I can’t get this out of my head.
The Weimar Republic were heavily in debt to the US. After the Wall Street crash, debts had to be called in quickly. Chaos ensued. It was not the printing money at the root of hyperinflation and I know why it’s a kind of Godwin’s law. The Eurocrisis will cause wider shocks. I don’t know how big, I don’t know enough about that stuff. I do know that the parallels here have to be made with the understanding the US position in this story, is no longer occupied by the US. Or at least they are not at the top of that chain.
I don’t know why I can’t get it out of my head, I am planning on reading a stonking book I have received on that particular period, but haven’t yet found the time. If it is sticking there I might as well put it here.
Post dedicated to Charlie Rigg. Head of History, Stranraer Academy, 1993.
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