I've done a lot of reading in recent years on the Haitian Revolution. I hope one day you guys/ladies get to do a show on this. Haiti is probably the only example in modern history of a country that was created by former slaves, as well as the largest and most successful slave rebellion in history since the Spartacus led revolt nearly 2,000 years earlier. Keep up the good work and know that you are loved and appreciated by all of us here!! ❤
Also, I'd like to see episodes on Timeghost about historical diseases and pandemics such as the Bubonic Plague and how they affected global history. Being a medical practitioner myself I find this aspect of world history particularly interesting. Thanks and keep up the good work!! ❤
Speaking of Horst Wessel, in 1936, Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine (navy) commissioned a three-masted training ship and named her the Horst Wessel. The ship was taken as a war prize by the United States after World War II. After repairs and modifications, it was commissioned on 15 May 1946 into the United States Coast Guard as the USCGC Eagle (WIX-327) and remains in service to this day.
This is the most interesting and informative way to cover the rise of the Nazis. The coverage of the newspapers gives so much context. I love this. This is the first time seeing your videos and I am in love. Definitely earned my sub
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Thank you for posting which newspaper we are looking at with that paper-clipped note in the top-left! Appreciate the adjustments made at audience request! Thank you again for this well produced and important series!😊
Thanks for adding the paper clip epithet for the Newspapers. I requested it last video, im not sure if anyone else mentioned it but in any case - Thanks for listening to us!
Indy is a pro through and through and he shows it again every episode. So playing ball with him is not an easy task. Especially if english is not your first language. So, way to go, Sparty! You are making it look easy. Keep it up, man.
Great, as usual! - But aaah, I half expected the bottles, tins and cigarettes to vanish one by one (in that heavy-handed classic TV stop-motion technique) to the surprise and dismay of our two frontline newsreaders ;)
Picking up right after your Saturday WWII updates ended with the end of theat war itself by starting a Saturday series on Germany each month in the 1930s is genius. And this is in addition to the Korean War series on Tuesdays.
Great double act! You both really bring this story to life. This is really a dry account of taxes, reparations, government debts and social strife. This style of dramatising with characterisation and narration works really well. Love the energy. Month by month, I want more and more.
I can imagine it now, a collection of rival news presenters (all bard party) sent on a mission to help the resistance in some country under invasion by a powerful neighbor. They all have some competing rationale for joining in but must learn to work together for their collective goal. The final bbeg is an evil king with a funny mustache. The epilogue warns of a former ally of convenience - with yet another mustache - rising in power.
I just realised, Indy is reading the communist stuff cause he's on the left side of the screen, while Spartacus is on the right side of the screen. Very clever guys XD
Please make a dedicated series on the Cold War week by week, month by month or year by year series. I came across this channel abruptly but now I am a history war lover. Please don't stop your content. Make dedicated modern war series from all over the world. Thank you, Indy for letting us enjoy the nitty-gritty of modern war. Love and Respect.
The Cold War is largely boring. It wasn't wall-to-wall tension. There were crises here and there, like Korea, Suez, Hungary, Berlin, Cuba, and Vietnam, but mostly it was a long, drawn out chess match. It would be better to focus on the individual crises and proxy wars (which is currently being done with Korea).
I really like this new deepdive-style series, Sebatian and WW2 team. It looks like you are having fun with it and I'm tempted to say that every new series is better than the last. Very nice. Big up all.
'Horst Wessel Lied' reminds me of when Paris, a small town marching band here in, Texas tried to do a WWII tribute at halftime about 20 years ago. They waved flags of many nations that took part in that war, including rather regretfully a Nazi flag. And they played that song, too. IIRC, the crown threw trash and soda cans at them.
Great job. Finding the old articles by media across the political spectrum, then adding appropriate voice acting to it, I find quite entertaining. Indeed we have many of this still for reference. Why is this interesting? After 1933, the free press is crushed and they all to start to sing from a similar song sheet. It is very easy to forget this period afterwards and assume that Germany was a monolith before then. It wasn't and the press and political rhetoric, social products of civil society in Weimar Germany make that perfectly clear.
Indy and Spartacus, I really enjoyed this exposé. I liked the little details about "1927 vs. 1928" and the moving of the ashtray. Thank-you for your hard work in bringing these history stories alive. 🇺🇸🤝🇩🇪
When going through family papers after my mother passed away, I found her graduation certificate from the school in Berlin where she took secretarial courses. The certificate is from 1940 and the school was, ahem, the Berufsschule für Verkäuferinnen Berlin-Horst Wessel. It seems that an impressive number of schools were renamed after Wessel after 1933...
lol instead of the newspapers reading backwards they now contain just gibberish! 😆Loved the subtle Timeghost headlines. "Timeghost ist Zeitgeist". "Vorwärts! Aufwärts! Excelsior!" and also the advertisment to join the Timeghost army. Oh and I'll definitely have to get some of that HAKAPHOS fertilizer. Harnstoff - Kali - Phosphor sounds like a winner to me!
@@varana I did not notice last time, just noticed it to be backwards 😃They are probably doing this because of youtube's sick censorship and to not propagate questionable other stuff that might be readable in those newspapers.
I really hope in the next episodes, we'll get more royalist and monarchist newspapers, really interested in what they think, since they want the kaiser role to come back, especially in Bavaria, some even as a way to stop the Nazis rise.
Dream scenario, but I would love something similar to be done for the 1919-1923 period of Weimar. It's what I'm doing my major thesis on and it's really interesting. Great video btw.
"This intermezzo", he says. Glorious says I. A journalist who is prepared to use words to get his ideas across and expects the punters to either understand them look them up. Such a joy. (And I think you're doing journalism here. But then, you are also doing historical recreationism. Whatever, it works!)
Another brilliant and exciting episode! There are times when I feel like I am right there! Thank you for doing all that you do! Also... I think Indy the more "excitable" one, don't you?
Most if my generation probably know "Horst Wessel Lied" as the cool MIDI tone in the intro splash screen of the game, Wolfenstein 3d, arguably the great grandfather of first person shooter games.
@@ernestcline2868 Now that's a fitting reference, given Borduria was a disapproving representation of a fascist state in the comics (then a stalinist one after the war), ruled by "Mühler"
Well, as German i would say that you can raise all kinds of taxes in Germany as long as beer and bread stay cheap! So, clearly the high taxes on beer smell like revolution.
Once again, a brilliant format. Could you do a special discussing the different fonts used by the various papers, and their political implications? It was the NDSP that, when in power, mandated a change from the old Gothic script to the more universal Roman script in order to facilitate the integration of Germany into the global economy. This was a bit schizophrenic. Officially, Germany would use an alphabet that allowed foreigners to read and interact with German businesses, a progressive idea. Domestic propaganda, however, was often printed in Gothic fonts to emphasize "German historical greatness." The newspapers you cite choose fonts that emphasize their conservatism (Gothic) or "progressiveness" (Roman). Totalitarian governments often mandate changes to language in order to erase the past. The Bolsheviks dropped a number of letters from the language to make it more difficult to read historical documents. The Chinese government "streamlined" Chinese characters to make traditional philosophy inaccessible.
Hi Indy, why was the German artillery and the Luftwaffe unable to cause enough damage to the Dunkirk pocket to prevent an evacuation of the BEF and the French? It seems to me that if successful, the allied surrender of soldiers by the hundreds of thousands would have been catastrophic to the war effort. Love this project of History and love for you!
I heard Horst Wessel was a pimp, and he was shot by Ali Hohler, a rival pimp over whose girls could hang out underneath the lamposts. Yes, Wessel was a fascist and Hohler was a Red, but the dispute was about economics and turf, not so much politics. Until Goebels made it into a propaganda opera of Wagnerian proportions. A hit song helped.
I was a big fan of 'Babylon Berlin' series when it came out. I'm trying to align the timelines from those episodes with these discussed. Pretty sure it took place in the 20's(?) Would also be fun to see the timeline intersection with 'Peaky Blinders'
Apparently, the first three series took place in 1929, so immediately before the events in these videos. The fourth series of Babylon Berlin was set in 1930-31, so in parallel to what we will see here.
Seasons 1-3 occur in 1929, S4 in 1931. Season 5 will apparently occur in 1932-33. It's a good if bleak show, I like the (mostly) accurate vintage fashion and own a 3-piece suite because of Babylon Berlin and Boardwalk Empire. You can't be half an SPD politician.
It's interesting and unsettling how both the Communist and Nazi party headlines (which I think you guys said were direct translations from the newspapers of the day?) sound like they could easily be modern clickbait titles.
11:17 Indy’s take on this speech will forever make me chuckle: *“AN INSHORNZ KOMPANIE HESS WONSS AGAIYN KANCALLD AOUR PARTI’S KHOMRAD’S REINSCHÜRNZS-”*
Just wanting to see if anyone can clarify the 13:37 portion. Assuming that newspaper might’ve been the wrong one to put up since it was supposed to be the NADSP lines being read? Not quite sure. Either way great work as always! Look forward to the next month of coverage
I have often wondered if things could have turned out differently? What if Hitler had not existed? He had died as an ordinary soldier in World War I or had never even been born. But I am increasingly convinced that, unfortunately Germany at that time was doomed to revisionism. The sense of disappointment and injustice after the Treaty of Versailles was too great. Any politician who would have appealed to them would have achieved a gigantic electoral success and would have taken power in Germany, and certainly in the 1930s, during the Great Depression. If there would have been no Hitler, there would have been someone else - extremely racist, imperialist and anti-Semitic ideas were also popular in other parties, e.g. in the DNVP. And this someone (maybe Alfred Hugenberg) would still have sought to revise Versailles, perhaps more gently and by other means. Perhaps his claims would have been more modest than Hitler's, but there would have certainly been some and the policy of appeasement on the part of France and Great Britain would have been pursued anyway. Anschluss would have occurred, Czechoslovakia would have had to give up the Sudetenland, perhaps after a plebiscite, Lithuania would also have had to give up Memel. Claims against Poland would also have been made. Weimar Germany was unfortunely a "republic without republicans."
@@terencemichaels this guy wasn't great, they just found a funny looking and talking posterboy to sell their nonsense ideology. They would have just found someone else.
There’s a line from It Can’t Happen Here which was written in the period about a fictional American… government of the type popular in the 1930’s. There’s a character that explicitly says that the dictator (Buzz Windrip) isn’t important, he’s just a symptom of the “sickness” of economic desperation. Would it have been exactly Adolf? No, but it would have been close enough:
They were amazing and really immersive to learn the tragedy of Ælfred Æþeling's horrible end, the passing of King Saint Stephen of Hungary and what the Abassids were up to.
The horror for so many at the moment is the question of whether we’re facing the same grim conclusion about our own politics. AfD’s victory in Thuringen isn’t… comforting to the Germans, to be sure.
I've heard a lot of doomsday comparisons between Weimar Germany politics and current US politics....while I'll grant that there's definitely some parallels, one key difference stands out from watching this episode: the lack of an equivalent to the far left. The US definitely has people who embrace some version of Marxist ideals (though most of those I've encountered see the rather obvious failings in the Soviet implementation thereof), but there's no organized Communist thugs brawling (and worse) with the far right's thugs.
All I've seen is Antifa burning and destroying and creating mayhem virtually unopposed - even by government and law enforcement. The political violence today is coming from the Left, not the Right. I don't know where you are seeing far Right "thugs" committing violence. If this was really happening, it would be all over CNN and MSNBC. A person on the Right today can't even accidentally bump into someone on a sidewalk without bogus 24/7 news coverage decrying Right-wing violence. But Left-wing types can cave people's heads in during a demonstration, and it will be described as a "mostly peaceful protest."
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I've done a lot of reading in recent years on the Haitian Revolution. I hope one day you guys/ladies get to do a show on this. Haiti is probably the only example in modern history of a country that was created by former slaves, as well as the largest and most successful slave rebellion in history since the Spartacus led revolt nearly 2,000 years earlier. Keep up the good work and know that you are loved and appreciated by all of us here!! ❤
Also, I'd like to see episodes on Timeghost about historical diseases and pandemics such as the Bubonic Plague and how they affected global history. Being a medical practitioner myself I find this aspect of world history particularly interesting. Thanks and keep up the good work!! ❤
I'm still laughing at Indy's portrayal of the centre party voice
Are you gonna dedicate a series to the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial.
Speaking of Horst Wessel, in 1936, Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine (navy) commissioned a three-masted training ship and named her the Horst Wessel. The ship was taken as a war prize by the United States after World War II. After repairs and modifications, it was commissioned on 15 May 1946 into the United States Coast Guard as the USCGC Eagle (WIX-327) and remains in service to this day.
Hun, Neat!
@@conscript900 I guess it wasn't the W-orst Wessel.
I'll see myself out.
Wow that's cool, thank you.
I've seen it few times here in Baltimore.
If the Brits had captured the ship... They have a custom of keeping the name of captured ships... :o
Glad to see you guys added the tags with the party affiliation of the newspapers. Much easier to understand now.
This is the most interesting and informative way to cover the rise of the Nazis.
The coverage of the newspapers gives so much context. I love this.
This is the first time seeing your videos and I am in love. Definitely earned my sub
Wait till you see weekly coverage of WW11 .... so much info ... will keep your interest for years. Well done! Nothing else comes close.
@@YaakovEzraAmiChi I totally agree…the newspapers with the fake (and amusing) German headlines are great!
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I envy you, i wish i could see their 3 channels first time, again :D
WW2, TimeGhost History & The Great War - so much amazing content
Thank you for posting which newspaper we are looking at with that paper-clipped note in the top-left! Appreciate the adjustments made at audience request!
Thank you again for this well produced and important series!😊
And thank you for watching!
What adjustments were these, might I ask?
Thank you for this from me as well! I had trouble remembering who was who in the first episode.
Nice work as always guys. Like the subtle “TimeGhost ist Zeitgeist” sub-heading in the pro-Centre Party newspaper 😄
Nice spot!
@@WorldWarTwo Also noticed the Excelsior one too. Hope you continue with more of the Easter eggs.
Orthographically, it would have been correct to write Geist with a long s, i.e., ſ instead of s
ah, you caught that too!
Yeah, I was wondering what it meant. I check "ist" on google. It just is the German "is"
I wasn't interested in this Weimar period of history before, but the reality of this is so much stranger than fiction. I'm hooked.
Read Vertigo by Harald Jahner. Babylon Berlin is also good even if the history isn't always good.
It is so fascinatingly unstable.
Could have been worse, at least it wasn't a nuclear wessel.
Ba dum tish.
Were the ships made of transparent aluminum?
@@kban77They were so far behind the Federation on that technology. It would have taken the Germans at least 15 years to make transparent aluminum.
*picks up mouse*
"Computer? Computer?"
“How quaint.” Probably my favorite line in every Star Trek movie ever made.
Thanks for adding the paper clip epithet for the Newspapers. I requested it last video, im not sure if anyone else mentioned it but in any case - Thanks for listening to us!
Thank you for adding the labels indicating paper alignments. ❤
But which one is chaotic evil?
This is an excellent concept and brilliantly executed.
As a German, reading the Texts AROUND the Headlines made me chuckle quite a bit 😀
Any particular gems to share?
@@Justanotherconsumer no, because its just Hollywood- German- Gibberish like you heard it in Movies from the 60's onwarths xD Thats the Joke.
That would explain why I couldn't make any sense of it. 😂
Indy is a pro through and through and he shows it again every episode. So playing ball with him is not an easy task. Especially if english is not your first language. So, way to go, Sparty! You are making it look easy. Keep it up, man.
Much easier to follow this episode, I think this series is gonna end up being really good.
Great, as usual! - But aaah, I half expected the bottles, tins and cigarettes to vanish one by one (in that heavy-handed classic TV stop-motion technique) to the surprise and dismay of our two frontline newsreaders ;)
Picking up right after your Saturday WWII updates ended with the end of theat war itself by starting a Saturday series on Germany each month in the 1930s is genius. And this is in addition to the Korean War series on Tuesdays.
Thank you, we also plan to release some long form documentaries in the future and more. We have plenty in the pipeline, stay tuned!
The French and Italians were not willing to accept the naval treaty because their .75 ships kept sinking no doubt
The front fell off...
@@jonbaxter2254 They didn’t have a front.
Now that you mention it 'TimeGhost' is indeed zeitgeist.
Great double act! You both really bring this story to life. This is really a dry account of taxes, reparations, government debts and social strife. This style of dramatising with characterisation and narration works really well. Love the energy.
Month by month, I want more and more.
An I the only ones thinking that Indy and Spardy are practicing silly voices for their dungeon and dragons campaign?
Yeah, you're the only one!
I can imagine it now, a collection of rival news presenters (all bard party) sent on a mission to help the resistance in some country under invasion by a powerful neighbor. They all have some competing rationale for joining in but must learn to work together for their collective goal. The final bbeg is an evil king with a funny mustache. The epilogue warns of a former ally of convenience - with yet another mustache - rising in power.
Oops all bards
Has anyone written a D&D game set in the LateTwenties/ Early Thirties besides ''Call of Cthulu''?
_besides_ Call of Cthulhu?!
I just realised, Indy is reading the communist stuff cause he's on the left side of the screen, while Spartacus is on the right side of the screen. Very clever guys XD
Please make a dedicated series on the Cold War week by week, month by month or year by year series. I came across this channel abruptly but now I am a history war lover. Please don't stop your content. Make dedicated modern war series from all over the world. Thank you, Indy for letting us enjoy the nitty-gritty of modern war. Love and Respect.
The Cold War is largely boring. It wasn't wall-to-wall tension. There were crises here and there, like Korea, Suez, Hungary, Berlin, Cuba, and Vietnam, but mostly it was a long, drawn out chess match. It would be better to focus on the individual crises and proxy wars (which is currently being done with Korea).
I really like this new deepdive-style series, Sebatian and WW2 team. It looks like you are having fun with it and I'm tempted to say that every new series is better than the last. Very nice. Big up all.
lol, so glad this channel was recommended to me by the almighty algorithm! *much thanks.*
Thank you so much for the superchat!
I am absolutly loving the inclusion of the newspapers and how you use them
Hi Indy and Sparty
Awesome episode.
Lots learned.
Thanks.
'Horst Wessel Lied' reminds me of when Paris, a small town marching band here in, Texas tried to do a WWII tribute at halftime about 20 years ago. They waved flags of many nations that took part in that war, including rather regretfully a Nazi flag. And they played that song, too. IIRC, the crown threw trash and soda cans at them.
Great job.
Finding the old articles by media across the political spectrum, then adding appropriate voice acting to it, I find quite entertaining.
Indeed we have many of this still for reference. Why is this interesting? After 1933, the free press is crushed and they all to start to sing from a similar song sheet. It is very easy to forget this period afterwards and assume that Germany was a monolith before then. It wasn't and the press and political rhetoric, social products of civil society in Weimar Germany make that perfectly clear.
Finding the tempo to be just right in episode 2. I think my next episode I will fully comfortable. Another outstanding job of story telling.
This is such a brilliant idea for a show, fantastic stuff boys
Indy and Spartacus, I really enjoyed this exposé. I liked the little details about "1927 vs. 1928" and the moving of the ashtray. Thank-you for your hard work in bringing these history stories alive. 🇺🇸🤝🇩🇪
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Really bewildering how history repeats is self.
When going through family papers after my mother passed away, I found her graduation certificate from the school in Berlin where she took secretarial courses. The certificate is from 1940 and the school was, ahem, the Berufsschule für Verkäuferinnen Berlin-Horst Wessel. It seems that an impressive number of schools were renamed after Wessel after 1933...
lol instead of the newspapers reading backwards they now contain just gibberish! 😆Loved the subtle Timeghost headlines. "Timeghost ist Zeitgeist". "Vorwärts! Aufwärts! Excelsior!" and also the advertisment to join the Timeghost army.
Oh and I'll definitely have to get some of that HAKAPHOS fertilizer. Harnstoff - Kali - Phosphor sounds like a winner to me!
They always contained just gibberish, only last time mirrored and blurred. :D
@@varana I did not notice last time, just noticed it to be backwards 😃They are probably doing this because of youtube's sick censorship and to not propagate questionable other stuff that might be readable in those newspapers.
I hope Ground News sponsor your show, it just fits perfectly.
I really hope in the next episodes, we'll get more royalist and monarchist newspapers, really interested in what they think, since they want the kaiser role to come back, especially in Bavaria, some even as a way to stop the Nazis rise.
I watch everything that you put on your channels. I learn a lot.
I’m loving this series, it’s a period of history I’m woefully ignorant of, but this format really drills the knowledge home 👏
Indy, you have having way too much fun with the different voices/ characters.
Another quality series and very timely.
Thank you for confirming the purpose of this series.
Dream scenario, but I would love something similar to be done for the 1919-1923 period of Weimar. It's what I'm doing my major thesis on and it's really interesting. Great video btw.
Thank you and good fortunes with your thesis. As far as I know nothing is planned for this timespan.
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They do say that empty Wessels make the most noise.
This is one hell of a show! I am absolutely blown away by the constant increases in quality over the years since WW1.
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WONDERFUL VIDEO ! Well researched & produced
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another awesome Time Ghost series in the making!!!!
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I come for the history, but I _stay_ for the excellent voice-work.
"This intermezzo", he says. Glorious says I. A journalist who is prepared to use words to get his ideas across and expects the punters to either understand them look them up.
Such a joy.
(And I think you're doing journalism here. But then, you are also doing historical recreationism. Whatever, it works!)
Fascinating series. Love it, thanks team
People decades from now:
"The 2020 Olympics..."
"2021"
"My note says 2020"
"But the Olympics were held in 2021"
2020 + 1
I hope you can explore why the SDP was so rarely in the Weimar governments when they were always on top.
I'm three minutes into this episode and I'm loving the format.
Another brilliant and exciting episode! There are times when I feel like I am right there! Thank you for doing all that you do! Also... I think Indy the more "excitable" one, don't you?
Most if my generation probably know "Horst Wessel Lied" as the cool MIDI tone in the intro splash screen of the game, Wolfenstein 3d, arguably the great grandfather of first person shooter games.
"the London Naval Conference is dead in the water" hehehe I see what you did there!
Thank you for the details of the political life in Germany. Also for marking the political ideology of the newspapers.
Artichokes, Assassins, Bahshi-Bazouks! Would Indy be a fan of the Tintin Comics by any chance?
Captain Haddock would approve
Oh yes. Wait until the intro of episode three.
Will Borduria play a part in these events?
@@ernestcline2868 Now that's a fitting reference, given Borduria was a disapproving representation of a fascist state in the comics (then a stalinist one after the war), ruled by "Mühler"
@@Game_Hero Amiah! Kurvi Tasche!
Great stuff. Thank you.
I'm really enjoying this sub series!
Worth every moment of my attention, Thanks.
Guys, this is awsome an more than needed in our time. So appreciated
Great idea for this series. Know the history but loving it and the detail.
My fav part of these videos is watching Indy move his lips to Spartacus’s lines.
Always learning something new. Thanks.
Thanks for watching!
Well, as German i would say that you can raise all kinds of taxes in Germany as long as beer and bread stay cheap! So, clearly the high taxes on beer smell like revolution.
Just found you guys! Funny, I hated history in school. Now i can’t get enough
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I'm loving this series so far.
It is nice to see both Indy and Spartacus together doing the dual Party sides. Those men have done so much for history buffs over the last decade.
Once again, a brilliant format. Could you do a special discussing the different fonts used by the various papers, and their political implications? It was the NDSP that, when in power, mandated a change from the old Gothic script to the more universal Roman script in order to facilitate the integration of Germany into the global economy. This was a bit schizophrenic. Officially, Germany would use an alphabet that allowed foreigners to read and interact with German businesses, a progressive idea. Domestic propaganda, however, was often printed in Gothic fonts to emphasize "German historical greatness." The newspapers you cite choose fonts that emphasize their conservatism (Gothic) or "progressiveness" (Roman).
Totalitarian governments often mandate changes to language in order to erase the past. The Bolsheviks dropped a number of letters from the language to make it more difficult to read historical documents. The Chinese government "streamlined" Chinese characters to make traditional philosophy inaccessible.
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Well done TGA!! Concise.
Thank you! Now I am going to have that song in my head all day
Hi Indy, why was the German artillery and the Luftwaffe unable to cause enough damage to the Dunkirk pocket to prevent an evacuation of the BEF and the French? It seems to me that if successful, the allied surrender of soldiers by the hundreds of thousands would have been catastrophic to the war effort. Love this project of History and love for you!
Looks like Sparty is trying to match Indy on his constant gesticulations and mannerisms.
Sparty is late, but tells Indy to hang up. Power move.
Love Indy’s reference to Captain Haddock! 😂
I like the word play between sparty and Indy , and the ashtray move...funny
75% increase of the tax on beer, now that is the real war against humanity
There was even a brief encounter with Kapitän Haddock fellas...
I loved those snap cap beer bottles while I was stationed in Holland during the 1960's
I heard Horst Wessel was a pimp, and he was shot by Ali Hohler, a rival pimp over whose girls could hang out underneath the lamposts. Yes, Wessel was a fascist and Hohler was a Red, but the dispute was about economics and turf, not so much politics.
Until Goebels made it into a propaganda opera of Wagnerian proportions. A hit song helped.
It was so interesting - many thanks!!
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Oh how similar the talkingpoints sound today :)
I was a big fan of 'Babylon Berlin' series when it came out. I'm trying to align the timelines from those episodes with these discussed.
Pretty sure it took place in the 20's(?)
Would also be fun to see the timeline intersection with 'Peaky Blinders'
Apparently, the first three series took place in 1929, so immediately before the events in these videos. The fourth series of Babylon Berlin was set in 1930-31, so in parallel to what we will see here.
Seasons 1-3 occur in 1929, S4 in 1931. Season 5 will apparently occur in 1932-33. It's a good if bleak show, I like the (mostly) accurate vintage fashion and own a 3-piece suite because of Babylon Berlin and Boardwalk Empire. You can't be half an SPD politician.
Getting shot in the face after answering the door. Talk about having a bad day...
"He got a sudden case of lead poisoning" - James Bond
It's interesting and unsettling how both the Communist and Nazi party headlines (which I think you guys said were direct translations from the newspapers of the day?) sound like they could easily be modern clickbait titles.
Yes, you are right those are direct translations and yes it does sound like modern clickbait 😂
11:17 Indy’s take on this speech will forever make me chuckle:
*“AN INSHORNZ KOMPANIE HESS WONSS AGAIYN KANCALLD AOUR PARTI’S KHOMRAD’S REINSCHÜRNZS-”*
Back to the future...
"History doesn't repeat itself, but it often ryhmes."
--Mark Twain
While seeing this video I've think that the position of finance minister in Weimar Germany it's a very frustrating, tricky and risky duty...
Digging the side by side!
Thank you for the lesson.
And thank you for watching!
Just wanting to see if anyone can clarify the 13:37 portion. Assuming that newspaper might’ve been the wrong one to put up since it was supposed to be the NADSP lines being read? Not quite sure. Either way great work as always! Look forward to the next month of coverage
"The robbery of German land in Poland" is from the Nazis, the rest is from the Vossische Zeitung! Hope that helps!
I have often wondered if things could have turned out differently? What if Hitler had not existed? He had died as an ordinary soldier in World War I or had never even been born. But I am increasingly convinced that, unfortunately Germany at that time was doomed to revisionism. The sense of disappointment and injustice after the Treaty of Versailles was too great. Any politician who would have appealed to them would have achieved a gigantic electoral success and would have taken power in Germany, and certainly in the 1930s, during the Great Depression. If there would have been no Hitler, there would have been someone else - extremely racist, imperialist and anti-Semitic ideas were also popular in other parties, e.g. in the DNVP. And this someone (maybe Alfred Hugenberg) would still have sought to revise Versailles, perhaps more gently and by other means. Perhaps his claims would have been more modest than Hitler's, but there would have certainly been some and the policy of appeasement on the part of France and Great Britain would have been pursued anyway. Anschluss would have occurred, Czechoslovakia would have had to give up the Sudetenland, perhaps after a plebiscite, Lithuania would also have had to give up Memel. Claims against Poland would also have been made. Weimar Germany was unfortunely a "republic without republicans."
Tolstoy would agree; history is not made by great men so much as the masses that follow them.
@@terencemichaels this guy wasn't great, they just found a funny looking and talking posterboy to sell their nonsense ideology. They would have just found someone else.
What if he just was accepted to art college???
There’s a line from It Can’t Happen Here which was written in the period about a fictional American… government of the type popular in the 1930’s.
There’s a character that explicitly says that the dictator (Buzz Windrip) isn’t important, he’s just a symptom of the “sickness” of economic desperation.
Would it have been exactly Adolf? No, but it would have been close enough:
The Nationalist party would've been the villains instead. Perhaps the Communists, the Weimar Republic didn't have sufficient popular support to last.
Political violence was absurd at this point in time.
It’s amazing to me that they had newspapers with imbedded videos back in the 1030s. 👍
It was the style at the time
They were amazing and really immersive to learn the tragedy of Ælfred Æþeling's horrible end, the passing of King Saint Stephen of Hungary and what the Abassids were up to.
"TimeGhost ist zeitgeist!" 😆
Amazing! This will never end well.
The horror for so many at the moment is the question of whether we’re facing the same grim conclusion about our own politics.
AfD’s victory in Thuringen isn’t… comforting to the Germans, to be sure.
Interesting details on Horst Wessel.
I've heard a lot of doomsday comparisons between Weimar Germany politics and current US politics....while I'll grant that there's definitely some parallels, one key difference stands out from watching this episode: the lack of an equivalent to the far left. The US definitely has people who embrace some version of Marxist ideals (though most of those I've encountered see the rather obvious failings in the Soviet implementation thereof), but there's no organized Communist thugs brawling (and worse) with the far right's thugs.
All I've seen is Antifa burning and destroying and creating mayhem virtually unopposed - even by government and law enforcement. The political violence today is coming from the Left, not the Right. I don't know where you are seeing far Right "thugs" committing violence. If this was really happening, it would be all over CNN and MSNBC. A person on the Right today can't even accidentally bump into someone on a sidewalk without bogus 24/7 news coverage decrying Right-wing violence. But Left-wing types can cave people's heads in during a demonstration, and it will be described as a "mostly peaceful protest."
loving this new series. I just bought Weimar: fight for democracy.
History doesn’t repeat itself, nor does it necessarily rhyme itself. But I think it flirts with itself.