what exactly was the Weimar Republic?
By: Noble @noble_x_x_
We’re often told Western societies are experiencing conditions reminiscent of the German Weimar Republic
But what exactly was the Weimar Republic?
I’d like to explain the republic
…and its incredible levels of debauchery, meaninglessness, sex, drugs and—of course—Jews
“The decay of moral values in all areas of life—the period of deepest German degradation—coincided exactly with the height of German Jewish power in Germany.”
First, a disclaimer:
The accompanying video is from a progressive documentary. It’s biassed against the National Socialists and views everything in a sex-positive light. I think you’ll see though, what the film attempts to portray as healthy sexual relationships, comes out appearing to be nothing more than debauchery.
History
The Weimar Republic is the unofficial name—that was popularised by Adolf Hitler—of the German nation-state that existed from November of 1918 to March of 1933. It was named for the city of Weimar, Germany where the constitutional assembly that established the new German republic met. The official name of the republic was the German Reich.
The Weimar Republic was established after Germany’s loss in WWI. Germany was forced under the Treaty of Versailles to accept “full responsibility” for the war and pay the debts of all the allied countries. Being forced to pay these massive debts devastated the German economy and skyrocketed inflation, unemployment, and suicide within Germany. At one point 40% of Germans were unemployed and many were homeless. In 1932, the German suicide rate was more than three times that of Great Britain and in one two-year period, Germany had more suicides than there had been deaths of American soldiers in all of WWI. The German currency became the most worthless currency in Europe. A loaf of bread in Berlin that cost around 160 German Marks at the end of 1922, cost 200,000,000,000 German Marks by late 1923. The German peoples’ life savings and purchasing power had melted away over the course of a few months.
With a single US dollar being worth 4,210,500,000,000 German Marks by November of 1923, foreign currencies had much greater buying power in Germany. So naturally, foreigners flocked to Germany to take advantage of the cheap prices. With these foreigners arriving en masse, Germans desperate for work turned to one of primary industries the foreigners flocked to Germany for: the sex industry.
Further Reading
Weimar inflation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_the_Weimar_Republic…
Weimar suicide: https://researchgate.net/publication/231885835_Suicide_and_Crisis_in_Weimar_Berlin…
Weimar unemployment:
Sex and Drugs
Amidst the dire economic conditions, Germans flocked to urban hubs in pursuit of job opportunities, and one of the most popular job sectors happened to be one of humanity’s oldest industries: the sex industry.
Prostitution in Berlin wasn’t explicitly legal but existed in a kind of legal grey area where certain aspects of the sex trade were regulated while others remained unregulated. Regardless, enforcement of any laws restricting prostitution was lax to non-existent.
On any given night up to 100,000 prostitutes would line the streets of Berlin. Every type of prostitute was available: midgets, pregnant prostitutes who lined up on the street according to how pregnant they were, prostitutes that purposely tried to be ugly, prostitutes with acid-scarred faces, prostitutes with missing limbs, mother and daughter prostitute pairs, dominatrixes, even hunchback prostitutes. Interracial, intergenerational, forced or abusive sex acts were all available for the right price. There was also a large male prostitution industry and homosexual men from across Europe came to Germany to pay for homosexual sex. Also, unlike most cities, Berlin boasted having not a single red-light district—but multiple.
Child prostitutes were bought and sold in Weimar Berlin in a booming industry. Advertisements for child prostitutes were even placed in German magazines and newspapers. A person could order a child or other type of prostitute over the phone and have them a few short minutes later. British historian Sir Arthur Bryant describes throngs of child prostitutes outside the doors of the great Berlin hotels and restaurants. Braynt adds, “most of them—the night clubs and vice resorts—were owned and managed by Jews. And it was the Jews among the promoters of this trade who were remembered in after years.”
There were homosexual, lesbian, and even transsexual clubs where, occasionally, public masturbation and orgies took place. These homosexual bars weren’t isolated or rare one-off outliers either, there were over 50 lesbian bars in Berlin alone and around 100 homosexual bars total. Drag shows and cross dressing were commonplace in these bars. In some of the lesbian clubs, lesbian women were even arrested for being too sexually perverse on stage from time to time.
Sexual acts involving torture or acts bringing a victim close to death, or even—in some instances—to death were performed in Weimar Germany (called Lustmord). As often happens when violent sexual perversions arise, so too do serial killers playing out their fetishes in reality. I refuse to name serial killers in my writings because I think it glorifies them, but you can look them up yourself. German Newspapers devoted entire sections to the violent sexual crimes of these serial killers and fictional accounts of murders sold very well on German bookstands. Serial Killers had a romanticised lore around them, similar to what we see in western society today.
Alongside prostitution and homosexual clubs, porn also enjoyed a golden age during the Weimar Republic. Like prostitution, porn existed in a kind of legal gray area where any regulation around it was lax to non-existent. Images could be purchased under-the-counter at most street media kiosks. According to one report there were as many as 30 homosexual publications on any given Berlin media kiosk. Above all, pornography featuring models who bore a resemblance to the biggest movie stars of the day, such as Marlene Dietrich or Greta Garbo, were in the highest demand.
Fashion began to blur the lines between masculine and feminine. The female image began to experiment with a more strong-willed independent tone and some women began to dress in masculine clothing. Similarly, male fashion began to experiment with feminization and cross-dressing amongst men began to rise. Berlin’s women began to question the need for a man in their lives at all and many Berlin women had no desire to start or raise a family.
Drug use in the Weimar Republic also ran rampant and Berlin gained a reputation as a drug dealing hub around Germany and Europe. Cocaine was the most popular drug in the Weimar Republic and only required a simple prescription from a doctor. That said, opium (a predecessor to heroin), morphine and amphetamines were all readily available and extensively used as well. The drug usage was so pervasive there was even experimentation with using drugs for “scientific” sexual purposes. One of the chief “scientists” behind this experimentation with sex was a man named Magnus Hirshfeld.
Magnus Hirschfeld was a homosexual Jew and one of the thought leaders behind the sexual debauchery overtaking Berlin. Hirschfeld had founded political organisations that fought for the rights of homosexuals in Germany well before the Weimar era and as far back as 1896. He led the campaign to overturn a statute of German Law called Paragraph 175 which forbade homosexuality in Germany. Hirschfeld would later go on to write a 1914 book called The Homosexuality of Men and Women in which he attempted to prove homosexuality occurred in every society around the world.
Hirschfeld’s crowning achievement of debauchery, however, occurred in July of 1919 when he opened The Institute of Sexual Research (Institut für Sexualwissenschaft) in Berlin. The institute’s stated purpose was to establish the sexual sciences…and establish the sexual sciences the institute did. It was at the Institute for Sexual Research where the initial rubric for the innumerable genders we see in leftism today originated. The institute even performed sex reassignment surgery. At the institute, Hirschfeld developed a system which categorised 64 possible types of sexual intermediary (aka genders) and it was Hirschfeld who coined the term transvestite*te in 1910 and the term transsexual in 1923.
The Institute of Sexual Research also housed a massive library for any and all homosexual, transsexual, and erotic literature. The institute had places for homosexuals to stay overnight as well as some of the first counselling services specifically tailored to homosexuals. Homosexual-specific medical services were provided in the institute as well. The institute also housed the Museum of Sex, an educational resource for the public, which was reported to have been visited by school classes.
I think the writer Luigi Barzini most succinctly summarised the rampant debauchery of Berlin when he said:
“I saw pimps offering anything to anybody: little boys, little girls, robust young men, libidinous women, animals. The story went the rounds that a male goose whose neck you cut at just the right ecstatic moment would give you the most delicious frisson of all—as it allowed you to enjoy sod*my, bestiality, homosexuality, necrophilia, and sadism at one stroke.”
A debaucherous infestation had overtaken Berlin and nowhere was that more evident than in the arts.
Further Reading
In-depth look at Berlin’s sexual perversity:
Sexual perversity with cited sources: http://fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/health/morality_ethics_values/news.php?q=1380145408…
Homosexual and lesbian clubs article and examples:
https://advocate.com/books/2016/7/19/peek-inside-berlins-queer-club-scene-hitler-destroyed-it…
More homosexual and lesbian clubs articles and examples:
https://the-game.imago-images.com/pride-month/pride-1920s-berlin/…
Magnus Hirschfeld:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_Hirschfeld…
The Institute for Sexual Science: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_f%C3%BCr_Sexualwissenschaft#:~:text=The%20name%20is%20variously%20translated,research%20center%20in%20the%20world…
The first homosexual movement:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_homosexual_movement…
More Weimar debauchery:
Art, Music, and Film
Art, music, and film in Berlin were overtaken by the sexual revolution and a move toward a Jewish-influenced anti-authoritarianism.
The Berlin film industry started releasing risqué films and homosexual films. The world’s first known homosexual film—Anders als die Andern (1919)—came out in Berlin during the Weimar era and is the story of a man falling in love with one of his male violin students. This film was written by and featured none other than Magnus Hirschfeld himself. Another film called Mädchen in Uniform (1931) is about a schoolgirl who falls in love with her female teacher. The two commence a forbidden love and eventually even share an on-screen lesbian kiss on the mouth. The film ends when this lesbian love is exposed and the protagonist attempts suicide.
German expressionist cinema also came to prominence in the Weimar Republic. This form of cinema emphasised depicting the artist’s inner emotions (no matter how crude those emotions may be) rather than attempting to replicate reality. Two of the three key figures for the German expressionist movement were the Jews Fritz Lang and Robert Wiene. The expressionist film Metropolis was one of the biggest films of the Weimar era. Metropolis’ content is emblematic of the anti-authoritarian and communist messages of German expressionist cinema. The film takes place in a futuristic city where a beautiful and cultured utopia exists above a bleak underworld populated by mistreated workers. When a privileged young man discovers the grim scene under the city, he becomes intent on helping the workers. He befriends a rebellious teacher which puts him at odds with his authoritative father. The film was both directed and produced by Jews (respectively, Fritz Lang and Erich Pommer).
The credits of the films of the Berlin movie industry were also littered with Jews. In fact, in 1931, over 60 percent of German films were produced by Jews and 82 percent of film scripts were written by Jews.
In the art scene, a thoroughly anti-authoritarian and communist movement called Dada arose. The Dadaist movement was composed of artists who rejected the logic, reason, and aestheticism of modern capitalist society, instead expressing nonsense, irrationality, and anti-bourgeois protest in their works. Dadaist works opposed any type of authority and made fun of far-right figures, including Hitler himself. According to Wikipedia, some sources claim the Dadaist movement was founded by a group of Jewish modernist artists.
In music, one of the most popular singers of the day was a woman who was largely regarded as “the first official lesbian of Berlin” named Claire Waldoff. Waldoff dressed masculine and made no secret of her sexuality while actively trying to convert other culturally important women to become lesbian. One culturally important woman Waldoff succeeded in converting to bisexuality was one of the biggest movie stars in the world, Marlene Dietrich. Marlene was famous for pushing social norms and sometimes wore a tuxedo, helping to erode the image of traditionally masculine and traditionally feminine roles. Marlene credits Clarie Waldoff as “introducing her to lesbian love”. Marlene Deitrich was openly bisexual and an icon for homosexual women around the world when no other homosexual icons existed. One newspaper dubbed Dietrich “perhaps the busiest and most passionate bisexual in theatrical Berlin.”
Anita Berber was one of the most popular nude dancers of the Weimar Republic and danced to songs with titles like, suicide, morphiem, and mad house. One of her husbands was also openly homosexual. In one famous story about Anita, she was being ignored by one of the tables she was dancing for, so she went over to the table, stood on top of it, and started peeing on the table while drinking their champagne. What a gal…
Further reading
Dada:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dada
Dada examples:
https://fineartshippers.com/famous-dada-art-pieces-you-should-know/…
German expressionist cinema:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_expressionist_cinema…
German expressionist cinema examples:
https://bfi.org.uk/lists/10-great-german-expressionist-films…
Architecture
One aesthetic element I think tends to be overlooked in most writings on social decay is architecture. It should come as no surprise that the principal architecture movement of the Weimar Republic—called expressionist architecture—also took a turn from an aesthetic focused on beauty and perfection toward an aesthetic that focused on “distortion of form to create an emotional effect”. This is art/architecture that’s generally perceived as hideous or repulsive. I’d also argue there’s a larger psychological component to this expressionist architecture/art. This hideous art and architecture contribute to social decay by glorifying the more disgusting elements of society and humanity. It subconsciously undermines the idea that society should strive for perfection and instead is a call to accept society’s more heinous elements. This repulsive architecture is, in my view, anti-authoritarian and destructive to social norms.
Two of the key architects of the expressionist movement were the Jews Bruno Taut and Erich Mendelsohn.
I’ve included some examples of German expressionist architecture below as well as examples of an aesthetically-similar type of architecture called Bauhaus that was created in Germany during the Weimar period.
Further Reading
Expressionist architecture:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expressionist_architecture…
Expressionist architecture examples:
Bauhaus examples:
https://dezeen.com/2018/11/08/bauhaus-furniture-designs-chair-tables-chess-set-baby-cradle/…
Jews
One of the key factors in Hitler’s rise to power was his opposition of the Jewish influence inside Berlin. As such, this article would be incomplete without looking at the Jewish influence that existed inside Berlin or—possibly more importantly—the German public’s perception of the Jewish influence inside Berlin.
Here are some of the figures I think best illustrate the Jewish overrepresentation in the Weimar Republic. All these figures should be viewed in consideration of this fact:
Jews made up less than 1% (.09%) of the German population in the years of the Weimar Republic.
In my opinion, these figures are staggering primarily because of the Jews’ immense overrepresentation in major positions of power within German society.
Politics
· The 1919 new German constitution author was the Jew Hugo Preuss.
· One quarter of the members of the 8-person Council of the People’s Deputies that established the Weimar Republic were Jews (Otto Landesberg and Hugo Haase).
· The main competing faction against the official Weimar government was headed by the Jew Kurt Eisner.
· The SPD (Social Democratic Party of Germany) was the political party that ran the Weimar Republic. The SPD’s main political theorist was a Jew: Eduard Bernstein
· Two of the political thinkers most respected by the SPD were Jews: Ferdinand Lassalle, Leopold Sonnemann.
· SPD’s “foremost theoretician of this century” was a Jew: Rudolf Hilferding.
· SPD Key Figure, industrialist, and political thinker Walther Rathenau was a Jew.
· Vice President of the Berlin Police Bernhard Weiss was a Jew.
· In the first Weimar administration Vice Chancellor Eugen Schiffer was Jewish as was Weimar Interior Minister Erich Koch-Weser.
· 15% of Reichstag (German Parliament) members were Jewish.
· 22% of the Social Democratic Party were Jews.
· A large number of the members of the political elite of the Weimar Republic were Jews: Rosa Luxemburg, Paul Levi, Ernst Toller, Erich Muhsam, Gustav Landauer, Eugen Levine, and Karl Radek.
The Press
· The two major press companies involved in producing newspapers and magazines were Jewish owned. Mosse and Ullstein was the biggest liberal publisher of newspapers and magazines while Scherl was the biggest conservative publisher of magazines and newspapers. Both publications were owned by the Jew Leopold Ullstein during the Weimar era.
·Two of the Chief Editors of some of the largest Weimar newspapers were Jews: Theodor Wolff and Georg Bernhard.
One of the biggest newspaper publishers was a Jew: Rudolf Mosse.
The Arts
· The Jew Erich Pommer (20 July 1889 – 8 May 1966) was a German-born film producer and executive. According to Wikipedia, “Pommer was perhaps the most powerful person in the German and European film industries in the 1920s and early 1930s.”
· In 1931, over 60 percent of German films were produced by Jews and 82 percent of the film scripts were written by Jewish writers.
· As mentioned earlier, two of the three key figures for the largest film movement of the Weimar era—the German expressionist movement—were the Jews Fritz Lang and Robert Wiene.
·The key Architects of the expressionist architecture movement were the Jews Bruno Taut and Erich Mendelsohn.
·Some of the main producers, directors, & actors in Weimar Germany were Jews, to name a few: Paul Davidson, Joseph Mandel, Jules Greenbaum, Max Reinhardt, Josef Von Sternberg, Fritz Kohn, Otto Wallburg, Peter Lowenstein.
·According to Wikipedia, some claim the Dadaist movement was founded by a group of Jewish modernist artists.
Sex
· Magnus Hirschfeld was Jewish. He was dubbed “the Einstein of Sex”. He was president of World League of Sexual Reform and of course, founder of the Institute for Sexual Research.
· Ivan Bloch was Jewish and is often called the “first Sexologist”.
· As quoted by Sir Arthur Bryant earlier, “most of the—the night clubs and vice resorts—were owned and managed by Jews. And it was the Jews among the promoters of this trade who were remembered after years.”
Other notable Jewish overrepresentation:
(**Please Note** These next five bullet points are not official numbers and are from a propaganda piece that was distributed in Weimar Germany. I’m including them because although I can’t be completely sure of their accuracy, I think they most likely do generally represent the amalgamations of Jewish power in Weimar society. And, at the very least, these numbers represent the German public’s perception of Jewish amalgamations of power in Weimar society):
-56% of notaries were Jews.
-52% of doctors were Jews.
-45% of Hospital Directors were Jews.
-48% of lawyers were Jews.
-35% of dentists were Jews.
The Weimar Republic was often referred to as the Juden Republic (Jew’s Republic) by Germans. I think it’s easy to see why…
One last note on the Jews of the Weimar Republic. I included a link with more detail below, but many Weimar Jews actively tried to conceal their Jewish identity and even went so far as bragging to other Jews when gentiles were unable to identify them. This is one of the reasons that, to this day, it’s somewhat difficult to identify who the Jews of the Weimar Republic were. What this means is that, although the identity of every Jew I list above is verified, there are undoubtedly other prominent and non-prominent Jews I was unable to identify. The list provided above should not be viewed as wholly representative of the Jewish influence within Weimar Germany. But even just considering the list above, you can see the Jewish influence was substantial for a race of people comprising less than 1% of the total German population. This Jewish overrepresentation is even more substantial when you consider that many of these Jewish amalgamations of overrepresentation occurred within many of Germany’s most important social institutions.
Further Reading/Sources
Weimar government officials:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauer_cabinet…
Sources for many of the Jewish proportional representation numbers:
https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa1129245…
Newspaper ownership:
Poster:
https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa1129245…
List of Jews in the Weimar:
https://yadvashem.org/odot_pdf/Microsoft%20Word%20-%207794.pdf…
Jews trying to hide their Jewish identity:
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1123&context=books…
Enter the National Socialists
After Hitler’s rise to power in 1933, Goebbels and the Brownshirts began shutting down the homosexual and lesbian dive bars that had risen to prominence during the Weimar Republic. They made one of the most popular homosexual bars in Berlin their headquarters after shutting it down. They pillaged Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institute for Sexual Research and Hirschfeld’s books on transsexual ideology were some of the first books the National Socialists burned. From Wikipedia itself, the books the National Socialists burned were:
· Writings on sexuality and sexual education which serve the egocentric pleasure of the individual and thus, destroy the principles of race and Volk (Magnus Hirschfeld)
· Pornography and explicit literature.
· Pacifist literature.
· Popular entertainment literature that depicts life and life’s goals in a superficial, unrealistic and sickly sweet manner, based on a bourgeois or upper class view of life
· The works of traitors, emigrants and authors from foreign countries who believe they can attack and denigrate the new Germany (H. G. Wells, Romain Rolland)
· The literature of Marxism, Communism and Bolshevism.
· Literature with liberal, democratic tendencies and attitudes, and writings supporting the Weimar Republic (Walther Rathenau, Heinrich Mann, Thomas Mann)
· Books that advocate “art” which is decadent, bloodless, or purely constructivist (George Grosz, Otto Dix, Bauhaus, Felix Mendelssohn).
· The decadent, destructive and Volk-damaging writings of “Asphalt and Civilization” literati: (Oskar Maria Graf, Heinrich Mann, Stefan Zweig, Jakob Wassermann, Franz Blei)
· Literature by Jewish authors, regardless of the field.
· Patriotic kitsch in literature.
· All books degrade German purity.
· All historical writings whose purpose is to denigrate the origin, the spirit and the culture of the German Volk, or to dissolve the racial and structural order of the Volk, or that denies the force and importance of leading historical figures in favour of egalitarianism and the masses, and which seeks to drag them through the mud (Emil Ludwig).
Very quickly after Hitler’s rise to power in 1933, the chief purveyors of the degeneracy that had overtaken Berlin would leave the city and National Socialist Germany would rise from its ashes.
The rest—as they say—is history.
Further Reading
Book burnings:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_book_burnings
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