Golden Age Syndrome is when you believe the best times of the world are anytime but now. When you think the good times are all gone, or yet to come. There are two theories on why we have memories. Some say memory is only a device used to remember our lives perfectly, every moment, every comment and place we’ve been.

It roughly ended with the Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659 that ended the Franco-Spanish War of 1635 to 1659. Some extend the Golden age up to 1681 with the death of the Pedro Calderón de la Barca, the last great writer of the age.

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The earliest attested reference to the European myth of the Ages of Man 500 BCE–350 BCE appears in the late 6th century BCE works of the Greek poet Hesiod’s Works and Days (109–126). Hesiod, a deteriorationist, identifies the Golden Age, the Silver Age, the Bronze Age, the Heroic Age, and the Iron Age.

‘The ‘Golden Age’ of Weimar was a myth’. and a ‘Golden Age’ wasn’t experienced by everyone. A ‘Golden Age’ can also be seen under the Dawes Plan (1924) and the Young Plan (1929) in which the burden of the ToV was alleviated because of the loans received from America.

The Golden Twenties in Germany is often referred to as a borrowed time, meaning that this time of exploring the arts, humanities, freedom, and financial stability was atypical and would soon end. The United States was the only country to come out of World War I without debt or reparations to pay.

People were starving, the Kaiser had fled and the new Republic got off to a troubled start for two reasons: Many Germans hated the government for signing the armistice in November 1918 – they called them the November criminals. Many Germans felt their country had received a very harsh deal in the Treaty of Versailles .

The voting age was also lowered from 25 to 20. Austrian citizens living in Germany were allowed to vote, with German citizens living in Austria being allowed to vote in the February 1919 Constitutional Assembly elections.

The Weimar Republic was Germany’s government from 1919 to 1933, the period after World War I until the rise of Nazi Germany.

The treaty blamed Germany for the war and punished her militarily, territorially and financially. This impacted enormously on the German economy and led to an economic crisis in 1923.

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