German Empire

thinker but um my point is this kind of stuff came back into vogue like decades later but you know spangler he really was like an inner war theorist okay and that's one of the reasons why you know hitler wanted an audience with him you know kind of anybody's anybody in germany um you know people you know like like people on the far left you know like reactionary monarchist types you know hitler himself you know spangler was a man about town because he was up on something people viewed as profound But beyond that, I mean, aside from, you know, kind of the merit on its own terms of his sort of conceptual vision or his kind of theoretical model, you know, he was very much observing these things, you know, kind of like in their epoch, you know, and he was very much, you know, if you want to talk about punctuated decline and crisis and, you know, what and kind of like, you know, a culture's self-conscious efforts to survive laid bare, not just amidst modernity, but amidst, you know, like an existential crisis relating to, you know, a power political event of truly kind of like world-seeking proportions.

I mean, that was the Great War, and that was the situation of the German Empire, and to a lesser degree, you know, the Austro-Hungarian, their Austro-Hungarian allies.

But, you know, that There was not a lot of real scholarship about that that could be viewed as the heir apparent to people like Fichte, in my opinion.

Beyond that, beyond Spengler's cultural resonance in his epoch, he was trying to answer the question, what was happening in Germany? There was some kind of collision going on between the way people understood themselves racially and historically And, you know, their ability to live in the world.

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The Eclipse Observations In the history of science, the year 1919 is likely to be known, not as the year of the overthrow of the German Empire, but as the year of the overflow of Newton's law of gravitation.

The British astronomers who went to Africa to observe the eclipse of the sun, May 29, 1919, came back with the proof that a ray of light passing close by the Sun is bent out of its straight course.

The photographs taken during the six minutes when the Sun was shadowed show the surrounding stars in different positions from where they are seen when the Sun's disk is not in their midst.

Gertrude met him at dinner, danced with him, played whist with him, and dismissed him as noisy and rather funny.

Concerning Prince Bülow, who was to succeed Bismarck as Chancellor of the German Empire and to be the progenitor of the Great War, she was quite vague, referring to her first meeting with him among a list of guests as, And Mr. Bülow, who I think is an Austrian diplomat, all nice people.

Later, she conceded that Bülow was the German Minister, but said a great deal more about his beautiful Italian wife.

Mr. Harding, a secretary at the British legation in Constantinople, she liked.

Keep in mind that universally hated, he's being absolutely sarcastic there.

Remember, it was the Russian Empire that put the emperor of Austria-Hungary back on his throne that defended the German Empire prior to the war, of course.

That was one of the only countries in Europe that didn't hate the idea of German unification.

So he's being very sarcastic there.

His name, Karl Wolf, the SS general who betrayed Hitler.

The man known to history as Karl Wolff was born on the 13th of May 1900 in the city of Darmstadt in the Hessen region of the German Empire.

His full baptismal name was Karl Friedrich Otto Wolff.

Karl was named after his father.

And, quite incredibly, given his youth, he was rapidly promoted to become a lieutenant.

Nevertheless, the first foray into military life would be short-lived.

In November 1918, As the German Empire collapsed at home and Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated his throne, an armistice was agreed between Germany and the main Entente powers.

The First World War was at an end, and young men like Karl Wolf began making their way home to a country that was collapsing into chaos.

Keep in mind that universally hated, he's being absolutely sarcastic there.

Remember, it was the Russian Empire that put the emperor of Austria-Hungary back on his throne that defended the German Empire prior to the war, of course.

That was one of the only countries in Europe that didn't hate the idea of German unification.

So he's being very sarcastic there.