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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp
Was that when he was imprisoned?
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Yes, and whilst imprisoned wrote Mein Kampf.
I wrote the dissertation for my degree on the Weimar Republic, as seen through the works of Englishman Christopher Irsherwood. It was a fascinating time in history, as Germany for the first three decades of the twentieth century, had been one of the most liberal and free thinking countries in Europe, yet so easily turned to extremist politics, in my opinion because of the measures introduced by the Treaty of Versialles.
I had a wonderful summer in 1985, retracing Isherwood's journey. What I found saddest, fifty years on, and post-Nazi atocities, was how quickly seemingly liberal Germans were so racist towards the sizable Turkish community living there.