Eric Weitz: "The Promise and Tragedy of a Constitution: Weimar Germany, 1918-1933"

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  • Опубликовано: 14 дек 2024

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  • @Seb1l
    @Seb1l 5 лет назад +15

    Skip to 15:08 to hear Eric Weitz speak

  • @mirabeaux851
    @mirabeaux851 2 года назад +3

    If you’ve come for a video about the Weimer constitutional itself, then this is not that. This is a video that’s more about the politics and society of weimer Germany

  • @alexanderroberts5223
    @alexanderroberts5223 2 года назад +1

    RIP Mr. Weitz. Your work was phenomenal.

  • @EpicGeopolitics
    @EpicGeopolitics 3 года назад

    Thank you for this upload. I have a question: Would Weimar have survived had it not been for the 1929 Wall Street Crash? Thanks again.

    • @albertkundrat4624
      @albertkundrat4624 3 года назад

      Very probably the Weimar Constitution would have definitely survived ,METHINKS; but, again, perhaps some other Event, or Chain of Events, or even an unsusually rare forced intersecting of Events, like the collisions of automobiles I trucks & pedestrians and Bicycles into one another from the intersecting point of many separate roads converging together to another Tragic Accident: all into the Grand SMASH, below an unusually faultily operating Traffic Light handling a much too big load of multi-laned trafficking, which leading to a bad resolution of forces, could STILL-YET have dragged The WEIMAR CONSTITUTION down to an early Grave....Buy imagery, comparible to some bushes or trees, a severe pruning does not mean the withering away of each bush or plant or tree, yet to other species, once cut down, the entire roots are doomed. The irreversable passage of time slowly forgets all the constituents, factors, positive and negative forces at work on the obvious "observable" surface, or utterly hidden or even buried below that surface....Unless one were a god with infinite powers of insight etc, no mortal could truly KNOW and pass infallible judgment on some complex phase of German History that is now vanished forever in all 100% of Its original State of vanished Affairs. But anybody could sufficiently HYPOTHESIZE on a probable Outcome that could serve as something to think about: hence that genre of speculation, called ALTERNATE Outcomes! But yet again that SCI FI Fun will never germanate from new soil the lost Reality of a vanished social, political, and military world forever GONE WITH THE WIND to utter Oblivion.

    • @rosesprog1722
      @rosesprog1722 3 года назад

      @@albertkundrat4624 Here's some speculation: since the republic and the Kaiser's exile had been forced upon the German people who were used and were quite comfortable with their kingdom, the chances of success would have been very low I suppose. And then when they suffered recession after recession democracy surely became a dirty word that Hitler enjoyed throwing in the mud, again, and again, and again. Of course when you look at the way the corrupt crooks he was facing were governing, NS probably looked like a glorious savior of societies, which it very well could have been but the wall of atrocity propaganda that hit the world after the war will not let us try it again for a long long time, too bad, we may need a replacement very soon.

    • @albertkundrat4624
      @albertkundrat4624 3 года назад +1

      @@rosesprog1722 Thanks for your Reply!

    • @albertkundrat4624
      @albertkundrat4624 3 года назад

      U are quite welcome!

    • @rosesprog1722
      @rosesprog1722 3 года назад

      @@albertkundrat4624 Dammit, I just left two comments and they're gone.

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    @ИринаКим-ъ5ч 2 месяца назад

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    @EquipteHarry 2 месяца назад

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  • @sjr7822
    @sjr7822 5 лет назад +2

    What a waste speaking about our Constitution the lawmakers never consider when making law

    • @albertkundrat4624
      @albertkundrat4624 3 года назад

      The Fatal Flaw or Mortal Wound of Our U.S. Constitution, resulted from the very Beginning, in fact, before It was being Born into Existance, to be a MANUEL on exercising the organized colective Power of Its Citizenry into National Existence, when enetering upon the World's Stage: in 1787. At the very opening of that Constitutional Convention:There was this very FLAW, an Embarrassment to the Colonists, a very slowly growing Thorn in Its Flesh: for the VERY Founding Fathers, having ASSEMBLED Together as Their Great Patriotic & Civic DUTY for the very Survival of the newly WON Nation, were falling into to the very brink of Ruining that Very THING! You see, REPUBLIC literally derives from the ROMAN TERM: "RES PUBLICA" The PUBLIC THING. So all CITIZENS had Participation in that Public Thing: Doing their Duty to Vote, to Fight if necessary, to at as Jury, etc. But SLAVERY was a contradiction: It was, in a way, a Public THING, but NOT the RESPUBLICA's PUBLIC THING of Being a Citizen, and Functioning as One. SLAVES were a sort-of-public Thing: as PROPERTY under Slave Owners. This is recorded in the private diaries of many of the Founding Fathers that have come down to Us...They almost Canceled The GREAT PARTICIPATUION to create a lasting Blue Print-embodied in a WRITTEN Constitution, the first of Its kind. But a terrible lurking SHADOW fololwed the chosen DELEGATES to the Convention at Philadelphia in 1787: Their SHADOW Selves, their Alter Ego's followed along:when the bitter contention over SLAVERY, almost forced Many, but not all Southerners to leave, for the northern States, and the mid states, as well as the developing WEST, when the desire to acknowledge SLAVERY as Law of the Land in some regions, but not on other regions, was to be INCLUDED in the very Text of the New CONSTUTUTION to be written out in permanent plain Text as Constituent of The LAW of The Land, under the CONSTITUTION to be: as SUPREME Law of the Land in well designed form, Slavery as an evolving Institution was further recognized as a potential political Tool of enormous influence, if the future sectional politics required it! Thus, at the barrgaining table at The 1787 Convention, many Present, were witnessed to have vociferously and almost Violently OBJECTED over the VERY "proposed" Provision TO BE inserted in the new Constitution this certain self-evident blatant, utter, UGLY CONTRADICTION: All SLAVES were mere PROPERTY in All STATES where Slavery was Permitted, These "subhuman" SLAVES had NO CIVIL RIGHTS, yet THEY, as a Mega-Group, were to be legally conceived as this ENTITY: a political VOTE derived from Its Counted "SLAVE:Whole in a Southern State, with they as SLAVES, to be officially recognized as this Faceless Anonymous GROUP Entity , but NOT as Individuals, How can a Grain of SALT ever be recognized as Sugar? NEVER! So how can a SLAVE be recognized as a FREE CITIZEN? NEVER! Yet put all that SALT into one big JAR: then by Legal-Formula Magic: It IS a Jar of SUGAR, and NOT SALT! The Wrappers were pit on these mega Jars: wit the appearance of collective SUGAR instead of Salt! So The vast SLAVE BLOCK had to count as a legally-CONSTITUTIONALLY UNIT, as a Mega Jar of FREE bORN CITIZENS, but only in the JAR collectively, and not outside it! the Southern States could resort to this JAR to nullify any bad measure the notherners might attempt:.be that a small fraction or great portion of the citizens in representation, on either side of opposing political standpoints of the propesed 2 party System. But at the Convention, the DELEGATES were not ignorant Fools to be blindly pulled by any strings that went against Conscience. When PRESENTED for acceptence into theCONSTITUTION, All KNEW thus subtle contradictiion the aforesaid acknowledged axiom of the LAW: No SLAVE had any RIGHTS whatsoever, Yet, as this covered MASS Unit, could transfer to the States' Slaveholders, more Power of Representation in Congress: so that more Southern votes could pull the leverage, it necessary to protect Southern Interests. THAT when mentioned at the Convention, aroused HOTLY Contested APPROVAL on one side, and bitter DISAPPROVAL as Angry Rejection on the other side. But All the Founding Fathers, especially JAMES MADISON, The FATHER of The CONSTITUTION, PRO TEMPORE, had suddenly adjourned the entire convention proceedings, to use 21st century Football simile or metaphor, for the leading minority To reHUDDLE, before the Next Game Quarters would be played out:This shrewd TACTIC saved the Constitutional Convention: ALL at the Public Session, of both opposing sides, WISELY. but Reluctantly had to let the very very Provision on SLAVERY go unnoticed in all discussions, but tacitly acknowledged as unconscously Necessary ,and therefor LEFT ALONE- to the chagrin of puritan northerners, but to the satisfaction of Southern Slave owners: the proposed fractional provision to include the slave population to add to the collective Southern vote; as well as to leave the institution of Slavery ALONE. All The DELEGATES were very CLOSE to WALKING OUT! What would have happened in American History: what course would the new FREE STATES undergo? Probably as The ancient Greek Confederacy under The PELOPONESE as a League of Sister Nation-States!! What if SLAVERY persisted under The Cotton Gin in this Europe-Like Sisterhood of States? But in The FEDERALOSTPAPERS, The ancient Greek Model of a league of Sovereign States, was argued out, in defense of the winning IDEA: ONE NATION, and only ONE NATION: E Pluribus (Coloniis) UNUM NATIOL From many (13) Colinies, ONE NATION, not a League of Nation States as their own Countries as in Europe. Then lest no unified nation FRAGMENT into a plurality of North American Continental Sovereignties, a great CIVIL WAR was fought from 1861 to 1865.oin a geat deal of Shedding Of Blood. After the Civil War, as time moved toward the 20th then to the 21st century, the American Constitution was seen over-all-wise as a REVERED Document upon The Observed Surface, in public spaces and on the media to present this IMAGE, like the FLAG of OLD GLORY: The Star-Spangled Banner, for everyone to AWE at. and all over what It symbolized:. When ASTRONAUTS went out to Space and to the Moon: Each Astronaut and All ASTRONAUTS Together as well, wee deeplyAWARE and publically messaged out to Earthlings below: See the EARTH , as 1 SPHERE, as a "WON" SPHERE (wondto Freedom and The Free World! Not many little SPHERES, as beautiful in SPACE as this delightful Christmas ornament, but dont go over what ugliness is going on on its Surface and on its SEAS!.. The very same with The U.S. Constitution! But Everyone, Professional or Layman alike, when glancing at The U.S.Constitution under public framed display, yet with their awareness of It slowly undergoing a loss of the original "ORGANIC" WHOLE of IT; that in any hid portions, no longer READ at all, in 'Obsolete?" Areas of the Written text- these SHADOWY portions still may contain, however darkly expressed in text, conceptual contradictions, ambiguities, and flaws within those very forgotten or neglected sections or abandoned parts of the constitution no longer publically talked about, or completely blocked off? { when WARREN G. HARDING was U.S President in the ROARING 1920s, He had an Adulterous Affair with His" TOP Secret"FIANCEE, while His very Wife was in The WHITE HOUSE? How? They had Intimate relations in the OBSCURE & blocked-off Elevator, totally concealed from public Awarenes and the Awareness of His Wife!}like don't enter here in WALKING this hallway or that corridor with Doors as EXITS or Entrances into! {be mindful, as well, that the word PREAMBLE is derived from the original Latin "PRAE-AMBULUM" : literally"A WALKING BEFORE" : "WE THE PEOPLE of The U.S. of A, In order To...DO Hereby Ordain and Establish THIS CONSTITUTION For..."!}, in textbooks on It, about Portions of that 1787 Document, which PERSISTS, to be taken advantage of, by POLITICIANS, LOBBYISTS, and Government or Military OFFICERS of a wide Spectrum of any possible political platform and action. So NO WONDER,"....Speaking about OUR CONSTITUTION, The Law Makers, The Law Enforcers, The Law Interpreters, All the OFFICERS of STATE put into "legitimate" POWER by Popular ELECTION as The People's Choice, and The Functioning Federal Government, never or HARDLY Considers the strict Text of the very BODY of The U.S. CONSTITUTION Itself, They ALL use their own Mega JAR of unknown GRAINS, given an external Label,when DOING THEIR "Public" THING, Right or Wrong, Possible or Impossible, beneficial or Injurious upon US all as WE The People: as US All in Flesh and Blood CITIZENS, living, fighting, progressing or regressing, getting better or getting worse...

    • @rosesprog1722
      @rosesprog1722 3 года назад +1

      @@albertkundrat4624 You write well, I'm not sure there is much left to do with a system that values money first, human life... later.
      But what is it really the dudes who met in Philadelphia wrote, and how the heck did they convince all the other dudes it would protect them, the damn thing is full of holes for crooks to slip in and it's 200 years old +, maybe it was written for all those who didn't write it, with a national anthem copied from a British drinking song, the match was perfect...

    • @rosesprog1722
      @rosesprog1722 3 года назад

      @@albertkundrat4624 I thought you may like this, very raw and very true,
      "Nightmare and insanity are akin, mysterious and involuntary states that skew and distort objective reality. One wakens from nightmare, from insanity there is no awakening.
      Whether Americans live in the one state or the other is the paramount question of this era."
      ruclips.net/video/N2Xh5eN2fXY/видео.html