(Thank you, Nina, for making the first post.)
Mr. Belk said act like a citizen, and this is me acting like a citizen. Don't judge me. :3
So, basically, I'm about to take my strudel and bounce. Weimar is a failcake and I'm through. Serious business, why pull us out of the war when we could have won? So close, so close, and then, NEIN. 'Sorry guys, we are pulling out and giving an early Christmas present to the Allies- our land and economy.' Fröhliches Weihnachten, world, I'm about to starve because we gave away the land with food. Thanks, you big jerks. I enjoy playing my ribs like a xylophone. We can't exactly repay our 'debt' when we are starving, can we? How is it they think it's beneficial that after so many of our workforce died, we are going to give money we don't have and can't make more of to everyone else? And then, the Allies are going to let us do it- fools, won't it mess with their economy too? 'Oh, no, we're just going to let them print looooots and loooots of money! That should work! We won the war, we must is be smarterest than thems! AHAHA.' No. On the bright side, this hyperinflation keeps my fire going. I get to burn money because it's worthless. I never thought I'd see the day...
And, really, Weimar keeps acting like pansies and not doing anything, knowing people are trying to do them in! I wouldn't mind a coup d'etat if it made things easier instead of worse. I doubt any of those parties would have made us sign a treaty that was made to suck us dry. War Guilt Clause...really. Some people could argue it's Belgium's fault, but I don't see them having to pay billions of dollars. I don't see them starving. They have waffles, the wanna-be Frenchies. Now we're dependent on the people who were fighting against us in the first place- WAY TO FAIL. It's shameful, Old Fritz would smack you with a wurst if he knew how we are stuck between a rock and a hard place- debt and more debt.
So, I guess Weimar doesn't really care what the people think, because they aren't doing anything to make me believe in them. If we had only stayed in the war we might not have even been in this mess- how can they say we were losing? But, whatever, because I'm done with this German failure. I don't want to see a weak government who rolls over at other nation's commands. How can they represent us when they're too busy licking the boots of our enemies? I'm heading to Russia.
Privyet, Comrade Lenin!
Ahahaha I can't help myself. >>;;
-Forgive me if I made a little mistake or two in my German. Since I haven't spoken it in a while, I'm rusty. If you see a mistake, please point it out so I can fix it...Spasibo do svidana, dochenkas. :)
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I have to say, you make some good arguments, but I had to pinpoint the thing about the Weimar government not caring what the people wanted. Because of the Navy blockade Britain smacked Germany with back when the war was still going, people were already starving on the home front. I found one site that let me know the meat rations per week in 1916 (a good couple years before the war ended!) were less than modern people eat in two days.
ReplyDeleteIt seems to me that the Weimar government was trying to alleviate this issue, and to do that they had to first make things worse for a while. Isn't that how many things work?
I'd say this is less of the Weimar government's fault, and more of the Allies'. We can't be sure that Germany would have won the war either way. If luck had turned against them and they had been forced to surrender, I can't imagine that the Treaty of Versailles would have been any more forgiving. With that said, Germany still would have had to pay reparations.
The real wrong-doing in this situation, in MY opinion, is that Germany was forced to pay entirely outlandish sums for reparations. The other countries had to have known that the price was impossible.
Ahaha I see where you are coming from, and I agree with you. But if I was a German citizen in that situation, I doubt I could think logically like that. I would blame the Allies, but I would blame my government for bowing down to them. Two days in power and then KABAM? I would be sort of ticked.
ReplyDeleteThen again, I would have already moved to Russia at this point if I was alive back then. Bruahahaha.
Kayla my dochenka- amazingly fierce post. I felt your German rage! haha but anyways I agree with most of your issues about the Weimar, why were they such failcakes?! Your point about not having the money to repay, and then later relying on our enemies for help, its all just crap. For one, the idea of the Dawes Plan was that alhtough the debt was still in place Germany could pay it off in incriments BUT NO!!! the weimar had to reject that. In Katie's post she says "I'd say this is less of the Weimar government's fault, and more of the Allies'" Quick question on that: are you implying that our allies werent reliable? Cause if so i agree. They somewhat helped us in the war but as soon as the weimar stepped in and we 'lost them' we got pinned with the guilt. Why didnt they have to pay for reparations and such? They were just as ready to push forward in the war as we were, since they were our supporters...Overall i agree with you Kayla and i will gladly move to Russia with you!
ReplyDeleteI completely agree, Adam. After, all that GErmany was forced upon, the Dawes Plan was the one decent ray of hope for a semi-ok future, but was clouded by those inadequate Weimar official's "ideas." Paying the war reparations in increments, its brilliant! What happened to that?? Anyway, I agree with Kayla also, when she mentions how shameful it was that Germany had to rely on our enemy countries for aid after we had signed the War Guilt Clause. We signed our own letter of shame and weakness. How ironic life can be. We come off so haughty and proud, then are forced to sign guilt papers. I refuse to believe that it was our supercilious behavior that led us to our fate, there is someone to blame.
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