Hitler

Lecture 23, The Rise of Hitler, of UGS 303, Ideas of the Twentieth Century, at the University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2013

[@Roy-xe9is]

It's nice to see the professor finds something relevant to every answer.

[@phosphoros60]

"The Austrians have succeeded in making the world believe that Beethoven was Austrian, but Hitler was German!" - German Saying

[@beargrylls235]

I´m into the third lesson now and i´m starting a crowdfunding for UT to get a janitor with only oil as a tool, sole responsible to annihilate tall squeaking chairs on campus

[@turboflutter9325]

you have no idea how bad it is man, unless you do in fact know how bad it is, in which case you would have a good idea about how bad it is man

[@anyanyanyanyanyany3551]

Dr. Bonevac, I hope if you have new or more recent recordings of lectures for this class, I would be glad to watch them. Hitler is badly misrepresented both by those who hate him on the political left and those who embrace him on the political right without actually knowing what he advocated for in his policies.

[@giulioemme5452]

To be honest, everyone would feel as if there was a conspiracy against them if they suffered so much for a war they didn't care for and were entirely blamed for it.

[@esser7678]

learning of the inflation in Germany reminds me of my country Venezuela. i have lost more than 100% of my money in one day and i also have use bags to carry hundreds of millions of Bolivares just to buy a pack of cigarettes

[@rosesprog1722]

There are a lot of facts in that presentation that are usually kept out of the official history, well done, this is much closer to how WW2 ought to be taught everywhere. Now, next lesson...

[@minimax9452]

I am a german: Really Great lecture! One Aspect at the beginning was to short. Directly after WW I there wer not fighting communist Soldiers (Soldatenräte) against moderate People. Against the "Soldatenräte" are standing the "Freichors" a radical right wing movement lead by former officers and aristorats. And there were also "moderate" movements. By the way the "Soldatenräte" were mostly members of the social democratic party - wich was at the time more left than today - so it is discussable if they were communists. The SPD won in this struggle by embracing with the radical right "Freichor" and paid the price - an behalf of SPD defence minister Nooske they schoot their own social democrat members (a few hundret) of the party in Berlin A wonderful Book abaout this very important part of history is from Sebastian Haffne "Die deutsche Revolution 1917/1918: If you want to understand the rise of hitler one part is the mony (what you perfectly explaind) and the other part is the "failed revolution" and the fight between the radicals.

[@thirdroompro]

Great lecture, however what year are the students in the class? Some of the questions made me feel like the students were in 9th grade.

[@PhiloofAlexandria]

These are first-year college students.

[@tomasmo66]

great lecture, thanks!

[@roberthartley3175]

25:21 Morritz Schlick was not Jewish.

[@Vilkas1]

And the blockade of Germany continued AFTER the armistice.

[@dan-berladyn]

I'm watching now, so far very factual and unbiased. Thank you.

[@macvena]

Catholicism is exclusively seen as a religion. The Jews were viewed by the Nazis as a race with a common religion. They didn't view Jews as Germans. Like Judaism, Islam, and Christianity are also transnational religions, but the latter two are not tied to any specific tribe, or race, according to the National Socialists.

[@wescleveland1067]

This guy rocks!

[@danelirimescu6832]

And by the way .I am european . I know the germans very well . They are the most working people in europe . Self consciouness . Self disciplined . Innovative people . Skilled workers. Best scientist

[@Vilkas1]

What is your evidence for his father wanting him to study Engineering?

[@TheJoshtheboss]

Seriously? Kafka was born in Prague to German-speaking Jews. Austrian-Hungarian Empire and Czechoslovakia in the times of this lecture setting.

[@peterrosqvist2480]

39:58 Most of the first nazi's were students? Kind of familiar

[@hairlokk8672]

Great lectures, just wish we got to see it all. Hate to miss out on stuff. What do you think about the situation in Europe? Many of us who live here think it wont take long before some countries get fascist leadership again, but even more probable that they get the power thru EU elections since its lower amoutn of ppl voting in them elections.

[@michaelfern4079]

Who funded AH? Then ask WHY? The rabbit hole is dark indeed.

[@realDrunyrun]

What should I know

[@fenzelian]

@@realDrunyrunnot sure what they’re getting at Hitler had very wealthy patrons whose businesses had been hit hard by seizure of German assets by the Allies during and after the war, and who happened to be anti-Semitic and/or fiercely anti-Communist, which were two fears that Hitler definitely used to recruit people, to say the least. He was personally bankrolled by the wealthy German owners of a once British-operating piano company that had been forced to flee Britain because their property there was being seized during the war. They had joined an anti-Semitic nationalist group Hitler was part of when he was young and the wife was weirdly infatuated with him while he was in prison and introduced him to all her friends in high society. He was also heavily bankrolled by key figures in the steel industry - and this is because the French had a goal of annexing the Ruhr valley (key German steel and industrial area), both during the treaty negotiations and after the peace, even going so far as to occupy it with their own troops in peacetime. This really pissed off the German steel barons, and also some of their friends overseas - and it was easy to convince anybody in that business who also happened to hate Jews and/or Communists that this Hitler guy was going to fix their problems. But through these and other circles Hitler met a lot of people and accumulated political donors and favors. While some of them definely raise eyebrows (Like the notoriously anti-Semitic Ford family), I don’t think any of that goes so far as to suggest the war was an inside job, so to speak. Nobody before Hitler had been Hitler and so as Hitler became Hitler a lot of things happened differently from how a lot of people expected. To say the least. But it’s not like being anti-Semitic was a rare thing in the world, and it’s not like Vladimir Lenin hadn’t very deliberately scared the shit out of lots of people with money (ironically while himself being bankrolled by the German government). And Hitler capitalized on both. So he got a super fancy house, drove a super fancy car, all that stuff. Also Hitler wrote a very profitable bestselling book you have probably heard of and once he was in power he continued to grift the country by making everybody keep buying copies of it.

[@fenzelian]

But yeah one thing the lecture leaves out is the Dawes plan that restructured German reparations came as a result of France trying to basically repo the Ruhr Valley for default on the old war reparations, which led to a lot of violence itself. This was a major fundraising win for Hitler - he raised a ton of money out of Ruhr after the occupation - even though he didn’t get a lot of votes out of the region. Though the story also leaves out that the reparations were not new. When Napoleon defeated Prussia, he made then pay a ruinous indemnity. Then when the German Empire won the Franco-Prussian war they made France pay back an equally ruinous indemnity. The WWI indemnity was that same can still getting kicked back and forth. It wasn’t like they just came up with this stupid idea at Versailles whole cloth.

[@peternewman1609]

@@fenzelian I want you to know that I really appreciate this factual response. Particularly because I suspect that it is not what the OP had in mind...

[@linguaphile9415]

Many ill students in the room 😱

[@Vilkas1]

Serbia had responsibility for the war since it supported the Black Hand.

[@CroMarduk]

serbs started the war

[@TheJoshtheboss]

Besides, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. Russia stats partial mobilisation against AH. Germany, after ultimatum, declares war on Russia, few days after declares war on France. The Germans were always too hasty. And yes, it is massively their fault. Not saying entirely, but hugely.

[@bodasactra]

How this guy said Germany was not responsible for WW1 when it is well known Kaiser Wilhelm II and his generals wanted to expand Germany to a world power and lived in a very militaristic society bent on a new generation's desire for its own glory based on past war victories over France.

[@MrTravelWriter]

Do you mean universities have professors who teach about Hitler and aren't Nazis? Oh, I've been watching too many Hitler videos by Dr. Jordan Peterson.