296. The Nazis: The Beer Hall Putsch

German hyperinflation. The Beer Hall Putsch. Hitler’s trial. Join Tom and Dominic as they discuss the Nazis in the early 1920s as the Weimar Republic is in crisis and Hitler tries to grow the party beyond Bavaria.
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[@dray6435]

Dan Carlin sent me

[@MyPerennial]

Great episode, thank you

[@simonprodhan5050]

superb stuff

[@jimb9063]

Nicely done chaps. Now I understand the premise of that channel 5 documentary about the Nazis obsession with the Yakult.

[@TimL_]

What happened to the recently uploaded old episodes?

[@lakinther7183]

tragedy

[@abdullasaeed9614]

Is there any statement on this?

[@TheAnadromist]

Look under Videos on the channel page. They are all there.

[@abdullasaeed9614]

@@TheAnadromist in my case only 178 no to recent episode are showing. Others are not available.

[@peterjaremsek8621]

@@TheAnadromist not true, a week or so ago they uploaded older episodes not on KZbin, but they've since removed them.

[@brianpollard4350]

There wasn't anything particularly sophisticated about the Dawes Plan. It was basically a circular financial model highly beneficial to the U.S.A. American banks loaned enormous amounts of money to Germany. Germany used these funds to pay reparations principally to France and Great Britain. Those countries, e.g., Great Britain and France, in turn used such money substantially to repay their massive war loans from the U.S.A. At least in the short range, the plan was remarkably successful. Charles Dawes was a clever gentleman.

[@TheOne-er7nk]

Who funded it and who gave him the light sentence? Answer that and you find out who was behind it all.

[@Rudolph_Fischer]

Who was behind it?

[@Rudolph_Fischer]

Who funded it and gave him the light sentence?

[@ComedyJakob]

Germany was stabbed in the back, but it was from within their alliance system rather than within their population. They were the best military in both world wars by far, but had the most incompetent allied powers. Take Germany and pair it with France, the UK, or Russia and I have no doubt that they'd have won any European war.

[@CL-we8tn]

True, the treaty of Versailles was a 20 year non aggression pact, so said DeGaule (sp?)

[@TheCornFarmer1989]

Germany simply wasn't stabbed in the back. Germany's army failed to make the breakthrough it needed, Germany was blockaded and starving, Germany's navy mutinied. Yes Germany's allies also collapsed, but this wasn't them betraying Germany. It was just them losing too. As for pairing them, you could say the same for the Ottomans or the Austrians. If only they had been paired with the British they might have won too and not stabbed in the back by Germany and their other allies.

[@Rock33b]

They had the best military when they were beating people who weren’t ready for war, but then when people started fighting back, they didn’t look so great now did they Vyvanse in the Russia Russia didn’t expect all the other attacks. Nobody expected it Whoopty do they conquered France really fast the rest of the countries they conquered were nobodies who weren’t ready to fight and still gave them problems, but when big boys stepped up to fight. They did not handle it well

[@CL-we8tn]

@@Rock33b you've never heard of the schliefen plan have you? The only difference they made to it in ww2 was going through Belgium and alsacelorraine at the same time, effectively halving the army sent to the west. Divide and you will be conquered, classic.

[@plebius]

This time period was the start of airpower as a force multiplier. Germany was not an airpower by any means by October of 1940 when the battle of Britain had failed. They could not match the production of planes from the Allies. They couldn't match production numbers from the UK alone, not to mention the US, or the USSR. Their marine forces were rubbish. Putting them with a different Ally is absolute codswallop. It changes the conflict so much it is not worth discussing. Their military wasn't the best, it was pretty standard. What they had was two fold, they had aggressors early advantage. Where you get to pick when and where you concentrate your forces at the start. Also they knew they were going to war and started a war economy far earlier than any other economy. If you follow any military history channel you will see their equipment was equivalent. Had its flaws just like the allies had. Their tactics were sometimes great and sometimes rubbish. They were a typical army.