Industrialization, particularly in north & northwest Germany, shifted from: | *Germany* | *1870* | *1910* pre-war | *1923* mid-Weimar | *1933* start of Reich | |-----------|----------|------------------|---------------------|-------------------------| | Rural^1 | 64% | 40% | 36% | 33% | | Urban^1 | 36% | 60% | 64% | 67% | 1: places < 2,000 people = rural; arbitrary but it's a classification the Reich itself made; see source below "source?" http://www.digizeitschriften.de/dms/toc/?PID=PPN514401303 "But I can't read German or push that into a translator!" or did you think that making memes was what counts, and not learning the skills to do primary research? Anyway, let's overlay the United States and work backward roughly the same intervals (and 1870 just for fun): | *US* | *1870* | *1950* | *1990* | *2000* | *2010* | |-----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------| | Rural^2 | 74% | 36% | 22% | 21% | 19% | | Urban^2 | 26% | 64% | 78% | 79% | 81% | 2: places < 2,500 people = rural; set by Census Bureau https://www.census.gov/history/www/programs/geography/urban_and_rural_areas.html "source?" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization_in_the_United_States Notes: 1. The US reached Weimar-level urbanization 27 years after Germany. 2. All of the crucial events leading to the Reich's establishment occurred in rapidly-industrialized cities. 3. However, the Reich held up the southern Germany rural ideal as the root of the national greatness. 4. Mass communication in Germany was newspaper, telephone, radio. 5. Mass communication in US now is TV, telephone, radio, internet. 6. Technology advances (agriculture, transportation, energy production, construction) make larger cities possible now. 7. Based on 4/56, likely means that "peak urbanization" can be higher. 8. Eager to see the numbers from 2020 census. 9. Key events that attract mass attention and cause changes still occur in cities (Charlottesville, rallies, protests). What do you make of all this? (inb4 "jew post" because, clearly...)