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#21257
Cicero
*Expletive Deleted*
3/15/2006 2:47:45 AM
#21267
Julian
Loooook Ma - I'm typing without using my brain!
3/15/2006 3:29:03 AM
#21271
Gadren
Wow...next time you act all Hitler-wannabe, can you not be so blatant about it?
3/15/2006 3:39:52 AM
#21300
Caphi
What... the...
Can someone give me a comprehensive translation of this? My brain hurts in five places whenever I look at it. :(
3/15/2006 6:00:37 AM
#21329
The Last Conformist
Doing great, as in losing a couple million men and big chunks of its territory?
3/15/2006 11:32:39 AM
#21381
David D.G.
I had to stop reading the threads on this discussion board after a while. I was starting to feel the need for a bath and a decontamination treatment.
~David D.G.
3/15/2006 3:46:48 PM
#21428
ez-c
And here I was thinking that Germans were doing great because of the Chinese people.
3/15/2006 7:58:40 PM
#21444
Dr. Rosenburg
Germany was in the shitter, they owed BILLIONS of dollars in war reparations. Inflation was so bad that $7000 in 1922 became $1 in 1923.
3/15/2006 10:53:46 PM
#21460
ssdexecutor
If this were post-WWI Germany, this idea would be a bombshell! Heil biochemistryclues!
3/15/2006 11:51:08 PM
#21481
Julian
Hyperinflation was worse than that. They used money as wallpaper and to keep warm because it was cheaper to burn than firewood.
This essay is fascinating * * * * *
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/shared/minitext/ess_germanhyperinflation.html
(The Serpent's Egg by Ingmar Bergman is a fascinating movie too!)
3/16/2006 2:03:51 AM
#63406
Matilde
I thought they were actually holding most of the jobs Germans didn't want to do.
8/14/2006 7:25:09 PM
#943320
Timon
Germany was doing great until an inbred christian emperor came along and fucked it with republicanesque foreign policy.
4/21/2009 3:39:35 AM
#943519
Swedish Pagan
After WWI the Jews was singled out because they were an easy target, as they have been for a thousand years. Rather than stealing from the Germans, they were successful business men, who made lots of money. (Not all of them, but many enough for people to notice.) When Germany was destitute after the war, Hitler wanted someone to blame everything on (like you now blame everything on Obama).
The real reason was that it was not really fair to blame the whole war (WWI) on the Germans, and to tax them for this til the last Pfennig. If the German people had not been so humiliated and poor, they would maybe not have listened to Hitler. But hindsight is always more clear...
4/21/2009 9:38:05 AM
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