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Post by hi224 on Nov 7, 2019 15:06:32 GMT
The interwar period in Germany was one of extreme political and economic instability and, by 1923, the country was in a state of turmoil.
Adolf Hitler, as well as several other nationalist politicians, believed that the time was right to start an open revolution against the Weimar regime.
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Post by Winter_King on Nov 8, 2019 11:18:01 GMT
On the same day but in 1939, Hitler would escape an assassination attempt by Georg Elser.
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Post by Zos on Nov 8, 2019 11:55:10 GMT
The humiliation of what were considered extreme war reparations together with the hyperinflation following on from the world wide effects of the Wall Street Crash caused a perfect storm of public discontent, just waiting to be exploited.
The Weimar Republic period is a fascinating time, though. Very free and easy in many ways with the rise of the Berlin night club scene with the Moka Efti nightclub and the more famous Kit Kat club among many hundreds that spread up. (900 venues in Berlin with dancing licences by 1930) Lesbianism and pornography were all the rage among a wonderfully decadent scene and most of it was quite open, sadly all that was to be destroyed a few short years later in 1933.
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Post by politicidal on Nov 10, 2019 16:51:55 GMT
I guess if contemporary America had a similar situation, it'd take place at a Starbucks?  |
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