There's something so romantic about winter and I don't know whether that's just because

I'm a bit for homebody and I love a 5.

But I think it's just the holiday period, it's just for me, it's the most romantic period.

And I think anyone who's listened to my records will know that I'm quite a big fan of romance.

Joy in every sip with red carp snout back at Starbucks.

It's January 1930. From the epicenter of New York City, the shock waves of the Wall Street

crash ripple out across the globe. It will take time for the full impact of the financial

earthquake to hit. But when it does, it will cause devastation.

And so across the world will lose their jobs, their savings, their homes, their lives.

People will suffer and starve. Crime and corruption will soar. Unemployment will go through the roof.

Welcome to the Great Depression.

In the past decades, there's been a growing interdependence between nations, between

the great financial hubs where shares are traded on international exchanges. When New York

sneezes, London catches a cold as the saying goes. And as we're burned in, the Wall Street

crash will ultimately render this patient terminal. There's a cruel irony here.

But despite the crippling war reparations imposed by the Treaty of Versailles, the

new post-war Vimer Republic, against all odds, had begun to claw its way back.

It was resembling the old German powerhouse of Europe. It had even been re-admitted

to the international club, joining the League of Nations. But there's a harsh reality

to Germany's revival. The recovery has been underwritten by massive American loans

under the Doors Plan, Ben the Young Plan. The bottom line is that Germany is in

hawk to the US for seven billion dollars, a staggering 112 billion in today's money.

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