when pennies bought houses

nazi demise became inevitable

inspired by Churchill

 

the german catastrophe

 

Better educated [e.g. 11 national daily newspapers], the highest intermarriage rate between Jews and non-Jews, and yet a quick collective coma.

you think you have problems?

 Part 1

 

Part 2

 

his dad was a Nazi

 

Casselians

 

1935 pre WWII take on Cassel here. All soon vaporized by allied bombing.

Wehrmacht

A German prisoner of war escorted by a Soviet soldier with a PPSh-41, 1943.

Gemütlichkeit

Fräulein:

Mr. Williams, why do you think there's not much comedy in Germany?

Robin Williams:

Did you ever think it's because you killed all the funny people?

survival in a corrupt, blighted society.

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”

– Charles Bukowski [1920-1994]

"Thoughts for the Times on War and Death"

 

Sigmund Freud [1856-1939] observes Germany's fall from the apex of civilization to brutality here.

On teamwork

                                

                                   Who built Thebes of the 7 gates ? 

In the books you will read the names of kings. 
Did the kings haul up the lumps of rock ? 

And Babylon, many times demolished, 
Who raised it up so many times ? 

In what houses of gold glittering Lima did its builders live? 

Where, the evening that the Great Wall of China was finished, did the masons go?

Great Rome is full of triumphal arches. 
Who erected them ? 

Over whom did the Caesars triumph? 

Had Byzantium, much praised in song, only palaces for its inhabitants ? 

Even in fabled Atlantis, the night that the ocean engulfed it, 
The drowning still cried out for their slaves. 

The young Alexander conquered India.
Was he alone ? 

Caesar defeated the Gauls. 
Did he not even have a cook with him ? 

Philip of Spain wept when his armada went down. 
Was he the only one to weep ?  

Frederick the 2nd won the 7 Years War. 
Who else won it ? 

Every page a victory. 
Who cooked the feast for the victors ? 

Every 10 years a great man. 
Who paid the bill ? 

So many reports.  

So many questions.

Bertholt Brecht [1898-1956]

Environmental Art

first mass-market artist

- Albrecht Dürer [1471-1528], Self-Portrait

integrative

"We learn from history that we do not learn from history."

- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

vocab

"Schlimmbesserung": A German word which describes an effort to make things better that actually ends up making things worse.

The Wall

"As of this week, the Berlin Wall has been down for longer than it was up."

mass grave of the Wehrmacht

"Not one step back."
- Stalin's Stalingrad directive

2nd in command

"Hitler is my conscience."
- Hermann Wilhelm Göring

the appeal of megalomania

Give away the responsibility of your life for the promise to be taken care of.