"Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis" (Dwhite95)
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"Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis" (Dwhite95)
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Klaus Schmoll
> Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis
11/07/2013 at 14:30 |
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And ingnorant reddit users get it wrong AGAIN.
In 1918/19 Germany didn't have the red white and gold flag.
dinobot666
> Klaus Schmoll
11/07/2013 at 14:46 |
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Versailles wasn't even a treaty, it was more of an armistice for 20 years. :)
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Klaus Schmoll
> dinobot666
11/07/2013 at 14:57 |
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That's hard to say. It was kind of a treaty as it contained the payments Germany had to make and the other restrictions like army size, no heavy industry etc...
desertdog5051
> Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis
11/07/2013 at 15:04 |
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I guess I have to settle this. It's a building in France.
El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!
> Klaus Schmoll
11/07/2013 at 15:20 |
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Funny that Germany today uses yellow, even without Austria, I wonder if that's because Austrians themselves don't use yellow anymore, as yellow actually meant the Habsburg Empire. Guess that an Imperial Germany that includes Austria would look like this, much ?
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dinobot666
> Klaus Schmoll
11/07/2013 at 15:22 |
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I was kind of joking there, and really, the treaty ended up being a total joke.
duurtlang
> dinobot666
11/07/2013 at 15:36 |
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It depends how you define 'joke'. It was very influential, I'd argue the treaty enabled the environment which caused the the Nazi party to come to power. It was a joke in that it didn't exactly prevent war.
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dinobot666
> duurtlang
11/07/2013 at 15:50 |
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My sentiments exactly.
On that note, did you know that when the French capitulated to the Nazis, that Hitler had the same train car where the Germans signed the treaty of Versailles pulled out of a museum and made the French sign it in the train car?
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duurtlang
> dinobot666
11/07/2013 at 15:52 |
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I certainly did. High school history class and/or Discovery channel from a decade ago were very informative. This train anecdote does underline the effect the Versailles treaty had on German psyche.
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Klaus Schmoll
> El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!
11/07/2013 at 15:56 |
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Well the red black and gold flag has been around for much longer. In 1817 at the Wartburg festival students in favor of unification and democracy sported it and they weren't even the first.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wartburg_…
wacopalypsenow
> Klaus Schmoll
11/07/2013 at 17:09 |
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"army size, no heavy industry"
Sorry, always wanted an appropriate time to use that pic
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Klaus Schmoll
> wacopalypsenow
11/07/2013 at 17:34 |
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Yeah, well it's not that easy!
During the Weimar years they showed a lot of good will to get the worst of these restrictions and debts lifted. But the Versailles treaty still helped the Nazis in their campaigns.
With posters like this they got people to oppose the Young-plan. "You will have to do slave labour unto the third generation!"
So while the Versailles restrictions and payment plans made it easy for the Austrian painter to win elections, once he was in power, he still was careful to renegotiate and/or not break too many of them at once.
Well, at least in the beginning. When he saw that the others would let him get away with it, he got bolder and bolder...
AMC/Renauledge
> Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis
11/07/2013 at 19:00 |
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I'm confused.