Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Post WW1 Music

Music from Greek refugees from the treaty of Convention Concerning the Exchange of Greek and Turkish Populations (1923).  This came about because of the fall of the Ottoman empire at the end of WWI. The arrival of the Asia Minor Greeks resulted in the rise of the agricultural production of the state by 400% but also resulted in the refugees becoming poorer and many died.


German tango from the 1920s. With the reparations that Germany was forced to pay he was much poorer and no longer the economic powerhouse it was before the war.  This depression as well as the world wide depression a few years latter led to the rise of the nazi party.

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