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Flashback: Berlin around 1900 (Beautiful video)
YouTube ^ | Mar 6, 2017

Posted on 03/06/2017 9:52:33 PM PST by aquila48

Colour footage of street scenes of Berlin ca. 1900.

(Makes you pine for the good ol' days)

(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...


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To: aquila48

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlAa0IGCXCw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbZYRZpNc64


21 posted on 03/06/2017 10:49:04 PM PST by PGalt (HOORAY President Donald J. Trump)
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To: aquila48

I noticed about 20 different types of transportation.


22 posted on 03/06/2017 10:51:40 PM PST by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

The Little Rascals fire truck was in there.


23 posted on 03/06/2017 10:58:21 PM PST by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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To: aquila48

Nice, thanks!


24 posted on 03/06/2017 11:11:24 PM PST by W. (Deny the infiltrating lazy scum who only want a free ride admission to the USA!)
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To: Billthedrill

And it was all started by a single act of a Serbian nationalist named Gavrilo Princip... who is a complete unknown to 99.99% of the people on earth.

How different would the world be today without that single act?

No WWI, No Soviet Union, No Hitler, No WWII, No Cold War, No Vietnam war, No Communist China...


25 posted on 03/06/2017 11:13:29 PM PST by aquila48
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To: aquila48

Fantastic! Thanks!


26 posted on 03/06/2017 11:17:27 PM PST by GOP Poet
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To: DesertRhino

i found this series really insightful (done by the BBC based on diplomatic correspondence)

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x208kyw_37-days-one-month-in-summer-episode-1-of-3-world-war-i-documentary_tv

It shows the events in the 37 days from the Franz Ferdinand assassination to the start of WW1.

The whole thing was a huge surprise to everyone - even the diplomats most deeply involved.

And the striking thing is how the events moved from what was seen as a Balkan flareup to something that none of them could stop.


27 posted on 03/06/2017 11:25:00 PM PST by Reverend Wright (the snowflakes are having a meltdown !)
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To: aquila48
And it was all started by a single act of a Serbian nationalist named Gavrilo Princip...

Oh yeah, don't start me. Princip murdered the one man in all of the world who was capable of, and intended to, address the very issues that caused Princip to shoot him.

There is a school of speculative fiction centered around a time traveler going back to assassinate Hitler, but I think that Princip might be the better target. Before that shot in Sarajevo there was a Romanov dynasty, a Hohenzollern, a Habsburg, a Wittelsbach, and the entirety of the Ottoman empire. Afterward, all ashes.

29 posted on 03/06/2017 11:35:16 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Post5203

Bookmarked, and thank you very much. Hitler served at the Somme. One bullet in the right direction, that’s all it would have taken...


30 posted on 03/06/2017 11:37:54 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill

“There is a school of speculative fiction centered around a time traveler going back to assassinate Hitler, but I think that Princip might be the better target”

I agree, there would not have been a Hitler without WWI, and no WWI without Princip.


31 posted on 03/06/2017 11:45:21 PM PST by aquila48
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To: aquila48

It’s kind of like the bit where a butterfly stirs the air currents that windup a hurricane.


32 posted on 03/06/2017 11:51:41 PM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: DesertRhino

“I’m just betting he’s talking about the Africa and moslem horde that has fallen onto Europe. Just a wild guess.”

Obviously, which is ludicrous. The comment ignored the wars and communism. The Euros themselves destroyed their cities, populace and civilization before they did that.

This current suicide on their part probably comes from psychological damage from the 20th century. A populace can’t go through horrors like WWI and II and communism without there being long term effects.


33 posted on 03/06/2017 11:59:24 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: aquila48

Bookmark


34 posted on 03/06/2017 11:59:56 PM PST by kabar
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To: Billthedrill

“Before that shot in Sarajevo there was a Romanov dynasty, a Hohenzollern, a Habsburg, a Wittelsbach, and the entirety of the Ottoman empire.”

I think these dynasties were a large part of the problem.


35 posted on 03/07/2017 12:07:14 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: aquila48

War did not serve Germany well.


36 posted on 03/07/2017 12:23:05 AM PST by Bogie
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To: fella

“It’s kind of like the bit where a butterfly stirs the air currents that windup a hurricane.”

Yep, exactly what I thought too... Life is a chaotic system, and for each seemingly random perturbations you have a feedback mechanism, some positive and some negative.

So for example, before Trump;s election our society was polarized. The election of Trump has made our society even more polarized. So his election has triggered a positive feedback, i.e. one that increases the differences.

It’ll be interesting to see where it leads.


37 posted on 03/07/2017 12:35:46 AM PST by aquila48
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To: ifinnegan
I think these dynasties were a large part of the problem.

Their decline was, yes, but understand that the newest of these, the Romanov, had been around since 1610, and the rest were centuries older. That was governmental stability for central Europe, however decrepit, and a managed decline such as Ferdinand had in mind would have been far preferable to their simultaneous disappearance within only one year. That shock made all of central Europe, not just Germany, lost and in a power vacuum the world hadn't seen since the fall of the Roman empire. Picking over the ruins were weak elective governments and thugs such as the Bolsheviks and the Nazis.

Part of the perceived weakness of the Romanovs were their attempts at reform - with no war they might have had the time for a graceful landing. With it they had defeat in the field and the Bolsheviks at the door. Germany as a nation was less than a half century old. Turkey had already given power to the Young Turks but with defeat in the field the Sultan had to go. The Wittelsbachs might have stabilized what became the birthplace of the Nazi party had their Crown Prince not been a German field marshal and abdication their only option.

Consider the Balkans, where the war started, fought over by Russia, Turkey, and Habsburg Austria for centuries, suddenly bereft of all three. One might hope that would result in peace, but what resulted was chaos. Those same parties are still fighting over the scraps of empire to this very day.

38 posted on 03/07/2017 12:58:13 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: aquila48
And it was all started by a single act of a Serbian nationalist named Gavrilo Princip... who is a complete unknown to 99.99% of the people on earth.

How different would the world be today without that single act?

Someone or something else would have volunteered for Gavrilo's role in history.

And history would have rolled on ... It would have been different, but not significantly.

39 posted on 03/07/2017 1:04:44 AM PST by cynwoody
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To: nopardons

www.shorpy.com


40 posted on 03/07/2017 3:08:35 AM PST by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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