he put by weimar standards those were huge successes.in politics ingratitude is the root not the exception. that first straight women thought of retiring from politics completely and of course acting because much thoughts from at least from coming in from certain side. strays a man was suffering from graves' disease a thyroid dysfunction that damages the heart and can lead to a stroke. and could set written history as a man's on. the mission of your man a good. man and of leaders leaving out. the holding. and charging on. in and thus you need to. limit its increase but. i talk of it in acts against. that even if i know. like sometimes i think to myself. to the station the end. strays a man was given the post of foreign minister in the new government. hank. of the republic was on the road to recovery people began to talk of the golden twenties the quieter political situation the new currency and u.s. loans allowed the economy to grow quickly cultural life food as well the foreign minister's official residence became a center of social lif

in munich the opponents of the weimar republic were mobilizing.the eighth of november the varian states commissioner gustaf own car held a rally in the borgo broke a b. a hole. in his speech he sought to whip up opposition to berlin he spoke of shameful treaties. but one man there was tired of words he wanted action hitler saw his chance to strike he demanded that the hesitant bavarian government should join him the host and all those present were taken off guard. but his words were lost in the hubbub witnesses later reported they regarded the whole thing as a pantomime. the nazionale evidence showed his. yes he was trying to move us x. one dutch we have muslim men on visits. and it's was. but the hot head from the national socialist german workers party was serious it was. business and the stuff i did not like don't get inside and comes. you know such it's going to give me the feeling that joe. such a high stakes. you know you. shortly before midnight the news reached berlin strays him and immediately called a crisis meeting president a but was p

based on a novel by far the story takes place in one thousand nine hundred twenty nine berlin as the weimar republic crumbles and the nazis are lurking in the wings a setting with no shortage of thrills and thursday night was the big premiere in berlin. babylon berlin isn't ready making history it's the most elaborate and expensive series ever produced by german t.v. it tells the story of a police detective environment era been in production costs have topped forty. a million euros babylon berlin had its international premium in the german capital on thursday three experienced writers including tom take worked on the script for five years and then directed the series as well. as governance because i'm going to expose one for the whole project was an unbelievable explosion of creativity art and culture and it was a heck of a lot going on in the one nine hundred twenty s. especially about land from hundreds of thousands of migrants that arrived most of them from eastern europe we can. they make it with the rest of the population and they were welcome here or you simply wanted a new start in l

the weimar government was still dealing with the after effects of world war one poverty and unemployment were widespread in the german capital. but at night. the bars and clubs were full of people celebrating for trying to forget this scene shows the legendary maka f.t. nightclub. in the thick of it is detective gary on the heart played by fall couple . was transferred to berlin from cologne for disciplinary reasons and soon finds himself involved in a complex web of corruption prostitution and arms deals. for this issue. this is. reason was a boiling cauldron of contrast in lifestyles. i was extreme wealth and extreme poverty. people with their amazing parties. and people had no idea where the country was going politically politician was for several parties were trying to get established. time there was lots of uncertainty and soul searching. this as to. what side of the sides of after. a number of scenes were filmed at a regional berlin locations but most of the outdoor scenes were shot on the set at bubbles bank studios near potsdam a huge sound stage with four different streets that

this is the former concentration camp near weimar where in one thousand nine hundred nine ok built a karen a stone monument against forgetfulness. it was a warning at a time when right wing ideas were on the rise again. in the former concentration camp canteen found a way to recall the suffering of the inmates and attempt to express the inexpressible by artistic means. he wrote the names of the people who suffered here on the canteen floor. is that i guns these to go it was a very important place in the tents interplay between life and death it's a kind of place of survival. that unlike the gas chambers in the torture chambers that we also find it. an act of sorrow. and of compassion. in the me dying i was there that i put together a memorial i'm using the same stones from the same quarry. i drag them into the canteen and pile them up wrap them in fabric and wrote the names of the people who had once been held that. i have to. mention. that allow me to do something with the deepest emotional awareness. and convey in the most impressive manner. that it was also surviving and living th

screen showing milestones of german history such as the end of the german empire and the birth of the weimar republic in one nine hundred nineteen. there are stock fire in one nine hundred thirty three. the second world war in the postwar era. the founding of the federal republic in one thousand nine hundred nine and konrad adenauer as election as first west german chancellor. the light and sound show on the banks of the spray lasts nearly thirty minutes and the central park is of course that fateful august thirteenth one thousand nine hundred sixty one when the berlin wall went up dividing germany for nearly three decades. then come the images from the one nine hundred eighty nine when the people of east germany took to the streets to demand their rights and refused to be ignored because i said after a certain historic press conference. the wall was opened on november ninth. it's one of the most joyful days in the history of the german nation and the highlight of the nightly open air movie. it's a great institution great film that talks about the best money to the freedom father people arou

theory finds all the minutes of parliamentary debates from the days of the german empire through the weimarrepublic to the present day. it's not called by any means it's a very inviting but it's completely aesthetic in its presentation and then i began reading exactly what is on the on the books what they are and the history i'm very interested in german history i come from. a german background. berg was particularly interested in the minutes of the east german round table talks held just after the fall of the berlin wall. they were dedicated . to advancing the process of reform in east germany. was searching for more chiefs were discovered works by other artists like the installation archive of german members of parliament by french. it's five thousand middle boxes are labeled with names of past m.p.'s. then there's the four rowing boats cristiana move business suspended from the ceiling of the new young guys a building. seen through the lens of his camera herman burke provides a new perspective on the german parliamentary building and on german politics. while those images and. on the sub

femme weimar's -- from the memoirs the casey verges the todd family secret. the living error was the grandson the only child who died in a relatively young age that this heir was not a person under the law in fact, he was a slave and was emancipated and shipped to do liberia. 1878 the former slave, with the invisible man of the story had a name. alfred was elected vice president of liberia and added 1883 became president. so that made him very tides second relation to become a president. so we can -- teeeighteen spoke with his mentor who was a conservative that we must be democrats or abolitionist and stewart would eventually join the democrats. when that time comes my mind is made up that slavery question cannot be compromised he expressed this his anger at the rising slave power he observed in kentucky and was lifted the anti-slavery you with the lawyer -- whig lawyer was driven out of this day and would be some appointed to the supreme court. he described privately theiv kentucky slave holders the most glittering ostentatious property in the zero world, hu

history shows us in y marr, weimar, germany, or in argentina, a country is going to go insolvent. we have been riding the gravy train because our currency is .he world currency reserve i think our debt service is costing us about 250, $300 billion a year. that keeps climbing. how long can it go on before all of a sudden, the world wakes up and the debt service has cut so much into our ability to spend money on the things we have to do, like defense, social welfare, building roads, hiring food inspectors -- the whole nine yards that the federal government has to do -- there will come a day of reckoning. where will that be? mike, ask your question -- half: what we see is a that is not sustainable over the long period of time. we are at 80% of gdp in terms of our public debt, which is not a level that is in and of itself unsustainable. if we go down this path for in termsn the future, of these entitlement programs and not enough tax revenues to pay for it, we are going to see changes in the rates that people demand for borrowing from the u.s., and that will drive up interest cost hig

screen showing milestones of german history such as the end of the german empire and the birth of the weimar republic in one nine hundred nineteen. there are stock fire in one nine hundred thirty three. the second world war in the postwar era. the founding of the federal republic in one thousand nine hundred nine and konrad adenauer as election as first west german chancellor. the light and sound show on the banks of the spray lasts nearly thirty minutes and the central park is of course that fateful august thirteenth one thousand nine hundred sixty one when the berlin wall went up dividing germany for nearly three decades. then come the images from the one nine hundred eighty nine when the people of east germany took to the streets to demand their rights and refused to be ignored because if after a certain historic press conference. the wall was opened on november ninth. it's one of the most joyful days in the history of the german nation and the highlight of the nightly open air movie. it's a great institution great film that talks about the best money to the freedom of the people around t

it was in the weimar republic that got coin. you also used in nazi term for german people.ll well that was a time which the nazis used? it was a term used by frauke petry, i'm glad she has distanced herself from the party. we will see what her future will hold for her. this seems to be too convenient, every time i say to you this phrase oi’ every time i say to you this phrase or that prose was unhelpful, you me was it just or that prose was unhelpful, you me was itjust that individual. do you think voters are distinguishing between alexander and what you say and what afd says, i dimly are, they are the trimming bits from —— i don't think they are, they are hearing this from afd. —— i don't think they are, they are hearing this from afdi —— i don't think they are, they are hearing this from afd. 5 million people give us our votes. that is a response that people want to see us in parliament, presenting opposition. what do you want to achieve we want to challenge angela merkel. there is a commission from the bundestag saying the opening of borders might have been illegal. they

conflicts certainly you can make the argument that the nazis did capitalize upon the chaos of the weimar republic there's no question about it they look they went out to look for i mean they went out look for the went out and created it they went out and intact a leftist social centers and bars and you know at the end because of the media they were quite. astute in blaming the violence that they that they initiated on the left but the question is if you were a rank and file socialist or communist and you had your local bar in the nazis brownshirts came in and started beating your friends up what would you do so i think that we can disagree on what we do but plenty of people would fight back so to some extent i'm not sure if the left could have entirely avoided these conflicts if the nazis were coming at them we can see that the socialist and communist party leadership did everything they could to try and stop them so the notion that an aggressor. of anti-fascist strategy was to blame for what happened the twenty's it doesn't really recognize the fact that most of that was really trying t

this is the former concentration camp near weimar where in one thousand nine hundred nine ok built a karen a stone monument against forgetfulness. it was a warning at a time when rightwing ideas were on the rise again. in the former concentration camp canteen found a way to recall the suffering of the inmates and attempt to express the inexpressible by artistic means. he wrote the names of the people who suffered here on the canteen floor.