There were eleven million workers in Germany at the time and other countries looked on this as, this is ridiculous, no government can actually manage the system like this.

当时的德国有1100万工人,其他国家视此情景为儿戏，没有哪个政府能像这样管理一个体系。

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And, to be sure, there were lots of crowds in Paris were the inevitable crowds who shouted for war, which was sort of odd because Paris was increasingly a leftwing city, because the vast majority of the population of Paris were ordinary people,were workers, more about that another time when I talk about Paris.

很多巴黎民众涌上街头,个个嚷着要上战场,而这对巴黎这座逐渐左倾的城市有些令人惊奇,因为这座城市的多数人,都是平民和工人,关于这点我会在讲到巴黎时再和大家讨论

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