MPL Talks: The Rise of National Socialism in Germany

MPL Reference Librarian Dr. John Foster discusses the rise of National Socialism in Germany, including:
• Adolf Hitler's rise to popularity and power
• how the instability and failure of the Weimar Republic created fertile ground for National Socialism
• the pseudo-scientists who encouraged Germany's anti-Semitism
• what a terrible book Mein Kampf is.
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[@randyhavard6084]

Does this guy really think that hyper inflation isn't caused by printing money? Increasing the money supply is exactly what causes inflation.

[@soringoldenberg2856]

Wilhelm the 2nd the son of Wilhelm the 1st? And Friedrich his elder brother? What kind of historian is this guy?

[@dariowiter3078]

@Gayle Elizabeth That's correct. William Shirer's, the CBS correspondent in Germany during the Weimar and Hitler eras, points out the fact about Chamberlain's marriage to Wagner's widow in his book, The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich(1960). Plus, this guy is too dismissive of Mein Kampf(My Struggle), which is too important a book to ignore, even if it's badly written in general.

[@Diasindeff]

I was looking for this comment 😂 i was like what is he talking about

[@tannopk]

I'm so excited to hear this, it's difficult to find a forensic timeline ... It's good to know about communism and fascism, but it's great to know why they happened, thank you for this

[@jaymuzquiz2942]

“If we are socialists, then we must definitely be anti-semites - and the opposite, in that case, is Materialism and Mammonism, which we seek to oppose.” “How, as a socialist, can you not be an anti-semite?” Adolf Hitler 1931 interviewed by Richard Breiting, editor of Leipziger Neueste Nachrichten

[@paigetomkinson1137]

Anyone trying to understand the word "Socialism" in that instance, and in the name of that party also needs to understand how Hitler defined "Socialism" itself. He took that label, but changed the definition to suit his own purposes. This is from an interview Hitler did with American journalist George Sylvester Viereck in 1932: "Socialism is an ancient Aryan, Germanic institution. Our German ancestors held certain lands in common. They cultivated the idea of the common weal. Marxism has no right to disguise itself as Socialism. Socialism, unlike Marxism, does not repudiate private property. Unlike Marxism, it involves no negation of personality and, unlike Marxism, it is patriotic...We demand the just fulfillment of the claims of the productive classes by the State on the basis of race solidarity. To us, State and race are one."

[@ronryan7398]

Wilhelm II was Frederick's son, not his brother. It's so annoying when historians get simple facts wrong.

[@Hydroxica]

I know I get really upset anytime the guy at Best Buy is fixing my computer and makes a typo. Like...you're an expert in this field, why do you make any mistakes? So I would call them over and kindly ask them to bring me my computer back. The fact that they make a simple typo reduces my confidence they know how to fix my computer. I do the same when reading a book. I don't care how renown of an author they are, if I find one misspelling or grammatical error I ask for an immediate refund and leave a poor review. How can they be trusted to write a respectable book if they are making such simple errors?

[@lo3572]

@@Hydroxica it’s not a small error to mix up the relations of the royal family in the country you’re lecturing about

[@Hydroxica]

@@lo3572 so the entirety of the lecture must be bunk.

[@Joseph-fw6xx]

U would think a historian would get it right

[@jordanpeters3746]

Interesting ... as a Jewish person I posted something here ... but when I tried to edit it I got a message, in red text, 'error returned' ... and the posting disappeared when I restarted the video. Maybe "something" or "someone" was "suspicious" that I was posting something "antisemitic"? I've never seen this message before. This comment doesn't produce the message when I edit it. I cut and pasted the previous message, leaving out what I thought might be misunderstood, posted it, then tried to edit it ... and got the red message. I tried several times ... and every time I got the red message when I edited it and the posting disappeared when I restarted the video. The posting was about the anti-semitic response outside Germany to the Jewish involvement in the foundation of the German State. Very odd.

[@MentorPublicLib]

Not sure what happened. I didn't delete any of your comments.

[@jordanpeters3746]

@@MentorPublicLib I just tried pasting the same message again a minute ago ... and got the red message on editing it ... and it vanished when I restarted the video. I'll past it again and restart the video without editing. Nope ...its vanished. Could be that something in the message got flagged? I can't see what the "error" might be independent of "content criticism".

[@MentorPublicLib]

@@jordanpeters3746 Our channel is pre-set to hold some comments for review before they are published. It prevents spam and some blatant hate speech. However, I'm not seeing any comments from you in our Held for Review queue.

[@jordanpeters3746]

@@MentorPublicLib I suspect the problem is: "Jewish B^^^^^s" and "Jewish G**d"... phrases commonly used by anti-semites. I've given up trying to post it. Even leaving out these words doesn't allow it to be posted ... if its been flagged then the whole thing has come to "something's" notice. I'm not "distressed" by this (if its happening) ... impressed really.

[@scottzike1054]

camera angle is better .. but he is still using the uhh crutch well PAST the point of distraction ..

[@ianmacpherson6093]

I’m not sure if you’ve ever been to a real academic talk before but most speakers don’t have Hollywood level delivery skills

[@scottzike1054]

@@ianmacpherson6093 Actually most folks that speak in front of others understand "distractors" and work to remove them from their presentations

[@robertalpy9422]

You mean an Army in possession of the state,not the state in possession of an army.

[@towerman123]

Closed-caption this lecture please.

[@tuabumopolo3238]

Why?

[@250txc]

30:44 fix the maps to show the borders!

[@JackAShepherd]

I died at the Seinfeld reference 'cause I was thinking exactly this re: "City Planner!"

[@mcfontaine]

Fantastic detail. Thank you.

[@DasKammergericht]

Except for that detail.about Friedrich III. being the elder brother of Wilhelm II! That was, in fact, a father-son relationship.

[@tremblence]

Garbage details He skips over Hitler's book like its not important to research What an idiot; you could spend hours talking about that book and Hitler's worldview and this guy says "yeah Hitler wrote a book, no one read it, anyways next slide" Don't be a dumbass and think this lecturer is good; clearly he has a bias and omits crucial information

[@flagflow1232]

Wilhelm was Frederick's son, not his brother.

[@xshorty913x]

I really liked this lecture for the most part. But to say that National-Socialists only called themselfs socialists to attract the left leaning workingclass goes way to short. Its much more complicated than that.

[@Ccccccccccsssssssssss]

Excellent lecture, thanks for uploading!

[@tannopk]

Is this part of a speaking tour or is this a college class?

[@MentorPublicLib]

Neither, actually. John Foster is one of our reference librarians who also happens to have his doctorate in history with a specialization in modern Germany.

[@yunusemresoylu7756]

He is a great lecturer, I like his lectures,they are very informative and interesting but he need to improve his speaking skills a little bit.

[@tremblence]

Garbage lecturer He skips over Hitler's book like its not important to research One could spend hours talking about that book and Hitler's worldview, yet this guy says "yeah Hitler wrote a book, no one read it, anyways next slide" Don't be a dumbass and think this lecturer is good; clearly he has a bias and omits crucial information

[@_________-__________-_______]

i love hearing Videos like this while i dont even know what they are talking about

[@dariowiter3078]

Then why the hell did you watch this video if you didn't understand it, dummy? 😠

[@_________-__________-_______]

Dario Witer boredom i think? Either way this was 4 years ago, I should re watch it

[@thomasdonovan3580]

Thanks, I loved it.

[@xavseq727]

It's a great lecture, but it is not on the rise of National Socialism

[@jeepcherokee1226]

I love these talks, you know. 😄

[@JackAShepherd]

Lots of salty Hannity fans in the comments 🤢

[@ElenaKomleva]

He shouldn't apologize so much. Like when he tried to make a point that National Socialists didn't just decide "let's destroy a bunch of Jews for no reason". Also, every regime has good and bad aspects. Yes, even National Socialism, I'm sure; and I am saying this as someone whose grandparents fought and even died in the World War against fascism. I know this because they demonize Communism in the West, yet communism did some great things, like educate literally everyone very fast, very effectively (so that starting with our great-grandparents generation, no matter what tiny village you'd go to everyone everywhre could read, write, and not just count but know math) and give people from lower classes the opportunities they could never dream of having. My own family is an example: My grandparents were coming from a family of poor peasants yet became an eye surgeon (grandmother) and psychiatrist, head of the psychiatric hospital (grandfather). Also the rights of women. To this day there are more female doctors in Russia than male doctors. Way more female scientists and especially engineers. So I am sure that National Socialism also did good things. Unfortunately, history is written by the winners, so unless we know something from first hand experience, we only get a demonized version of every other political regime.

[@furarao2001]

People say that Mein Kampt is a terrible book, but this is a strategy to encourage people not to read it.

[@paigetomkinson1137]

Oh yes, because everything is an evil conspiracy out to get you.

[@bigbowlowrong4694]

It is rather boring imo

[@ianmacpherson6093]

Are you a nazi sympathizer?

[@WarReport.]

Germany was one of the least anti semetic countries before 1933

[@tmuchakw816]

At the beginnig of 20 Century German Jews actually were pro-nationalistic and consider themself as a part of Imperial Germany, Everything change with Wersal Threaty and total disaster at home with no jobs and high price of rent and food .At this time average German person sees that welthy Jews makes a fortunes buying homes and buisneses at a very low price. NSDAP and AH used propaganda blaming all Jews for all bad decisions . In 1933 only Catholics and Conservatives were in oposition to Nazis and that is why NSDAP won democratic vote and AH get elected.

[@dannysharkDS]

@@tmuchakw816 Nice try, Jew

[@bigfloppaism996]

@@tmuchakw816 the Catholic Church heavily supported the national socialists lmao

[@raytar84]

@@bigfloppaism996 You should not believe everything You've heard in TV my friend. I know that Wikipedia is not perfect but sometimes it is nice place to start: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_persecution_of_the_Catholic_Church_in_Germany

[@kawaiidestruktor7809]

@@bigfloppaism996 No, and obviously it was not going to happen due to Hitler's vision about catholicism, read mein kampf, where he says that he was born catholic.

[@robwyness8665]

While I am happy to accept you cannot talk about Nazism without talking about the Jews, we have to remember that when it comes to the genocide and ethnic cleansing by the Nazis, the Jews dominate - almost exclusively - that discussion. We have to include everyone. Everyone.

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

1:18:15 - LMAO

[@davidhallett8783]

Aaah this guy aaah is aaah hard to listen to

[@danelirimescu6832]

I live in canada now but I love europe so I am interested in european history. My country of origin was in lived in ww 2 on the german side ! The good thing is that when Russians made honour borders our king adbiced by mist important politicians arrested the dictator so romanian army turned around siding with the allies. Romanian army liberated Hungary and Czechoslovakia together with the russians. We had to choose between 2 evils but I guess we did for the Anglo Americans. Unfortunately the Russian imposed communism in eastern europe. I am educated good family, speak 5 european languages. Not only that but I am tall blue eyes, blondish but I hate nazism. I would rather have neighborhood watch rather than Gestapo watch !

[@ElenaKomleva]

@@brasilien4526 You sound pretty radical. Communism did have good aspects to it! It created education and career opportunities for children no matter what family they came from. My own family is an example: My great-grandparents were poor peasants, yet, thanks to communism my grandparents became an eye-surgeon (grandmother) and a psychiatrist, head of the psychiatric hospital (grandfather). Also equal opportunities for women. To this day there are many female engineers in Russia and Eastern Europe and more female doctors than male doctors for example.

[@maxklein329]

Two statements I disagree with, one is he disliked socialism, as I'd consider him a die-hard socialist and the other, that he had an Austrian accent, as I can tell as I native German speaker, I wouldn't even notice.

[@eversor431]

Talk about completely missing the point. Apparently printing money does not cause inflation. It is trade or something. Forgive me for not taking your opinions on any other matter seriously. Such as the Socialist party with the word Socialist in the name was not, in fact, Socialist. They were not Marxists; they were National (race) Socialists.

[@ianmacpherson6093]

What does it mean to you to be a “Marxist”?

[@MisterDragonbeard]

Dr you keep veering into economics in these presentations. You are not an economist. Unless you decide to familiarize yourself with more than one interpretation and bother to state the various economic perspectives I suggest you not state your own conclusions to cause and remedy. It's distracting.

[@farkaskj]

Oh geez, the smartest guy in the room just showed up.

[@robertalpy9422]

A bad historian mentions politics from now and tries to understand the past through modern political thinking. Be a social scientist or a historian...you can not be both and be good at either.

[@kevinashcroft2028]

It's probably unnecessary to express a distaste for authoritarianism witin the concept of a duality where democracy is perceived to be lord and master of all National functions. I must disseminate from my above comment to find the aristocratic community far more interesting and commanding of the English language than any "chip on the shoulder liberal" I have ever met. Danke.

[@bobbowie5334]

Librarians *shouldn't opine* about history.