Trotsky, Stalin, & Hitler walked into a Coffee House : Viennese Coffee House History 

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Extra Information & Sometimes Corrections if Needed !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 0:00 I apologize ahead of time for all the mispronunciations in this video. 1:10 Coffee drinking and selling can be dated in Venice as far back as 1616 but the first commercial coffee house didn't open until 1645 or 1647. 1:10 Ok "Europe" here is a bit misleading, there where coffee houses on the European side of the Ottoman Empire specially in Constantinople. 1:13 The coffee house at Oxford wasn't technically the "first coffee house" in England because it wasn't a corporate institution but a university one. 1:15 There was coffee drinking in Marseilles in 1644 but the first permanent coffee house wasn't established until later. 2:26 35, Rittner, The Thinking Space. (full bibliography with sources is in my script available for free on my Patreon) 3:06 36, Rittner, The Thinking Space. 3:54 Both also frequented Café Frauenhuber. 3:59 I meant Johann Strauss but showed a picture of Richard Strauss, my bad. 5:20 40, Rittner, The Thinking Space. 7:38 Lenin didn't meet Stalin in Krakow for the first time they have meat before. 8:21 The quote says Mr. Bronstein not Trotsky as that's the name Trotsky was known under at the time. 8:35 Although Hitler preferred the working class cafes on Schwegerstrasse 25, called Cafe Kubata. 8:57 Even though Freud was known to go to Cafe Central he preferred the cafes previously mentioned. 9:15 didn't have time to explain the "Young Vienna" movement or the writers involved with it, here is a wiki link if you're interested- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Vienna 9:15 The group of writers part of the "Young Vienna" movement first meat at Café Griensteidl and when it was closed moved to Cafe Central. 9:44 Ok so Bahr is often considered to be Jewish by many sources (hence why I put him in the video) but he technically wasn't. He was actually quite a big anti-Semite in his youth but in his later years he changed and became very heavily involved with the Jewish culture and community in Vienna. He wrote in opposition to antisemitism, married a Jewish actres, and hung out in many Jewish circles in the Viennese Coffee Houses. Due to his campaign against racial antisemitism he is very often mentioned in a Jewish context hence why many people think he's Jewish. 9:54 174, Shapira, Style and Seduction. 10:37 I meant to say decompressed not decomposed, had a bit of a brain fart sorry. Video scripts with all my sources are available for free on my Patreon. www.patreon.com/mlaser

Imagine Hitler & Stalin bumping into one another, and then both apologising to the other

Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Tito, Kafka, Freud and Hitler all walk into a coffee house in Vienna. There are no survivors.

That sounds like the start of a really bad joke.

This is like, the biggest crossover in history, endgame cannot even be compared to this

Its always cool to see how and that the world was pretty connected before the internet.

Imagine Stalin, Trotsky, Tito, And Hitler being on the same cafe bumping to each other and a few years later they know that all of them will be an enemy with one and another

So there's a chance that tito, hitler, stalin, and trotsky all had coffee together? Edit: And freud and franz ferdinand as people told me.

Well, if the Austrian coffee house scene makes a comeback, I’ll start building my bomb shelter for WWIII

I'm just imagining it like *Stalin is invading Berlin* Hitler - "Wait! Time out! Coffee time!" *Hitler and Stalin both walk into the nearest coffee shop and share a few cups* Stalin - "So, how's the wife?" Hitler - "Planning to be with me until the end, yours?" Stalin - "Dead, remember?" Hitler - "Ah yes, yes..." *They sip*

The Four pillars of democracy: The Executive The Legislative The Judicial *The Coffehouse*

Hearing you refer to "Coffeeshops" makes me chuckle as a Dutch person.

Came for learning about Stalin, Trosky and Hitler being in the same coffee house, stayed for the interesting history of Austrian coffee culture.

As a viennese i must unfortunately say that many historic café houses in the 1at District are now just tourist traps. I once got kicked out because I was just enjoying my paper instead of purchasing more. There are of course still great cafes here but they are few gems

These coffeehouses sound like THE places to be, you could've met so many interesting characters in them and people of high classes to low classes met and mingled. These days the only interesting person you'll find in a damn Starbucks is that dude with the guitar and wearing a black leather jacket, you know you've seen that guy we've all seen him.

Here in Melbourne we had many huge "Coffee Palaces" built in the late 1800's. Some of these ornate buildings were 6 floors high and over 100 metres long. They were a reaction against excessive drinking, but unlike the hard line Americans who wanted to ban alcohol, most of the builders of these Coffee Palaces just wanted to provide a comfortable, civilised alternative to hotels. Most of them were demolished between the 1930s and 1970s, the huge Federal Coffee Palace (later Hotel) was an especially tragic loss, but one of the larger coffee palaces survived as the Windsor Hotel which is over the street from the Parliament of Victoria.

Its insanly weird that you only have 90k subs. You make amazing content, and I hope you know that. I am a big fan! Your content includes educational facts, great humor and lesser known fun facts.

this sounds like the internet, but with a couple weeks of ping

It reminds me of the 'bierkellers' in Munich where for instance in Hofbrauhaus am Platzl, Lenin and Hitler also regurarily visited.

now I have to watch this video in Vienna at a coffeehouse

There's actually a Ukrainian play called 'Viennese Coffee' whene the main characters are Hitler, Stalin, Trotsky and Freud, all of them are trying to woo a hot barista gils, who happens to be Ukrainian.

The coffee house culture sounds like the internet. If someone creates a digital ballroom, the world won't be the same.

The only thing i would want to add: viennese coffe houses over time accumulated over 30 different ways of serving coffe. (you can still order a Melange, Kapuziner, Fiaker, Einspänner, Zarenkaffe, Verlängerter...) So what chains like starbucks way later started was common in those coffe houses for a long time already. But they served in porcellain or glas depending on what speciality you ordered instead of a plastic or cardboard cup with a sharpie name on it...

You really just clickbaited me into watching a video about coffee. But I’m not complaining! Never have I so much wanted to go back in time just to go visit a little coffee shop. Seeing such a wide array of characters, some even historical, and having newspapers from every corner of the world sounds so great. Excellent video, you earned a subscriber.

Great video. I am very fascinated how Austria-Hungary connected all these different people, united under one emperor.

Cafe culture might have died out in Vienna, but it's going strong in Croatia :D if you ever visit Zagreb or any other larger city after the pandemic, you can bet you'll see hundreds of packed cafes of all shapes and sizes. Great channel btw, not a lot of people talk about Slavic and central European history. Keep it up!

Coffee Houses were the internet forums of those days. If you travelled around a lot you would always ask for a good Coffee House nearby.

the Coffee culture of Europe is one of the most interesting things I've ever learned about and no better place was this crystalized than in Vienna.

When you pronounced “Bedřich Smetana” correctly I almost spat out my coffee. Pozdrav z Čech :)

I wish my city had such a coffee house tradition. Probably more like a tea house culture..

It reminds me of an interesting fact - during Cold War Soviet satellites created a human traffic heatmap for major military installations in the US. There was a "red" hole in the center of the garden inside of the Pentagon building. Soviets thought that was an entrance to a secret bunker and designated this very coordinate as a target for nuclear anti-bunker aviabombs. In 1990s it's revealed that it was a small cafe, and almost all Pentagon staff frequented it, that's why it was red on the heatmap.

I like to imagine everyone who wasn’t a historical figure in a coffee shop was a time traveler. After all if you ever want to alter history by killing Hitler or Stalin, this is the place.

7:31 for the trotsky, stalin, & hitler story

This was way more interesting than I tought

Thank you for this magnificent video on an unequalled european institution and heritage! Every time I am in Vienna I marvel particularly at the most historic and most distinguished coffee houses like the Cafe Imperial and the Cafe Central, what splendid havens of everything good in life.

Late 19th century - early 20th century Vienna must have been quite an experience

8:28 "And what are you gonna do trotsky ? Lead a civil war and overthrow the Russiand Empire ?"

So Viennese Coffee Houses was some kind of Reddit thread

"Mein fuher, do you know the leader of russia?" Hitler: "yes, I saw him in a coffee shop in Vienna."

Lovely presentation. Brought back memories of several days in Vienna, sampling the coffee houses and visiting stupendous museums.

Came here for the meeting of hitler, trotsky, and stalin. Stayed because of austrian coffe culture. Nice video.

Discord is the modern Coffehouse

This video makes me wanna visit Vienna

As someone who grew up in Vienna I enjoyed the video a lot and there was still a lot I could learn. And to the rest of the world: drop into a coffee house next time you come to Vienna!

That's funny I did not hear a lot about those other coffee houses you've mentioned, some I didn't even know. Vienna and Budapest are the first places I think about when somebody says Coffee House.

Sultan Murad IV of the Ottomans banned drinking of coffee and smoking of tobacco, blaming coffee houses for recent fires but the real reason behind the ban was the political nature of these establishments. Many revolts could be traced back to the conversations had in them. He wasn't the only Ottoman sultan to issue such a ban, and like all the others before and after him, his prohibition was also ineffective in stopping coffee houses.

Vienna's coffee houses: serving Austrian hipsters since 1685. LOL!!!

This video and the time taken to put it together is greatly appreciated!

5:17 as weird as it sound, when explained in that way more than anything the viennese cafe reminds me to the internet than any bar or coffeeshop now.

Beautiful video man. Very informative and I love the topic, not much is talked about this usually.

"...enthusiastically started using the new coffee houses as a meeting place for simple discord"

What a information extravaganza! A joy to watch! I love when history is presented this way. Hope you and yours are safe today. Mahalo 💜✌️😎

This was actually a really interesting video. Thanks for sharing all this info, coffee houses really do sound like magnificent places. It is a shame that the internet and a general culture of dying social relations is killing them. In my country, there are still a few 'local coffee houses' but the discussions in them is nowhere near the level that they used to have in cafés around the world.

Habsburg Empire is such a lost jewel. Imagine that everything that happens in Europe, happens in one city, the cultural capital of Europe. There is a lot of catching up we have to do after WWII and cold war.

Great video. You deserve more subscribers!

This oughta be the greatest “Friends” parody i’ve ever seen.

These songs are such good choices for this video.

Growing up in Vienna i enjoyed spending hours over hours in my favourite Kaffeehaus. Reading, studying , talking , playing, all for the cost of a coffee. I am happy to see that american coffeehouse chains have a hard time in Vienna.

On the subject of smoking: In the 19th century, operators even artificially spread smoke in their coffee houses to show potential guests that there was a lot going on here

Imagine if they meet, and decided to be roommates, due to their lack of funds. Weirdest Friends' fanfiction ever...

I read it has Stalin trostky and Hitler walk into a Vietnamese restaurant

Loved this video! Especially your French Pronounciation of neue Rundschau . Couldn‘t help but chuckle

I live in Vienna and when I went to Dublin I was really surprised about how many Starbuck's there were. The Viennese coffee house culture never died, you'll still find coffee houses everywhere, and many different people still visit them.

I kind of want to bring back the coffee house. Or tea House. Some kind of stimulant herb and alot of intellectuals gathering at one place. And have the herb only be used in certain establishments. Like how in the case of the elysian mystery cult greeks would gather at a certain temple at a certain time of the year to drink a concoction laced with ergot (containing LSA) while simultaneously it would be illegal to take it home with you. Sounds pretty cool.

Anyone else think this would be a cool concept for an anime? Just having all these influential people chilling in a cafe in 18/19/20th century Vienna.

New drinking game: Each team you hear "coffeehouse" you chug a drink.

I adore history and have a soft spot for even obviously bad historians if for no other reason I know better and I can't hate anyone who is actually trying. That being said I have for a very long time considered your channel to be far and away the best in terms of accuracy, historical detail and clear non episodic accounts that rely on factual corroborated data when recounting historical events, persons, nations and governing bodies. It's true there are more popular and more entertaining channels that I do really love however, when I want to be entertained I watch them, when I want to learn I watch you. Thanks again and you don't get paid nearly enough for the work you do and that is a god damn tragedy.

Fun fact: Franz Kolschitzky was a Ukrainian. He was originally from the Lviv region, which is now Ukraine but at the time used to be under Polish rule. In his early days, he used to be a cossack at Zaporozhian Sich and got captured by the Turks. That's where he learned Turkish, which eventually helped him contribute to Vienna's liberation and lay the grounds for Vienna's coffee house culture.

i wonder how many people think , upon seeing this presentation:"if only i could go back in time and poison them"...

The background music is making me sleepy, so I will go and make coffee after watching this video. Lol:) Nice work I came here due to oversimplified

I would so pay for a sitcom where young Hitler, Trotsky, Freud and all the others just go to café Central to develop their ideas and whacky hijinks ensue.

Of course it makes me proud when someone, especially a foreigner, makes a video about the coffee house culture in my hometown. It's also all wonderfully researched, but I ignominiously miss a mention of Cafe Hawelka, which even a Viennese songwriter, Georg Danzer, was worth a song "Jö schau..." and there are only a few Viennese who don't know the text by heart . The Hawelka, which was only taken over by Leopold Hawelka in 1939, was and still is an institution where the cultural scene met. Well-known painters (e.g. Ernst Fuchs, Friedensreich Hundertwasser), writers (e.g. Heimito von Doderer, Günter Grass, Friedrich Thorberg), actors (e.g. Oskar Werner), cabaret artists (e.g. Helmut Qualtinger) frequented the Hawelka. Many a painter, who was still unknown at the time, paid his bill with pictures that old Hawelka then exhibited in his cafe... until the person in question became a celebrity. For your defence, I have to admit... the video would really be too long!

The way you said "Neue Rundschau" killed me man xD Good video though

If only they had stayed at the coffee house.

Bruh, before smartphones, people were so bored, they went to stand in a room and watch people play billiard.

Wonderful video! Wasn't Joseph Roth a known habitue of Viennese coffee houses? Also - when I was in the Titovi Pioniri in Jugoslavija, the coffee houses throughout the Republic ALWAYS had great coffee (of course) with šlag - because Tito was notorious for loving Kafee mit Schlach. When later I lived in Vienna I HAD to frequent them... my favourite admitted that they got their coffee from Bosnia (which explained why it was so good LOL). Thank you for this video!

It's insane that a shit ton of ww2 important characters existed at the same time in the same city. It's actually more insane than the endgame crossover, which isn't even real.

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Hitler,Trotsky and Stalin went to the Same Viennese Coffee House.

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Tito (from yugoslavia), was also there, he was working though, and didn't visit the coffeshop all that much .

Oh nice a Stefan Zweig quote, I quite liked his autobiography even tho its rose coloured glasses all the way up to the max.

Great video..I absolutely had no idea. Thank you

Just tell me about the funny mustache men!

I remember a history prof I had in college who had been a lieutenant-colonel in the Austrian Air Force, and served in NATO intelligence during the 70s. Guy had security ratings out his ying-yang. He got to read embarrassing historical records, among other sensitive records and documents. The origins of the Nationalist Socialist German Workers party, for example: 3 German railroad workers who simply wanted to exploit a loophole in post WW1 law that rationed beer for everyone but political organisation's holding meetings, formed the political party just so they could have more than just two steins of beer after work each day An unemployed Adolf Hitler was assigned by his wartime comrade and friend, Ernst Rohm, a minor Weimar official in counterintelligence, to infiltrate and report on them. The rest is history, as they say. One of the reasons for the exemption from the ration was for the benefit of the government spies infiltrating these groups. Drunken tongues wag freely ...

History's greatest crossover

They were arguing about which team they would choose in the next hoi4 match💀

14 minute video for a single coffee shop. God bless you madman

Dont apologize my friend. Ur videos and ur pronounciation are perfection.

Tito, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Emperor Franz Joseph also lived in Vienna at this time.

Wonderful video! I have known about this for some time, but I love seeing it in a video. If I ever rise to political prominence, know that I never visited a Viennese coffee house (but aspire to) but rather frequented Coffee Club da Galileo aswell as Caffé Vienna in Trento

This sounds like some twisted dad joke. " So Hitler, Stalin, and Trotsky walked into a bar."

Lovely! "I don't know. Nobody has ever dared smoke in my presence."

This makes me want to live in the past and be a regular coffee house attender.

Beer, then coffee. Waiting for some tea.

A crossover that we did not wanted but we need

Honestly, this is something I love about Austrian, and more specifically viennan culture. Cafés are probably my favourite public places.

Trotsky, Stalin and Hitler walked into a coffeehouse, sounds like the begging of a bad joke

Please look forward to my comedy pilot based on this premise, "PITCH BLACK", premiering this fall on CBS

These Austrian coffee culture in 18th century seems like typical warung kopi in Indonesia with random people both man and women while smoking, eating or gambling.