I saw them digging up potatoes...while the farmer...watched them in despair and the local policeman looked on gloomily from the distance...What did it remind me of? Of the war, of the worst period of starvation in 1917 and 1918, but even then people paid for the potatoes.|...|
Hauser does not agree with Ostwald that times are finally returning to normal and in fact has his own moral message about the events of the day, as gangs of many men overtake well intentioned farmers by stealing their crops, without recourse and whole families, rather than just unemployed men roam the streets seeking food and refuge. The two, living in the same time see things froma very different perspective, and yet both harbor undertones of morality as a breaking point in the culture of the nation.
It is also important to mention that Germany was seeking and finding solutions in more than one camp, as it was not just the Nazi's who formed whole platforms of reform on the fears of the populous. One fantastic example of this is from a speech given in 1918 by Rosa Luxemburg, a leader of the communist movement in postwar Germany.
It was typical of the first period of the revolution down to December 24 that the revolution remained exclusively political. Hence the infantile character, the inadequacy, the halfheartedness, and the aimlessness of this revolution. Such was the first stage of a revolutionary transformation whose main objective lies in the economic field, whose main purpose it is to secure a fundamental change in economic conditions...but within the last two or three weeks a number of strikes have broken out quite spontaneously. Now, I regard it as the very essence of this revolution that strikes will become more and more extensive, until they at last become the focus of the revolution. (Applause) Thus we shall have an economic revolution and therewith a socialist revolution. |...|
Luxemburg stresses that the German people are seeking revolution, as a result of real economic hardship, a hardship that did not improve for many years, and makes clear that the Nazi party was not the only system that was seeking to resolve the problems of Germany. Luxemburg, speaks unfailingly and is warmly received as a bringer of truth, in much the same manner as Hitler did later.
Germany was seeking change, sweeping change that would lend rapid resolution to the desperation and the symptoms of such desperation that resulted from the great depression and then the post-war reparations and economic instability of a nation. It is for these reasons and others that the Weimer republic, of post-WWI...
Nervous Conditions After World War I, the German nation and its people were devastated. The public was led to believe that Germany was going to win the war, and it looked forward to a much- improved socio-economic climate. Instead, the war was lost and the country was facing a very dreary future. As a result, the government established the Weimar Republic under the leadership of Friedrich Ebert, a past leader of
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Question Three Not only was France the seat of the Treaty of Versailles that ended the First World War, but also it became an important actor in the international relations that would shape the international community with the end of the war. Destroyed by the German offensive and fearing another invasion, the Treaty of Versailles stipulated the demilitarization of the Rhineland between the two countries in addition to monetary war reparations
Introduction Hannah Hoch was an artist most known for her work in between the wars—the Weimar period, in which the Dada Movement came to the fore to challenge the sensibilities and pretensions of the early 20th century. Dada was as much a protest against the bourgeois as it was a slap in the face of the rising Fascist Movement. Hitler despised the Dadaists and the Dadaists despised him. Hoch counted herself
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