Versailles #62: A Wild Soviet Bavaria Appears
Added 2019-05-03 05:25:21 +0000 UTC[PATRONS]
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...
Comments
This period of history, this Munich chaos, is fast becoming my most favourite part of history. It is intensely fascinating. I had never really linked its effects on the peace treaty. Thanks again Zack, for this great episode, this fantastic series and your continued charming presentation and undoubted huge effort you must put into these projects.
Laurence Waring
2019-05-15 22:31:25 +0000 UTC
