@MarkHoltom @dsilverman Good thoughts about WW2, few people think of what France would experience thanks to their terrible effort at re-arming in the 1930’s. It took the US & Britain & the Free French to come back & save them. But yes, the 1920’s were a period of freedom in fashion & behavior after the awful years of WW1 🙁
@PenguinToot @MarkHoltom @dsilverman Similar to the 1990s and early 2000s, after the fall of the Iron Curtain and a brief period of borderless travel across much of the world. Everything changed after 9/11 and the war on terrorism, which reintroduced border controls and surveillance measures worldwide.
@derbruesseler @MarkHoltom @dsilverman Lived 5 years in Switzerland in 1980’s, rented house was in small town near French border, could drive into France whenever we chose without border controls. Friends told us before WW1 there were no border controls & no money exchanges, Swiss Francs & French Francs & Deutschmarks completely interchangeable, trams ran freely between countries. I’m sure 1920’s similar, too bad the European community couldn’t prevent WW2.