#weimar #germany #republic
Was the Weimar Republic really that bad? Lets look at this counterfactually by imagining what would happen if it survived.
Check out James L. Cambias’ 2004 short story The Eckener Alternative (https://escapepod.org/2012/03/01/ep334-the-eckener-alternative/) and Zach Anderson’s web original The Airship President (https://weeklychrononaut.blogspot.com/p/the-airship-president-and-legacy.html) for some Hugo Eckener alternate histories.
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Dark Times by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Covert Affair - Film Noire by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/