German Unification: Blood and Iron [1.13]

Episode 13 of the History Off the Page podcast, hosted by Dr. Jason Hansen, titled "German Unification: Blood and Iron [1.13]" was published on April 22, 2022 and runs 80 minutes.

April 22, 2022 ·80m · History Off the Page

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The story of how Germany finally created a national state is well known. But to paraphrase the Italian statesman Massimo d'Azeglio, having made Germany, how did one make Germans? This episode covers the long march of unification from liberal dream to everyday reality, showing the challenges German patriots had to overcome along the way. Here the story was not just a triumph over external enemies in Denmark, Austria and France, but the more difficult obstacle of overcoming in...

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The story of how Germany finally created a national state is well known. But to paraphrase the Italian statesman Massimo d'Azeglio, having made Germany, how did one make Germans? This episode covers the long march of unification from liberal dream to everyday reality, showing the challenges German patriots had to overcome along the way. Here the story was not just a triumph over external enemies in Denmark, Austria and France, but the more difficult obstacle of overcoming internal regional, confessional and class divisions even after the national state was formed. In the episode we'll therefore discuss the genius of Otto von Bismarck, but also the various institutions, monuments and cultural phenomena that helped create the modern German nation.

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