McPherson
Banned
The Weimar Republic has always been a step child in European history, much like the Reconstruction Era has been in the United States, when an opportunity for a grand settlement and adjustment of an extremely dangerous festering issue was sidestepped, instead of confronted head on and the reforms necessary delayed until catastrophe struck.
In the American case, slavery and the resultant racism engendered was never really reconciled as it should have been after the American Civil War in the 1870s when the best chance to fix the problem first appeared, and the criminal system that replaced slavery and fostered those racial hatreds was not completely eliminated to the detriment of the American polity as late as the 1960s. (No current politics.)
The European problem after the Great War was Germany. There was a chance with a little more circumspect thought within the Reich and without, that the social problems which led to the Great War could be solved within Europe, but as in the case with America, with the wreckage of the Confederacy and "The Lost Cause" myth that grew from the revaunchists who refused to accept the real true situation of a sedition and an evil suppressed (Leading to a regional economic massive dislocation, the American South became radicalized into a kind of proto-fascism.), the post WWI root European problem was a wrecked Germany and "The Stab in the Back" myth and the radicalization of German politics that resulted in the eventual rise of Hitlerism and the Nazis.
I've always thought that economics might have been a major stoking fire of that radicalization in both cases. Young men out of work and with no future geared in family and with time on their hands to brood about the senseless stupid pointless war they lost equals a recipe for political instability and disaster.
So I put up a poll and I invite some comments as to whether or not there was something that could be done to do better than the feeble attempts that were made internally and externally to stabilize Germany?
Here is what I mean by a feeble attempt; The Dawes Plan.
Pathetic. Can we do better in an ATL?
In the American case, slavery and the resultant racism engendered was never really reconciled as it should have been after the American Civil War in the 1870s when the best chance to fix the problem first appeared, and the criminal system that replaced slavery and fostered those racial hatreds was not completely eliminated to the detriment of the American polity as late as the 1960s. (No current politics.)
The European problem after the Great War was Germany. There was a chance with a little more circumspect thought within the Reich and without, that the social problems which led to the Great War could be solved within Europe, but as in the case with America, with the wreckage of the Confederacy and "The Lost Cause" myth that grew from the revaunchists who refused to accept the real true situation of a sedition and an evil suppressed (Leading to a regional economic massive dislocation, the American South became radicalized into a kind of proto-fascism.), the post WWI root European problem was a wrecked Germany and "The Stab in the Back" myth and the radicalization of German politics that resulted in the eventual rise of Hitlerism and the Nazis.
I've always thought that economics might have been a major stoking fire of that radicalization in both cases. Young men out of work and with no future geared in family and with time on their hands to brood about the senseless stupid pointless war they lost equals a recipe for political instability and disaster.
So I put up a poll and I invite some comments as to whether or not there was something that could be done to do better than the feeble attempts that were made internally and externally to stabilize Germany?
Here is what I mean by a feeble attempt; The Dawes Plan.
Pathetic. Can we do better in an ATL?