Versailles #62: A Wild Soviet Bavaria Appears
When Diplomacy Fails Podcast
Zack Twamley
4.8 • 773 Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2019
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
The German delegation had arrived in Paris, but despite the confident exterior, Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau would have known full well that all was not well back home. Germany was tottering on the edge of the abyss, and nowhere was this danger more acute than in the traditionally safe, conservative heartland of the Empire - Bavaria. What had led this second state of Germany to veer so far to the left, and so far from its old roots? Was there any hope for Bavaria, or was it destined to be another Budapest? Germans were determined that the answer should be nein, but the aftershocks of this trauma were not something that could be so easily contained...
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, history friends. My name is Zach Twomley, and you're about to listen to the latest episode of the Versailles |
| 0:05.1 | Anniversary Project. This is episode 62, so if you haven't listened to any other episodes, make sure you do. Otherwise, |
| 0:11.9 | you'll be absolutely clueless as to what's going on. In fact, even if you listen to the other ones, |
| 0:17.5 | you may also still be clueless as to what's going on, especially because |
| 0:22.0 | today this episode looks at a period of history which is pretty much unknown, but as we'll |
| 0:27.3 | learn, it has seriously important implications for not just the future of Bavaria or Germany, |
| 0:33.2 | but also the world. That itself is a pretty good hook and a pretty reason why you should listen |
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| 1:15.7 | In addition, you can also get an hour of extra content every month and chow down on the Suez Crisis, |
| 1:22.2 | as well as other special projects that we've released in the past, such as 1956, Part 1, which looked at the |
| 1:29.1 | destalinization process and the Hungarian Revolution, and the Ansobe-Easki Biography series. |
| 1:35.2 | If you're looking for content that delves into different eras of history other than just |
| 1:40.1 | 1919, if maybe you've gotten your fill of Versailles and want to break and you want to come back |
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| 1:50.8 | which goes quite well in tandem with the Korean War that we looked at before. So if you've |
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