Good Primer on Weimar Republic

Posted on August 12, 2010 by maxkeiser| 6 Comments

First, a quick history lesson. The Weimar Republic was born following the end of World War One. The armistice forced Germany’s monarch, Kaiser Wilhelm, to abdicate and leave the country. In the civil chaos and revolution that followed, other major leaders, like the King of Bavaria, also were forced out of power. A semi-coalition government drew up a new constitution in the town of Weimar, hence the name.

The Weimar Republic got off to a shaky start due largely to the financial penalties imposed upon Germany by the Treaty of Versailles. To pay the Allied Powers, mostly Britain and France, France and Belgium even sent troops into Germany to force them to pay. Germany fired up the printing presses and cranked out worthless currency to pay the tab. After a few years of hyperinflation, the Weimar Republic elected a new chancellor, as well as a new head of the Reichsbank, and after November 1923 or so, the economy began to stabilize. But the social unrest was still prevalent. More

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6 Responses to Good Primer on Weimar Republic

BuelahMan | August 13, 2010 at 5:05 pm |

One of the reasons I like watching Fox News’ Glenn Beck is that he definitely thinks ‘outside-the-box’ and ‘connects-the-dots’ to get a big-picture view.

Could they have begun this with a more idiotic statement?
Frankie | August 13, 2010 at 3:50 pm |

Re your comments on The Weimar Republic , below are the warnings from Benjamin Freedman about how Germany was brought down. America is being set on the same path because as we know, nobody learns from history. My theory is that Arnold Schwarzenegger will be America’s Hitler. That’s why he was made Governor of California.

http://www.erichufschmid.net/TFC/Ben_Freedman.html
jischinger | August 13, 2010 at 11:36 am |

the last decade, the aughts, have been all retro – a remix – redux of everything before and of itself. That is what we will experience in the next decade – everything that’s already happen in bits and pieces, parts from other parts all intersecting – 1920s intersecting with parts from the 1980s and so on. It’s going to be a very confusing time.

It’s also going to be a time to hunker down, but not with food stuffs or in some bunker buried deep, but with those you trust most – you’ll have to find an anchor or you may be the anchor. America the giant was lulled to sleep, waking up will be hard, people will be in a dazed, groggy, dull.

Underneath all of this confusion and distorted surroundings will be a pulse – like the one Stacy made mention to here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vuZMR–0×4#t=5m37s

we should look for that pulse and trace its origins
Bonn | August 13, 2010 at 10:15 am |

Barack Hussein Obama II = 20 letters
See tees twerps follow astrology and some time frame
it is’nt by mistake he has taken this name
Its on purpose it does have some Masonic conatations
I am trying to Find stuff on his name to try and get a Date
Mother Earth | August 13, 2010 at 10:06 am |

I’m quite obviously not on board with the ‘We’ perspective…
Bonn | August 13, 2010 at 9:26 am |

@ Max
So now yer Ex – Rougue Country is gonna stay in Iraq untill 2020
Maybe thats about How much Oil is there ?? or in 2020 they re-negotiate and extend another 10 years then ???
Austrailya has already Claimed its forces may hafta stay in Afganistan untill 2040.
Oh and I thought I’d just post sometin on tis Thread
Hic