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10 Jun 2026 Conversations with Tyler Katja Hoyer on Weimar, the GDR, and the German Character
“Königsberg and that entire region along the Baltic coast, that was where some of the staunchest support for Nazism was. They had grievances because of the settlement after the First World War, where Poland is founded as an independent state after the First World War.”
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…What about the towns on the sea? Königsberg, Rostock, Wismar, smaller places, but were they more cosmopolitan or not really? No, certainly not the East Prussian ones. Königsberg and that entire region along the Baltic coast, that was where some of the staunchest support for Nazism was. They had grievances because of the settlement after the First World War, where Poland is founded as an independent state after the First World War. It’s given access to the sea. You end up with a part of Germany, East Prussia, being split off from the rest of Germany. That creates a lot of grievance and very staunch support for Hitler there, when Hitler basically promises to undo all of that and reunite all of these parts of Germany into one block state again. They’re not, as such, averse to Nazism at all. They basically think that Hitler’s restoring the old Germany as was before the First World War. If you had written the Treaty of Versailles, what would you have done differently?…
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