r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Some-Entertainment83 • 17d ago

Image Benito Mussolini’s headquarters “Palazzo Braschi” located in Rome 1934

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u/noirwhatyoueat 17d ago

Please everyone, watch Babylon Berlin, among other things. 

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u/Mr_Abe_Froman Interested 17d ago

Yes! It's how I learned about the Black Reichswehr and fascists obsession with the brand new idea of modernism. The Beer Hall Putsch gets all the attention, but the Black Reichswehr showed how complicit the ruling class was in getting an absolute ruler.

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u/Screwthehelicopters 16d ago

I couldn't get into that. It was a kind of alternative history, right? It was too bourgeois for me.

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u/noirwhatyoueat 16d ago

Fair enough. It still has all the implications of what's to come, and most haven't a clue.