Thursday, August 26, 2010

Brilliant Flowering of Culture, Berlin in Weimar Era

It was said that Berlin was more, not less, cosmopolitan and brilliant, place for art and music and learning, high society and thinkers and intellectuals, for the brief time period after the first world war and before the beginning of nazi blot on the escutcheon of Germany. When the blot began most part of good German people waived it off as unimportant until it was too large to ignore and it took over, and those that still did not go with the wave and were not caught for that serious disagreement with the regime learned to be quiet and fear any servant or young child reporting on them.

Will those brilliant days ever return, some old Germans probably wistfully wonder - but not until the nazi seed is rooted out of the German and the world conscious and subconscious parts of psyche, and health is restored to consciousness.
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Weimar Culture: by Peter Gay.

Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy
by Eric D. Weitz