Crash Course
Post-World War I Recovery: Crash Course European History
In which John Green looks at Europe's attempts to recover from the devastation of World War I and forge a lasting peace. The peace did not last. Today we're talking about the economic cultural recovery of the 1920s, and the economic...
Curated Video
The Kaiser Played with Fire | The Life & Times of Wihlelm II
Right after World War One was a hell of a time for democracy in Europe, y’know the Great War was a tragedy but on the other end of it look at all these new Republics! Germany’s a Republic now, Austria-Hungary’s split up into independent...
History Squad
An SS Major
SS-Sturmbannführer Lange gives a straight talking account of his reasons for joining the SS. From his service in WW1 to the Second World War, this character makes no excuse for his choices. The History Squad - Kevin Hicks.
Step Back History
The Weimar Republic
This week, we're going to look at the dead, shortlived Weimar Republic. Germany in the age between the World Wars. How did a burgeoning social democracy, one of the most progressive countries on earth, fall to reactionary far-right...
History Squad
A Nazi Nurse
A chilling monologue from a young nurse recruited into the T4 euthanasia programme. She tells how she became a Nazi Party member and was inspired by Hitler, and how she believed that what she was doing was for the good of her country....
Bridgeman Arts
Chancellor Gustave Stresemann, 1920s
Chancellor Gustav Stresemann and others at Parliament and working (includes photograph inside Parliament).
Bridgeman Arts
Berlin Mayor, Gustav Böß, speaks at the opening of an exhibition. Berlin 1924-1928
Exhibition hall, from outside and inside. Mayor Gustav Böß speaking at official opening of an exhibition. Photos of the Berlin Magistrate highlighting Ernst Reuter, responsible for transportation.
Bridgeman Arts
Baumblütenfest, Werder 1924-1928
Baumblütenfest, Werder 1924-1928. People leaving the city for the festival, arriving at the event and enjoying the blossom.
Bridgeman Arts
Industry in Berlin, 1924-1928
Industry in Berlin, 1924-1928. Men arriving at a factory, workers welding and hammering. Shots of the Berlin harbour with cargo ships, crates and freighting.
Bridgeman Arts
Heinrich Brüning, Ernst Thälmann, Joseph Goebbels etc Berlin 1929
Heinrich Brüning, Ernst Thälmann, Joseph Goebbels and others during the election campaign, 1929 Berlin.
Bridgeman Arts
Film set, 1920s
On set of a film production at Babelsberg Studios (unconfirmed) in the 1920s. Exact date and film unknown.
Bridgeman Arts
Opening of German Press and Pergamon Museum as well as artists Max Oppermann and Max Liebermann at work, Berlin 1930
The official opening of the house of the German Press (Der Deutschen Presse). Opening of the Pergamon Museum. Scenes of artists Max Opperman and Max Liebermann at work.
Bridgeman Arts
New year's eve party, Berlin, 1920s
New year's eve fireworks, Berlin. A lively party with champagne, cocktails and dancing. 1920s.
Bridgeman Arts
Skiing in the Berchtesgadener Alps
Eva Braun and friends skiing in the Berchtesgadener Alps. The group compete against each other in a short slalom using Nazi party flags as the markers. 1930/40s.
Bridgeman Arts
Aerial shots of Berlin, 1920s
Aerial shots of Berlin. Berlin airport, Berlin Dom, museum island, Brandenburg Gate, Reichstag building and Victory column. General street scenes with pedestrians and traffic, circa 1920.
Bridgeman Arts
French President George Clemenceau arrives for the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, 1919
French President George Clemenceau arrives for the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, 1919
Bridgeman Arts
German Revolution 1919, Wilhelm II in exile, Philipp Scheidemann proclaims German Republic, ceasefire in France, happy soldiers, end of WW1
German Revolution 1919, Wilhelm II in exile, Philipp Scheidemann proclaims German Republic, ceasefire in France, happy soldiers, end of WW1. (happy soldiers may be actors)
Bridgeman Arts
President Ebert and Walter Rathenau, Berlin 1920s
WWI veterans demonstrate for peace on the streets of Berlin. President Ebert addresses crowds of soldiers at Berliner Dom. Various shots of Foreign Minister Walter Rathenau followed by photographs of the spot where he was assassinated....
Bridgeman Arts
Uprising in Germany after WW1. Spartacus League and Bavarian Soviet Republic, 1919
Uprising in Germany after WW1. Spartacus League and Bavarian Soviet Republic, 1919
Bridgeman Arts
Germans return to homeland, poverty in germany, workers' riots, December 1918.
Germans return to homeland, poverty in germany, workers' riots, December 1918.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Ap Us History: More Detail on the Treaty of Versailles and Germany
Discusses the conditions that the Treaty of Versailles imposed on Germany and how these fueled discontent and contributed to the rise of Nazism and eventually the outbreak of World War II. [6:20]