RELS 349 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Otto Von Bismarck, Wartburg, John Maynard Keynes
27 Sep 2018
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The background to nazism part 1 the political. Peace of westphalia ended the 30 year war. These states were german speaking lands, but they did not constitute the germany we know today. What unified the german language was the translation by martin luther. In 1806 confederation of the rhine was created by napoleon. This was the beginning of german unification. Around this time, there was a movement by students to form a united german state. Where martin luther translated the bible into german. Major move to form a national assembly. Assembly was very liberal, and they appealed to the king of prussia to become the king of. Germany, he refused though, and dissolved the assembly. Bavaria and hesse were outside of prussia"s influence. During the 2nd world war, british propaganda made prussians look bad. Historically prussians had a reputation for avoiding fighting. Prussians managed to do most things by diplomacy, but when they fought, they fought.
