if all Jewish people acted in unison. Some Jewish people advocated killing the Jewish Messiah whilst others defended Him. Many Jewish people also decided to change their ways and to follow God by following their Messiah. But one cannot kill God. God's anointed and Babtised can well lay down His life in the ultimate show of sacrifice, as He did. But Jesus Himself said that God has given Him authority to take back His Life, which again, He did. Also, the view that the "Jews" are responsible for the death of Jesus Christ always seems to forget to acknowledge that Jesus is of the line of David and a Jew (of the time) Himself, and that Jesus Himself said that He came for the Jews (even though He allowed non-Jews like me to follow Him). I should work on that myself. I think what I find difficult is that some Jewish people of today does not accept Jesus as Christ. But then, let me take the plank out of my own eye first, and fully accept Jesus as the Christ for myself before I lecture to others.
The professor seems to lean to the left but I guess not so much that he falls over. The communism of Stalin and Mao Zedong competes well in terms of suffering with what Hitler brought about.
@@seanhammer6296 hey Sean you do realise that the peasant nation of Soviet Russia won the space race against the US (although the US landed first on the moon) and that the peasant nation of Communist China will soon overtake, then double, the GDP of the US don't you?
@@seanhammer6296 So? So you have to take into the account what both parties also achieved if you are weighing up the "suffering" caused. Without Soveit Russia, the Nazis would have dominated Europe until the present day - probably the US too. So compute how much "suffering" would have been caused if that was the case.
What would have happened if Germany had not rearmed and Stalin had invaded Germany in the early 1940's and pitted his 20,000 tanks against the 100,000 man army of Germany?
1. Yes, these were occupied soviet territories. 2. It does, technically speaking the country did not exist, so from the point of view of law its not an aggression. 3. High-ranking generals HAVE to know about this protocol - otherwise there is a huge chance of misunderstanding each others' intentions and accidentally starting a war to which neither USSR nor the Reich was ready. 4. Did he not? As far as I know his assassination attempts happened a lot later.
23:35 Hungary did not want any piece of Poland in 1939. Actually, when Adolf Hitler asked Miklós Horthy if Germany could use the Hungarian railway system to invade Poland, Horthy said that they will sooner blow up their railway tunnel rather than get involved in attacking Poland.
Perhaps, Prof. Weiner meant the Slovak Republic that joined the axis in the operation Fall Weiss. Much respect, great lecture!
@@thelememonk I think he meant Czechoslovakia.
Hungary was even more hungry to steal a piece of Czechoslovakia (Slovakia now) than Germans were. Just because majority of inhabitants were Hungarians. Same as Germans in Sudetland.
I love this man’s passion for teaching. I hope his students appreciate it and learned from it.
I don’t know where Lafayette college is located but I hope everyone realizes that a professor this dynamic isn’t at every college.
Easton PA
Pennsylvania
Simply, WW1 and weak diplomacy.
I don't see how that's related to where the college islocated
Lafayette was one of the architects of the Terror in my country, the teacher might be smart and interesting but I still don't like Lafayette and where it came from. I said it !😊
I see that this video is old, I hope the current group of teachers are as gifted and knowledgeable as is this man.
Skip to 6:50 minutes. An interesting story of the governments and people of Europe leading up to WW2, told with the ease and depth of someone who knows his subject . Minor video and audio issues :-)
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Well thought out presentation that is spot on based on my extensive knowledge of European history. Great discussion by the professor
No mention of the Balfour D.?
The implementation of the Idea and the "roots" to build up an army for "Bewegungskrieg" and therefore inventing the Panzerdivisions goes back to the 1920 with Hans von Seeckt in command. It didn´t start in 35 under AH. There is sometimes a bit much lack of precision in his lesson, but it is entertaining.
Feynman was so good at sharing his fascination with physics and nature in such an engaging way
Reminds me of the best teacher I ever had . . .also in history. Engaging, demonstrative, a wonderful story teller bringing the dynamics of personality to explain history. I can't stop watching him. Simply spell binding. Just makes me remember why I was so very fascinated by history.
I will, "Binding". Is there anything else to spell? ( Spellbinding).
aren't you the clever one?
*****
Ask for your money back from your English teacher. "Biased".
Tim Baxter wrong on everything ???? seriously Hitler youth
Sadly, the fact that 'history' is ignored and neglected in my country's education curriculum!
Peoples elected ignorance of how the Second World War formulated staggers me, especially when so many events of today seem to be leading us to such nationalism, populism of oligarchs, regimes, supported by so-called democracies.....the deliberate diluting of democratic processes by so-called liberal governments/Prime Ministers and Presidents.......😔
Prof. Robert Weiner. Head of II Republic of Poland, Jozef Pilsudski passed away 05.12.1935.
Lecture starts at around 14:00.
Despite the pressure of Berlin the Kingdom of Hungary did not contribute to the German aggression on Poland in September 1939, but rather later secretly supported the evacuation of Polish soldiers to France.
Great job. I love how he communicates. Some professors talk like BOOKS. He talks about the subject to the ordinary guy.
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It's a shame I can only find a handful of lectures by this instructor on here.
Please list the authors and titles you referred to
This is one of those moments of 'epiphany' that makes this one of the most outstanding lectures I have ever heard. To understand any of the sciences you need the thread of 'nuclear physics'. In my future this will be my thread for the understanding of the humanities, and well beyond the narrow confines of 'modern' history. Thank you Professor Weiner.
Great presentation.Thanks Prof.Weiner.
Starts at 14 mins in.
Question: what part of Poland did Hungary want and why?
I think he meant Czechoslovakia.
Hungary wanted Slovak southern part of Czechoslovakia.
When I write the history of the WAR OF THE 20TH CENTURY, no more first or second world wars, it was all one big mélange of Imperialist power centers. I will refer to the Long War as the War of the Eight Empires. The motive forces of this long war were the eternal striving of regional hegemonies for more and more power and wealth. One set of empires lost the struggle and others mainly the USA and Soviets, which became the overweening empires of the second half of the 20th century, won enhanced power. The USA became power drunk, fortunately another great empire is rising and is changing the imperial power equation. Hopefully the imperial forces will not fight in a time of nuclear capabilities, but i would not bet on it.
6:59 Indeed, no one wins a war - everybody looses. Also, every soldier that goes into battle die - even those who return home alive.
i have to come back here later today or tomorrow very interesting
I would have liked him to spend some more time on the people who DID see Hitler for who he was, specifically Churchill from the mid-1930s, and Roosevelt right from the beginning. I would have liked him to have discussed Roosevelt more overall, in fact, ans the dichotomy between him and Hitler. He was Hitler's most dangerous enemy right from the beginning - one that could not be invaded or defeated, and the one with the most resources.
Brilliant. Thank you for this
Being blind you can feel how shallow it is.
+Matthias Wewering
I feel the same way. I think I know WW2 history much better than this professor.
+Pan Żarówka A co wiesz czego on nie wie? Gadał półtora godziny. Miał gadać 8 godzin?
Nice lecture despite the audio issues in between.
Everyone sees conflict from one's own perspective....ultimately war itself is the only victor, everyone else loses
Those who provoke and finance wars and revolutions are the victors. Jews and Freemasons. Everyone else is their victims.
Whoever thinks the Jews killed God is mistaken, in my opinion. Some people who professed to be Jewish killed the Jewish Messiah, but they didn't kill God. One cannot kill God. Jesus was given authority to take back His life and was alive again in three days.
@@stevenrowlandson4258 True ! As Hitler was FINANCED by the USA and the Rothchild Banking Empire of Europe ! Read Prof. ANTONY SUTTON's , " WALL ST. and the RISE of HITLER ! 1 of 3 books dealing with the powers of world finance and industrial monopoly !
Interesting but the audio is bad volume gies up and down frustrating
What the hell do the questions have to do with the origins of World War 11?
The lecture is rambling and disjointed.
David Worsley At least we survived eleven world wars.
2 mate.
Reminds me of the saying ( can't remember who offhand) " ..men will value the gifts of a dictator over the empty promises of a republic.
Could anyone kindly write down the titles and names of the authors of the two references he showed at the very onset ?
Barbarism and Civilization by Bernard Wasserstein
The War of the World by Niall Ferguson
Not to sound like I'm defending this man's perspective, but I was wondering if anyone could source anything that contradicts what Professor Weiner says? I only ask because I'm and amateur historian focusing on WW2. That being said Weiner's interpretation follows the way my understanding of the causes of WW2, however if there are sources that contradict this I would like see this myself and decide if these contradictions have merit.
Read David Irving. The most open-minded writer on WW2 possible. So much so that he gets into a lot of trouble from status quo
Read: Tooze - The Wages of Destruction & also Shirer - Rise and Fall of the Third Reich to get two good perspectives.
@@Stahlgewitter David Irving is a Holocaust denier bro.
"There is a whole chain of evidence from 1938 right through to October 1943, possibly even later, indicating that Hitler was completely in the dark about anything that may have been going on."
This is the David Irving that you're so much shilling for.
@@Stahlgewitter David Irving is a fraud
@@Stahlgewitter Don’t read David Irving as he has been flat out rejected by other historians and found guilty in court for publishing false information.
wonderful professor and human being!
European conflicts existed for centuries, if not millenniums. not only just 20 century.
I simply wanted to make a distinction between the "antisemitism" of pre-Nazi Germany and the "antisemitism" of Nazi Germany. While they did tap into older more conventional grievances involving the Jews, the Nazis were mainly concerned with what they saw as racial pollution of the German[ic] race. These were essentially two different rationales for opposing Jewish presence in German society, although there was a lot of overlap...
Communism and economics were the main motivating factors. "Racial purification" was the least of it. There were still Jews that were serving prominent roles in the Nazi power structure, and within the military
Appreciate this was posted
Awesome lecturing/discussion. So scary how similar things have become in the US, in the past 4-5 years, as to how things were in 30s Germany.
Excellent lecture. I'll be watching more from Prof. Robert Weiner.
Hey, Lafayette College
subtitles at 1:23:12
You're welcome...
23:36 wrong from the basis -> if Hungary wanted part of any other state, it would be mainly Romania, not Poland. Both countries (Poland and Hungary) had utmost perfect relations.
Yes, but i think he meant Slovakia.
He is correct about the book The Rites of Spring. One of my favorite reads about the First World War. Excellent!
Wrong war Brainiac.
@@ziblot1235 That was too harsh. Many commentators are amateurs at best. Why lash out at people. Certainly it can’t be a positive experience for you. Be kind to others and yourself. Life is good.
@@davidtrindle6473 well said David
@@larryg5698
Not well said at all, Larry. Eksteins' "Rites of Spring" is about the consciousness of the entire 20th Century, or "the long 19th Century" in Eksteins' words. If it's about any particular war, that would be WWI, seen as a coda to a comparatively peaceful century since the Napoleonic Wars.
The excellent book "Rites of Spring" takes its title from Stravinsky's ballet "The Rite of Spring."
Appreciate the class he is teaching but much of this lecture is a very very simplified view of Europe and the causes of WW2. Noticeable that there is no reference to Professor Ian Kershaw’s two volumes on Hitler.
You don't need Kershaw to understand.
What really gives new points of view is the book of Ernst Hanfstaengl "White House and Brown House"
Hitlers rise to power was possible only, because he had help from all over the world.
His hour and a half lecture didn’t cover everything?
Maybe you should upload your own lecture...?
It is a lecture. You could make seminars of how every single country dealt with the damage after WWI and how it influenced creating WWII.
Does the cameraman work for spectacle makers ?
I agree Prof. Weiner. Rites of Spring is top notch. I had to read for a WWI history class. I also enjoyed the
This is a fantastic lecture. I wish I could take a class with Prof. Weiner.
Japan attacked China in 1933 in Manchuria. China fought Japan 13 years of WW2.
Haha I literally read that as 'Luftwaffe College' in the beginning
@Cason Antonio hahaha
The origins of ww2? Ww1. Its an astonishingly complete answer. It really is.
It's not even remotely a complete answer. The ideas of fascism were certainly much more popular after WW1 than they would have been hadn't WW1 been the bloody mess that it was. Nevertheless, fascists would have eventually gained power in major states anyway.
And you can track back the origins of WWI even further.
Some historians combine WWI and WWII, only separated by roughly 20 years of "peace".
I take issue with the statement that western Europe was materially better off and living at its highest ever standards. There was a world depression going on and SO many people lived in abject poverty that was virtually indistinguishable from (in Britain) the Victorian era.
The second doesn't contradict the first. Europe was an advanced, wealthy society going through a harsh period -- harsh only by its own standards.
The film is Downfall....
world history is as important as U.S. history.
so that Americans will know more about the world...and not just America alone.
a good chance to study about Europe..
Are a lot of college lectures like this? I doubt that a lot professors have such an outgoing attitude like this one. I'm a soon to be senior in high school please forgive me for my ignorance!
Michael, I was fortunate to have great professors and instructors. They were all passionate about teaching. The lectures were this style. Some would display photos on the SMART Board while some would simply lecture. But they had one thing in common: they kept my attention. I only had one professor that I could not stand. The dude was about 78, gave power points out and read straight from the slides for 3 straight hours.
Seeing as this post is 6 years old I'm assuming you're out of college now; hope you found the good profs, but I assume you know now that like any profession there are the good, the mediocre, the bad and the disinterested. Also, your college experience is obviously dependent on what type of Uni you went to. I went Michigan State stating fall 2002 and graduating in fall semester 2007. And as a large research institution the profs there researched first, taught second. Many of my best instructors were not even profs but grad students. I also spent a semester at Kalamazoo College which is very very different. Compared to MSU it is tiny and the profs there teach first and foremost. So you get what you'd typically expect; smaller classes, more office hours etc. So if I could write to you 6 years ago I'd say what professor you get is most dependent on the type of school you go to. Small liberal arts schools with 1,000 undergrads and major research universities with 50,000 undergrads are just so different their bachelor's degrees should almost be called something different from one another
@William Jones What type of school did you go to? I'm curious because I went to Michigan State from fall of 2002 until graduating in fall 2007 but also spent a summer term at Kalamazoo College. MSU had 50,000+ undergrads, and K-College I believe had something like 1,000-1,500 and the average undergrad course could not be more different. At MSU you'd have classes with 200 kids and at K I had classes with fewer than 10. (Although summer course are almost always smaller)
I had 3 Nobel Laureates teaching freshman chemistry when I was an undergrad. Yes, some professors are QUITE passionate about their subjects!
Not all...
@@coachhannah2403 damn, where did you go to school? Freshman chem with 3 Nobel laureates? I wonder what grad school would be like!
Are you saying that threat of war from Europe made the USA build Europe after WW2? If that is the case then it is interesting.
It did help to secure peace in most parts and helped them gain allies against the Soviet Union. It was also a huge market for US goods.
@@NM-ev7pu wrong and pathetic
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i probaly missed something there i watched it too fast was he talking about ww1
Dr Weiner seems like the kind of professor I would love to have lunch with and discuss various history issues. We would not agree on everything which would only make our discussion more interesting. I pray he has a long and happy retirement.
"oh, what are others?"
"I don't know. "
LOL !
kids?
I concur with your point that WW2 began long before the populist 1st September 1939, Prof Weiner!
The financing gloss over is ridiculous, he had to fire his economic adviser because he refused to spend more on the military, he had to stop building the Autobahn, just to build the Siegfried Line. Then he had to take over Czechoslovakia to seize the gold reserves and the modern arms factories, inflation was starting to climb again. jeez! He had boxed himself into a corner he knew his takeover of Central Europe was pure plunder. It worked until his Russia blunder. No mention of the German wiretaps of the other embassies or the telephone lines where Hitler knew what the leaders were saying to each other.
There was no Russian blunder.
Nazi's had just spread them self too thin Western Europe, North Africa and to the east.
The Luftwaffe could not engage on that many fronts. Even if they did not enter Russia they still would have lost due to the fact they could not compete in North Africa and western Europe and the mediterranean.
And they ran out of fuel as they had no oil reserves.
@@bighands69 Go watch David Stahel's lecture about Operation Barbarossa if you are interested in the logistics behind the failed operation.
Others?
how was everyone doing so well economically going into ww2 sorry i think im missing something here i have to go back and review this again this was said at the 11 12 minute mark ill come back again tomorrow im not understanding that
Read - Wages of Destruction.
Переведите на русский язык . А то - непонятно .
The professor knows very little of Europe and even its geography. His claim that Hungary wanted a part of Poland is absurd. He also uses quotes completly out of context.
When does he mention Hungary? I didn't hear it myself.
The big dummy Prof. confused _Poland_ with Czechoslovakia.
@@bobbowie5334 Probably. Hungary and Poland don't share any border, nor did they at the time he was refering tò.
@@paulbabcock2428 at 23:35
@@mareklakomski2256 Thanks. Yeah. I heard it myself after i posted my question.
I understand Hungary and Poland get along better than maybe any two countries on Earth. So I imagine he got Poland and Chekoslovokia mixed up. I think every country bordering Chekaslavakia waa guilty of taking a piece of it once Germany commited to taking over t rest of it beyond just the Sudatenland.
14:14 still hasn't gotten started yet...
Good lecture. A few minor points.
1. It's true that Congress was still investigating World Wat I war profiteering and the so-called 'merchants of death', It is important to point out that never found any connection between the wars and the industrialists. And that it was industrialists who played a key role in saving Western Civilization during World War II. Contrary to what the Marxist professors are telling our kids, capitalists do no seek war for the simple reason that it is bad for business.
2. It is also important to point out that President Roosevelt from the beginning criticized Hitler and the NAZIs.
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Let's face some industrial facts. Germany used just 30% of their munition production targeting land war. 58% went on air war and 12% for sea war. Finally just 30% of their munition production went to Eastern Front needs. Germany used in 1943 some 4 billion RM for concrete shelter construction, 80% of it because Allied bombing campaign. The value of it was about cost of 40 000 panzers, assault guns, self propelled guns. Eastern Front was not priority for German munition production.
@Jenny Rebecca----- Hitler was quoted as saying of the Soviet Union, "Kick the door in and the whole rotten structure will collapse". He predicted victory in 6 weeks. His faith endured all the way to Stalingrad, then he wet his pants in earnest. A megalomaniac, he had thought he was King Canute, protected by Providence. He was said to be an evil genius. Yes, a genius in many instances, but based on what transpired, the other side of the coin indicates his co-existent state of being incredibly stupid.
The brutality of the Germans was second to none during the war. Their crimes against the Soviet peasants, Jews, Polish and Czech were unmatched in human history.
To say that it was the work of just a few SS men is disingenuous.
They perpetrated 5 wars since 1850 and their "racist" leanings was merely catalyzed by Hitler.
One theory on why the Germans with their warring mindset suddenly went quiet after WWII postulates that nearly all of the men with a violent genome were obliterated during the war.
Overall, Germany paid a much lesser price for the Armageddon they created.
It is unthinkable to imagine what the plight of the occupied peoples might
have been had Hitler won the war.
Several thousand German POW's did starve after surrender. There were no buildings left to house them, they had been destroyed during the war. The USA was sending food to England, Russia, France, Belgium, Holland, China and other far east countries. Americans at home were rationed on food items. America simply did not have the food to feed them, our own military came first. A sad fact but they brought it on themselves.
There was not any food aid sent from European countries? that is an outright lie.
They didn't have it to send.
Germany had already stripped their countries of everything including food and sent it back to Germany. France and Belgium wouldn't have pissed in any Germans ear if their brains were on fire. Both countries had bee occupied and brutalized by Nazi Germany and had serious food shortages for at least 2 years after the wars end.
The Russians did starve German troops that surrendered to them. They treated the Germans exactly the same way they treated Russian POW's Germany starved 2 1/2 million Russian POW's to death out of the 3 million they captured.
The Nazis deserved no sympathy. They tortured and murdered 30 million civilians in the countries they occupied in Europe. They voted Hitler and his gang into power and he led them to the very worst ass kicking a country could get and Germany deserved it.
bullshit. Stop watching Khazar Jewish Hollywood films.
Read the book HELLSTORM THE DEATH OF NAZI GERMANY 1944-1947 written by the American historian Thomas Goodrich and you will know who did what.
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Hungary wanted a part of Poland?? How, they did not even shared borders.
The northwestern states of the US don't share any borders with Alaska. Any other questions?
Thomas Jamison you americans would belive in any bs with such education sorry
@@100playonplaya 'belive'? Homeschooled are we?
@@thomasjamison2050 more like typing on cellphone. But to make a log story short. In our entire (1k years) history we never had a conflict with Hungary, ever. However , during the famous three partitions of Poland at the end of xviii century, one of the countries that invaded Poland was Austria, which became Austria-Hungary in mid XIX century. So maybe this guy here is refering to this topic, and mixing with II world war, or simply thinking about Czechoslovakia or Latvia, which is closer to truth, however still it is bid poor service if such information is provided via univeristy lectures. cheers.
He may have accidentally mixed it up with Slovakia. If memory serves, when Czechoslovakia was partioned, Hungary was given a slice of eastern Slovakia.
Talk about the Havaara and the transfer agreement and all this propaganda goes out the window. Standard reinforcement of the standard narative. Nothing new here just a whole lot of baloney
Notice how he shot down the Hitler had no Jewish roots. Maybe the real issue was Hitler’s Jewish cousins didn’t treat him right, and he didn’t like the religious and talented ones too much.
@@Baczkowa78 What he didn't like was how they turned Germans into second-class citizens in their own country and transformed it into an economic and moral sewer.
@@OlympicLeprechaun no one’s forced into moral degradation, they choose it
Well the professor is largely ignorant regarding European affairs between the interwar period, as well forgot to say the national and ethnical tensions and the will of changing the borders was a direct result if the injust treates of WW1. As well, Hungary had no direct territorial claims to Poland, but generally Czechslovakia, Romania and Yugoslavia (blatant mistake of the professor, even if Hungary lost a very tiny territory of Poland, the Polish-Hungarian cordial reslations did no end after nearly thousand years, on the contrary). Not a surprise in general Americans are very ignorant on European history affairs.
German (nazi) apologetic litterature would've had a much better case if it weren't for the occupation Czechoslovakia in 1938.
The British say to the French do nothing we can appease Germany? We hear that rot again and again. Appeasement does not involve the question of a possibly dangerous neighbour, of rearmament, of public opinion, so where does the term and theory apply here? Simply because the term was applied 1936-39! No appeasement, just the term, so indeed the British said no such thing to France, they said Play the game.
Great lecture for undergrads
I hate the word " democracy" . In the name of democraty look what horrors were brought to deface France in the OGames of 2024.
When Belgium and France re-occupied Ruhr in 1923, AH realized he needs the Rhineland as a buffer.
these subtitles are terrribly wrong
A very, very perceptive point raised about the US right at the end.
Reminds me of Richard Feynman
How is that a war with Germany and USSR against Poland if the soviets brought their forces into Poland only AFTER the polish government fled the country. Why the soviets stopped at the Curzon Line, recovering only their territories lost in soviet-polish war in 1920's and not invading national parts of Poland at all? If there was secret protocol dividing Poland - how come German generals wrote in their diaries they didn't know anything about it and soviet advance took them by surprise?
God the video quality sucks, great lecture though. 240p def had way better recordings back then
Thanks!
Don't know why someone would think that Jewish people killed God, as if all Jewish people acted in unison.
Some Jewish people advocated killing the Jewish Messiah whilst others defended Him.
Many Jewish people also decided to change their ways and to follow God by following their Messiah.
But one cannot kill God. God's anointed and Babtised can well lay down His life in the ultimate show of sacrifice, as He did. But Jesus Himself said that God has given Him authority to take back His Life, which again, He did.
Also, the view that the "Jews" are responsible for the death of Jesus Christ always seems to forget to acknowledge that Jesus is of the line of David and a Jew (of the time) Himself, and that Jesus Himself said that He came for the Jews (even though He allowed non-Jews like me to follow Him).
I should work on that myself. I think what I find difficult is that some Jewish people of today does not accept Jesus as Christ. But then, let me take the plank out of my own eye first, and fully accept Jesus as the Christ for myself before I lecture to others.
The professor seems to lean to the left but I guess not so much that he falls over. The communism of Stalin and Mao Zedong competes well in terms of suffering with what Hitler brought about.
+Walter Chavez I think he just assumes the audience knows how horrible Stalin was and he has only so much time for the lecture.
Competes well? Try vastly surpasses...
@@seanhammer6296 hey Sean you do realise that the peasant nation of Soviet Russia won the space race against the US (although the US landed first on the moon) and that the peasant nation of Communist China will soon overtake, then double, the GDP of the US don't you?
@@kamranabid9365 So?
@@seanhammer6296 So? So you have to take into the account what both parties also achieved if you are weighing up the "suffering" caused. Without Soveit Russia, the Nazis would have dominated Europe until the present day - probably the US too. So compute how much "suffering" would have been caused if that was the case.
On March 15, 1939 Hitler marched to Czechoslovakia. My grandfather and uncle are send to concentration camp.
So many similarities between Hitler and Trump.
I wonder now what is your opinion on open borders. You did not see this one coming "Professor" ?
Awesome man. Can anyone supply me with the professors info? Thanks
Strange no David Irving without a doubt 1 of the most intelligent historians on WW1 n WW2
Because he is a well-known Nazi apologist and Holocaust denier.
Hopefully he eventually learned that whispering to make a powerful point is a Very Bad Idea when being videoed.
id say he does't like the vidioing....he will get no-one paying to hear him.
If only Weimar had a Federal Reserve that coulda printed all of the money they needed (like here in the US)!
Everyone can do this. The trick is to pursue other countries to accept your currency for exchange on your conditions.
What would have happened if Germany had not rearmed and Stalin had invaded Germany in the early 1940's and pitted his 20,000 tanks against the 100,000 man army of Germany?
This guy is the warren commission of history. Needs to stick to people and national Inquirer and incite gossip.
Why does this professor *pretend* to pronounce French words properly (ie Petain), but butchers German (ie Mein CAMP-f)?!!
I Wonder Who Tells His Man,,, What Day It Is,,,,
1. Yes, these were occupied soviet territories.
2. It does, technically speaking the country did not exist, so from the point of view of law its not an aggression.
3. High-ranking generals HAVE to know about this protocol - otherwise there is a huge chance of misunderstanding each others' intentions and accidentally starting a war to which neither USSR nor the Reich was ready.
4. Did he not? As far as I know his assassination attempts happened a lot later.
akkadians were behind both wars