#Weimar

BerlinCompanion

kreuzberged

#OTD 1919 Friedrich #Ebert, devoted Social-Democrat, saddler by profession & former owner of a Kneipe "Zur Gute Hilfe" in #Bremen, was voted the 1st President of the new GER Republic

Joe Colangelo

Itsjoeco

Currently reading "When Money Dies" the history of hyperinflation in Weimar Germany.One of the wildest aspects I never knew was that early on people all thought they were getting rich.They

Niall Ferguson

nfergus

Today's scenes in the Capitol are a disgrace. The organizers and perpetrators of this banana republic coup attempt must be prosecuted and punished. Any politician who does not unequivocally condemn

Bloomberg Opinion

bopinion

History may not repeat itself, but it rhymes. Two republics that failed, with consequences for the whole world, have lessons for the U.S.:Pre-Imperial Rome between 133 BCE and 27 BCEWeimar

The New Englander 🇺🇸 ⚡️ 🇬🇧⚡️🇩🇪

TheNewVermonter

We are currently in The Second Weimar Era. Where degeneracy, ginormous class divide, ignorance, corruption, rise of Anarchism and Communism, and the destruction of tradition is rampant and even cheered.Many

Luke Henriques-Gomes

lukehgomes

Today’s new Covid case in Victoria went to the second day of the Boxing Day test. MCG is now an exposure site. However, officials believe he was not infectious when

Stephen Punwasi

StephenPunwasi

Millennials are the only generation where housing affordability is 35% of a dual income household.People will have to literally partner up for basic shelter. Most don't realize how problematic that

Daloha Rodríguez-Molina, MD, MSc

darokun

I dare to say that November the 9th is the most eventful day in modern German history.1. 09.11.1918 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and

🧱Captain Static, Antifa Navy🧱

CaptainStatic01

The significance of Hitler is that his rise to power is a case study of how a democracy openly chose to appoint a dictator. As Martin Luther King correctly noted,

Simon Shear

axaxaxasimon

Right, ok, so I watched a couple minutes from 40 min. Zille starts by giving the wrong dates for the Weimar Republic. She then thinks about it & corrects herself.

Rick Perlstein

rickperlstein

Yes, Trumpies imagine staying in office. All these remonstrations that they're are actually up to something more benign--fundraising, riling up the base for Georgia, placating Trump's ego--feel awfully Weimar. 1/

Virtuozzo ❄️

EVE_Virt

Weimar fell in stages. Better said, was directed to fall. The escalation at the Capitol was expected on this side of the Atlantic as a necessity to a reframing or

Christopher M True

RealChrisTrue

ThreadLet’s break this down and compare this terrifying statement and compare it to another point in history.January & February, 1933.Location: Weimar Republic.1/https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1334001013397786626 Hitler never won

Comrade Fudge

HNIJohnMiller

1) Late night musings here.The Weimar Republic in Germany. It’s fall. Who it fell to.The order of occurences in which it fell.You know, that kind of thing. 2) The first

US Rebel

USRising1776

In America, the public is given zero information on the "Weimar Republic," the period in Germany post-WWI that led to the rise of the NationaI SociaIists in 1933.This is deliberate.

Jonah Michael

JonahB1793

Besides the obvious, one problem with the Trump/Fascism analogy is that there’s probably no historical precedent to what’s happening now: a completely self-generated political crisis in the world’s oldest bourgeois

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