#weimer republic

[carsonjonesfiance]

Every time I read this paragraph about Ernst Thalmann, leader of the German Communist Party, in the latter days of the Weimer Republic I feel like staring into the camera like I’m on The Office.

[ceasarslegion]

caesar. ceasar who was mysweetstruggles. why. hitler kin? what. what. hello???

Mysweetstruggles was a blog that existed for a wild, wild few months way back in the day. I was still in high school when the whole thing happened.

When the height of tumblr kin drama was tearing this site's reading comprehension asunder, folks claimed that "kinning" something meant that you literally, actually, legitimately were whatever character or object you claimed to kin. If you kinned komaeda, it's because you believed you literally were komaeda. This was complete with claims about having "kin memories," which were repressed memories of your past lives of whatever you kinned. The kin drama often came in the form of other kinnies demanding you face "accountability" for the actions of the mostly fictional characters folks would kin, and claims of others "faking it" by being "doubles" of yours. As if uh... as if komaeda is a real person and not a guy a writer came up with. On the other end of the spectrum, people were writing callout posts for folks who tagged their art as "kin" for either kin drama reasons or because they were so anti-kinning that they looped back around to being extremists in their own right.

It was a weird place to be. Nowadays when people claim to "kin" something it's mostly because they really identify with that thing or historical person or character, not because they claim they literally ARE that thing. Let's all breathe easy and count our blessings that that fresh piece of hell is over.

Anyway, mysweetstruggles came onto the scene in the height of the old kin drama. She claimed that she was kin with uh... Adolf Hitler. She claimed that she was Hitler in a past life and that she she reborn as a neurodivergent Jewish girl so she could "atone for [her] past sins." For obvious reasons, this stirred a lot of shit at the time, because it was also the height of when tumblr thought that reading American Psycho meant that you personally wanted to murder all sex workers with axes irl. Not that I'm equating these two, I'm pointing out that the morality crusaders were even worse then than they are now, so a blog like this got a LOT more attention than it probably should have.

Anyway, it went on for a while where she would post about how sorry she was for the holocaust in the unique crytyping style of when you wanted to communicate that you were upset or ashamed of something on the 2010s internet. She got tons of asks asking what the hell was wrong with her and she'd post every single one with replies about how she "couldn't control her kin" and how "she had memories of her past that had to be hitler" and that she realized she was kin with Hitler during history class when she recognized her kin memories as Hitler's.

In the middle of all this, she would also post aesthetic edits of weimer republic cinema and things that looked both German and from the 1940s at the same time, suspiciously. It was never outright swastikas but it was about 2 steps removed from a roman eagle and an iron cross.

And then when all the hate she inevitably got from this came to a head, she made an absolutely legendary post where she claimed to be her older sister, claiming that all the tumblr hate had led to the cops being called on their house, that "Addy" was arrested for having a mental breakdown, dragged to an "insane asylum," and that she was never going to be let out again. It had a good dollop of "you guys did this by hating on a teenage girl who claimed she was reincarnated Hitler."

The blog stayed up for a good few months after that post and then was deactivated for good. But you can still find screenshots of her posts if you type her URL into Google images

EDIT: I FORGOT ABOUT HER CLAIM THAT HITLER WAS GAY AND THAT HOMOPHOBIA WAS WHY HE WAS FORCED TO DATE EVA BRAUN INSTEAD OF HERMAN GÖRING...

[mylifenoir]

I've come late to the German series, Babylon Berlin. I can't praise it enough. This is incredible, stylish storytelling. It's flash and substance. This is better Television than Hollywood has ever produced. Once again, Netflix connects its customers to great content being produced around the world.

Babylon Berlin is set in 1929 Berlin, during the decline of the Weimer Republic and the rise of National Socialism. It depicts that grime and despair hiding beneath the glitzy hedonism of the Roaring Twenties.

[boghermit]

Weimer Republic ass egg prices

[elanorfmpimedia]

Otto dix

Otto Dix is an artist that lived through both world wars, and whose are was shaped by the conflicts.

He was a German painter who was highly critical of the Weimer republic, when Nazi's came into power he was denounced and fired from his job at an academy, forced to draw inoffensive landscapes

While his art criticising his leaders was often Satirical, his work about the conflicts were gritty, black and white, and haunting.

[philgennuso]

Tales From The Weimer Republic Eva's Story #1

Eva In The Weimer Republic by Phil Gennuso Arts Eva beautiful Evaso lovely so youngriding once across Old Berlinduring those hectic destructive times And now in New Yorkon the underground subwaysholding on for dear lifewith a smile a prayerand a hand over her heart Eva dear Evaso young and preciousyearning for peacestill searchingfor her lost…

[lesbian-moon-gf]

In 2009, Rep Joe Wilson shouted "You lie!" to then President Obama and everyone pretty much talked about it being unprecedented and let's be honest racist. It's not that I expect much from the genocider Weimer Republic, but my fucking god. Decorum? They're still talking about fucking decorum???

Some Democrats said they expect leadership to take a harder tack going forward to prevent these moments of public disunity from happening ahead of time. Said a second House Democrat who spoke anonymously: "It doesn't surprise me leadership is very upset. They gave specific instructions not to do that." "Would they have done that to [Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi]? You know the answer: Never," the lawmaker said. "So you've got to put the hammer down."

What a way to admit that your current guy has less juice than an octogenarian whose brain rebooted on live TV four years ago. Absolutely rudderless boatload of clowns.

[hellodelraybabe]

My Roman Empire list (as a person who identifies as a woman):

Taylor Swift

The Library of Alexandria

Space in general

The Weimer Republic/WWII

The Cuban Missile Crisis

The fall of the USSR/ Vladimir Putin

The Chernobyl Nuclear Accident

Ancient Greece

Hozier

Adding on my newest one:

• my boyfriend Jacob with his glasses on

[obsidian-sphere]

Girls of Weimar Berlin by Barbara Ulrich, 1927.

[rainydaypaperback]

A MODERN DANCE OF DEATH - by Frans Fiedler- German Weimer Republic

A weird and wonderful album of life's dance with sex, love and death by the eccentric photographer Franz Fiedler (1885-1956). which shows a nude woman with a skeleton in various erotic poses. The preceding text, tells about death who is a fool and her playmate. A wonderful and in every sense of the world unique album, made against the backdrop of unstable Weimar republic, in which hedonism, sex and fear where indeed intimated companions. Fiedler won at the 1911 world exhibition in Turin the first prize and had another exhibition in Prague in 1913. He belonged to the circle of Jaroslav Hašek and Egon Erwin Kisch and in 1916 married Erna Hauswald in Dresden where he occupied astudio at Sedanstraße 7. From 1919, he began to work with a 9×12 folding camera and in 1924 became one of the first professional photographers to use a Leica. After expanding his studio in 1925, he took part in the exhibition "Film und Foto" in Stuttgart. The outstanding publication on the city of Dresden, conceived in the spirit of Die Neue Sachlichkeit, is one of the first illustrated works created according to the new principles of photography. It marks a turning point in his work. Fiedler's studio was destroyed on 13 February 1945. All that was left was a box with photographs for an exhibition which was deposited with his family in Moravia. After 1945 he did not have his own studio and earned a living in the GDR as author of books on photography. Anneliese Kretschmer, Dortmund, is one of his pupils.

[zuko-always-lies]

The postwar Fire Nation is primed for a “stab in the back myth,” which wouldn’t even be totally a myth. The Fire Nation was on the verge of victory, and only lost due to a handful of traitors(Zuko, Iroh, Piandao, Jeong Jeong), one of which who proclaimed himself Firelord in the aftermath. The level of anger and resentment which develops in the postwar Fire Nation is likely to exceed anything the Weimer Republic experienced(at the very least the Weimer Republic had strong social bases in the SPD and the Centre Party. Zuko’s regime has nothing).

[warsofasoiaf]

Do you think the weimer republic could have sorted it's issues and survived? Or did it have too many factors against it? I feel even if hitler never comes to power there would have been another right wing group like the old prussian militarists to fill the gap, but if it had avoided some of the bad economic choices (like endlessly printing money to pay for versailles) it could have survived as well. It seems it could really have gone either way?

I actually discussed that in my podcast series on the Weimar Republic on @boiledleather. Essentially, what could have been done to forestall the rise of Adolf Hitler, and what would the shape of Germany had been. Kurt von Schleicher could potentially have had an aristocratic German state, which would still have probably caused problems on its eastern border, that's one route. Bruhning not trying to crash the government with intentionally bad economic policy and the government utilizing the Schwartz-Rot-Guld to beat down the SA and the Rotkampferbund was another, which would have been similar to France in the 1930's with open street brawling. Stresemann not dying might have also seen a successful coalition of parties and used sensible economic policies to help weather the Depression, possibly using Argentina and the UK to help replace lost US funding - it'd be a hard slog until about 1933-35ish.

While the mistruths about exactly who could have stopped Hitler when is one of my all-time pet peeves of bad history, there were ways that it could be written that is both realistic and sensible.

Thanks for the question, Cat.

SomethingLikeALawyer, Hand of the King

[djohnhopper]

FAVOURITE SINGERS: Lotte Lenya.

I have been a fan of Berthold Brecht, Kurt Weill, and Lotte Lenya, since I was a late teenager. I loved that huge burst of creative energy that was the Weimer Republic, snuffed out by the clinical madness of the nazis. And as to the voice of Lotte Lenya - perfect. Others have sung Brecht/Weill, but no one quite like Lotte Lenya. Her singing Surabaya Johnny has to be a real, all-time favourite.

[andthentheywilleatthestars]

Sucks that a lot of the people that were hurt the most by the Knot also depended on it for their existence. I wanted to see Hanno Tauber get to live his best Weimer Republic twink life