Posted 9 years ago
SpiritBear
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This 1923 aluminium 500 mark coin shows a failing economy of my ancestors' home: Germany. 500 marks would once have been a lot, but at this time, during the Weimar Republic in post-WW1 Germany, it wouldn't buy you a loaf of bread-- by 1923, a loaf of bread cost 200-billion marks. Hyper-inflation set the country in ruins, and yet people still had to eat and Germany still had to pay back unfair debts to the winning nations when Germany lost the war.
Imagine living in that. Would you survive?
You seemed to have learned the truth at a young age. The Allies laid the corner stones for WWII & later wrote the history books.
I took college-level history courses before I got into college and won an award for a story I wrote that takes place just before the Second War breaks out.
I didn't want to write anything that'd get me hate-posts or even taken down, such as why Hitler became so successful-- he was viewed as their saviour, one to bring the country up out of ruins. So I kept it simple in this post.
It's a shame that Ebert had died so soon. Who knows what he could have done with 10 more years, or if he'd have been martyred for his country.
As for who writes the history books, it is said that only the winners of wars do.
I hate war but find it fascinating.
Thanks for commenting.
Germany was 1st out of the world depression. Hitler was hailed as an economic genius. I'm the same way about wars, but they put technology in triple-time +. Have you read the covered up truth about him deliberately murdering hundreds of thousands of German prisoners of war ?
But in so doing, they also failed to work on every necessary aspect of their economy and undermined their future by doing it too quickly-- fast to rise and fast to fall. A major issue in the war was where on Earth they'd get fuel to continue it. But they did get creative: Bones from those in concentration camps as experimental fertilizer and such.
I've not read it. I know that a number starved, but that's it.
I'm not as much into learning on Hitler as I am on how people lived day-to-day life, although I have to know some stuff on Hitler to know anything on the people.
I forgot to put in the name of the murderer. Eisenhower. 800 K to 1 million in deliberate genocide .
I've not been much for the American government since I was young, either. I'm not too surprised.