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Epic Theatre (Bertold Brecht (He went in to exile from 1933 to 1947 (He…

- - - - He went to the USA from 1941 to 1947.
        
        There he worked a little with Hollywood
        
        He left in 1947 after having to testify before the House of Un-American activities Committee, who investigated alleged communist activities #
    - - This resulted in him developing separately from the German theatre
    - - This was in Reinhardt's old "Deutsches Theatre", in the Soviet sector of Berlin
      - This also led to Brecht returning to Berlin permanently and creating his "Berliner Ensemble", which in combination with his plays started consuming a lot of his time
  - - - He served as a medical orderly in a military hospital in 1918
        
        That same year he also wrote his first play "Baal", about an aimless youth involved in a few affairs which was then to be theatrically produced 5 years later
- - - - Germany had to accept the blame for starting the war #
        
        Germany was not allowed to have an air force or submarines or place any troops in Rhineland. It was also restricted to a navy of 6 ships and an army of 100,00 people # # #
        
        This was to weaken Germany so much that starting a war would have been impossible for them and to make sure that if anyone breached the treaty they would be outnumbered and too weak to do any real harm
      - Germany was not allowed to have a voice in the deciding of this treaty, but rather had to accept what was decided
      - Germany had to pay £6 600 million reparations for all the damage it did ) #
      - Germany lost 10% of its land, 12% of its population and 16% of its coalfields along with half of its iron and steel industry #
        
        Alsace-Lorraine was given to France
        
        Malmedy was given to Belgium
        
        North Schleswig was given to Denmark
        
        Memel was given to Lithuania
        
        West Prussia including the 'Polish Corridor' and Upper Silesia was given to Poland
        
        Danzig became a 'free city'
        
        This made Germany's enemies even stronger
        
        Germany's colonies were split between France and England
        
        Germany was forbidden from joining together with Austria
      - Germany was not allowed to be part of the League of Nations , an organization that was an earlier and failed version of the UN of today
  - - - This meant that they were trying to stay out of foreign affairs, and passed several Neutrality Acts to try to make sure that they could simply focus on healing #
      - This had a large impact on Germany #
    - - The irony of this, and what Germany under Hitler was going to go on to become seems immense to me
  - - - It , Italy and Japan made multiple invasions and occupations of nearby countries, and felt emboldened after there were no real consequences from the League of Nations #
      - Especially the last few years before the war, Nazis blazed the path to the upcoming war, rearming their army, making contracts with the USSR, conquering Austria
    - - After Germany was defeated in World War I, people started to blame Jews and Communists
        
        In 1919, the German Worker's Party, which was a forerunner of the Nazi Party, adopted the right-wing ideology
        
        Adolf Hitler joined and quickly rose to the top of this party with his captivating speeches, often dripping in racism and antisemitism
        
        In 1923, Hitler attempted to overthrow the authorities in Munich, which failed miserably.This led to things looking bad for the Nazi Party, with its leaders jailed.
        
        Hitler gained favor from the rightwing judge after using his courtroom as a propaganda platform, and subsequently only had to serve 5 years in prison
        
        In prison, Hitler wrote "Mein Kampf", which was to become the ideology basis of the Nazi Party, detailing radical ideas of German nationalism, antisemitism and anti-Bolshevism (anti-communism)
        
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- - - - It regained popularity and a new meaning as a response to the 1917 Russian Revolution.
      - In the 1960s and later, what it meant to be political was redefined and so as Political Theatre began to reemerge, it too was redefined.
        
        I am guessing that this meant that people were beginning to form stronger opinions outside of the politics of the party or politicians that they supported. I can imagine that this "redefining" might mean that suddenly politics was not just a bunch of people (depending on where this was, at that time it was probably Caucasian straight, cis men mostly) talking about why they are right and the other person is wrong, and started to be more about individual opinions, even ones that differed from what politicians were saying.