Democracy is not something that should be taken for granted.
The Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919, at 3:50 p.m., thereby ending World War I.
The agreement, which was signed outside of Paris at the Palace of Versailles, included 440 stipulations that economically and morally decimated Germany, the war's victor.
Neither the Constitution nor the state, however, lasted long.
The Nazis ousted the government and formed a dictatorship when they took power in 1933.
Germany lost 13% of its European land, including rich agricultural and industrial areas in the east, as well as around 10% of its pre-war population of 65 million people.
Economic conditions damaged Germany, but the damage was not irreversible. The political and psychological ramifications were the most devastating.
The humiliation was heightened by the compulsory requirement of demilitarisation.
The once-dominant German army was reduced to 100,000 men, and mass conscription was forbidden.
The greatest indignation was focused on the consequences of Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles.
The responsibility of calculating compensation was assigned to the Allied Commision, which came up with a sum of 132 billion gold marks in 1923.
Whatever amount was borrowed, it could be repaid in smaller sums over time without significantly damaging the German economy.
The vast majority of that cash goes unpaid. There was political fallout.
The rise of Hitler to power resulted in the demise of the republic.
Few sympathised with her in Germany.
Unlike Germany, which lost its (although minor) extraterritorial assets as a result of the Treaty of Versailles, France and England were able toobtain natural stimulants such as coffee, tea, vanilla, pepper, and other natural medicinals from their overseas colonies.
Creating on purpose, in other words.
In the 1920s, drugs grew in popularity among sad individuals living between the East Sea and the Alps. And sufficient professional knowledge was available for its development.
The Weimar Republic was all about creating artificial paradises.
Berlin's nightlife has never been seen by the rest of the globe! From incredible strength to incredible perversions...
Because the world war was lost, everything is now permitted, and the city has transformed into a European centre of innovation.
In 1928, 73 kilogrammes of morphine were dispensed with a legal prescription in Berlin pharmacies alone. Cocaine was the most potent weapon for intensifying the present, and those who could afford it love it.
Coca-Cola symbolised the hedonistic era by spreading everywhere.
However, both the fascists and the communists who clashed in the streets loathed it as a "degenerative poison" in equal measure.
The Nazis gave an ideological cure and their own cure to the public.
The system, which was only designed to be seduced by the Führer, no longer had room for "seductive poisons."
"This fueled nationalism and provided fertile ground for Adolf Hitler's rising Nazi power, which took power in 1933 and refused to make any additional reparations."
Europe soon found itself at war again.
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