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Certainly. It was the French, particularly Foch who insisted on punitive, and later claimed it was too lenient. Keynes wrote a famous book "On the Consequences
by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
Certainly. It was the French, particularly Foch who insisted on punitive, and later claimed it was too lenient. Keynes wrote a famous book "On the Consequences of Peace" roundly criticising the settlement. Essentially Versailles set in train the events that led to WW2, Nazi party notwithstanding.
Ironically toward the end of WW2, the Americans promoted the Morgenthau Plan that would have barred Germany from nearly all industry, putting them back to an agrarian age and made Versailles look relatively trivial. It almost certainly extended the war. Thankfully once it became widely known it was replaced with the Marshall Plan.
- Fnoord 7y agoThe German series "Babylon Berlin" [1] is a fictive series about the Weimar Republic before the Nazis got to power. Berlin Alexanderplatz is apparently also about Berlin the 1920s. It is from 1980, by famous director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. The entire miniseries is ~15,5 hours long. I have yet to see it before my death... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon_Berlin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon_Berlin [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Alexanderplatz_(miniseries) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Alexanderplatz_(miniser...
- sverige 7y agoBerlin Alexanderplatz is definitely worth the investment of time if you have any interest in modern German history and culture. Less time than "Breaking Bad" or "The Walking Dead."
- FabHK 7y agoAnd Babylon Berlin is also well worth it - great mise-en-scène, recreation of the time and place (I think... wasn't there :-) and a captivating police/thriller/extortion/revolution story. And it introduces a bit of the political background (the rise of both the communists and the fascists and their assault on the republic), but not annoyingly so.