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GermanY 1918-1933: A People in crisis. The German Trenches. Kaiser Wilhelm II. The “Victory Deception”. British Naval Blockade of Germany. The German navy mutiny rather than be forced to confront the British and be slaughtered. This fosters a sense of seething anger among the German people.
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The German navy mutiny rather than be forced to confront the British and be slaughtered. This fosters a sense of seething anger among the German people.
German Surrender:11AM on 11/11/18 Cessation of Fighting Withdrawal of German Troops from Foreign Territories Exchange of Prisoners Demolition of German Warships & Submarines REPARATIONS
Hyperinflation (1921-1924)
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Emil Nolde’sMasks (1911) (watercolor)
Franz Marc’s Fate of the Animals (1913) . . . Marc died in battle the very next year
G. W. Pabst’s Pandora’s Box (1929)
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F. W. Murnau’sNosferatu (1922)
How do the geometrics in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis reflect the nature of the city?