Comments on: Munich: Germany legends, Map, And Beer. A Festive Tour In Munich http://www.carrieandjonathan.com/munich-germany-legends-map-and-beer-a-festive-tour-in-munich/ What if the purpose of life is to create an amazing adventure? Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:57:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ben Washburn http://www.carrieandjonathan.com/munich-germany-legends-map-and-beer-a-festive-tour-in-munich/comment-page-1/#comment-1270 Ben Washburn Sun, 30 May 2010 13:44:19 +0000 http://carrieandjonathan.com/munich-germany-legends-map-and-beer-a-festive-tour-in-munich/#comment-1270 I'm positive there was a misunderstanding regarding the broadcast of Hitler's trial after the putsch. There was no TV in Germany at that time, however, the trial was filmed and widely covered by the media and did provide Hitler a platform for his message, which was favorably received. It was while he was in prison after the trial that he wrote Mein Kampf. However, Germany WAS ahead of the world with broadcast TV, and did have it by the early 1930s and through the war. Only high party officials had private TV, most folks went to TV parlors the way we go to movie theaters. This was unknown until the end of the Cold War, turns out the Soviets had confiscated all the German TV tapes and took them back to Russia and we (the West) never knew they had broadcast TV so far ahead of us. There are literally hundreds of hours of German broadcast TV still in Russia, only a small % of which has ever been seen here. I’m positive there was a misunderstanding regarding the broadcast of Hitler’s trial after the putsch. There was no TV in Germany at that time, however, the trial was filmed and widely covered by the media and did provide Hitler a platform for his message, which was favorably received. It was while he was in prison after the trial that he wrote Mein Kampf.

However, Germany WAS ahead of the world with broadcast TV, and did have it by the early 1930s and through the war. Only high party officials had private TV, most folks went to TV parlors the way we go to movie theaters. This was unknown until the end of the Cold War, turns out the Soviets had confiscated all the German TV tapes and took them back to Russia and we (the West) never knew they had broadcast TV so far ahead of us. There are literally hundreds of hours of German broadcast TV still in Russia, only a small % of which has ever been seen here.

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