[DallasBiff]

I know I'm on a World War I jag, but someone said, "those who don't learn from history, are doomed to repeat it".

Mods pull at your discretion.

[leaning conservative]

Bkmk/Weimar republic
Looks really interesting. Thanks!

[Bonemaker]

We’re in a Weimar America period now.

[gundog]

I used to hang out with a great grandson of Friedrich Ebert. We had a falling out over Trump....I predicted he’d win in 2016. What a rube I am.

[lizma2]

In ‘84, I went to visit family in Germany who went through Nazism.

The major thing I heard was “We believed their lies.”

One of my relatives was a Nazi soldier. He said the best day of WWII was when he captured by the Americans and put in a POW camp. He said the Americans treated him better than his Nazi officers and he started to hope America would defeat Hitler.

On that trip I also visited family in Communist countries.

I started to form my political views when I discovered William F. Buckley of Firing Line in middle school. (Listened to him in the beginning because he had a weird accent!)

That trip sealed my views.

Also visited Germany’s Brandenburg Gate a month after the fall of the wall. Spent the day sobbing.... tears of joy!!

[Fiji Hill]

Charles Dawes, who drew up the Dawes Plan for Germany's reparations payments, later became Calvin Coolidge's vice president. After his death in 1951, Dawes became a rock star as It's All in the Game, a song that he co-wrote, soared to the top of the charts and then found a permanent berth on Oldies playlists from coast to coast over the next several decades.

[NWFree]

They were intended to be strangled into chaos by the Versailles Treaty

[TBP]

Welcome to Weimar America.

Get your wheelbarrow now, while you can still afford one.

[pepsionice]

There’s this brief period...November of 1918 to March 1919...where things are in a flux in Bavaria, and there’s a brief civil war conflict brewing...where Communists are taking over metro-authority in Munich and Augsburg. No one really talks much over the era....but it scared the crap out of most Germans, and there’s a lot of anti-communism feelings brewing throughout the 1920s...giving some energy to the Nazis being a better choice than the KPD Party.

Fascinating period for the 1920s, but least discussed era of the past 200 years in Germany.