Thank you Wittmann.
The Iron Chancellor born today in 1815
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If he was born in 1900-1915 just think of what he could do.
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@Imperious:
If he was born in 1900-1915 just think of what he could do.
Grow a better mustache?
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Seriously though he probably would of been a very tall Nazi.
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I thought this post appropriate as we are mostly talking WW1 and the CPs inability to win at the moment. He lived in a great time for Germany.
He was born two months before Waterloo and would have grown up in the knowledge how his small nation was instrumental in bringing down a victorious France and fantastic charismatic leader in Napoleon.
I was unaware that he made a treaty with Russia and that it was Wilhelm II who broke it and that he had always tried not to anger Britain by building too strong a navy or even trying to build an overseas empire.
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@wittmann:
I was unaware that he made a treaty with Russia and that it was Wilhelm II who broke it and that he had always tried not to anger Britain by building too strong a navy or even trying to build an overseas empire.
Yes, Germany’s foreign policy under Bismarck was guided by the principles of Realpolitik, whereas under Wilhelm II it shifted to a Weltpolitik approach aimed at making Germany a world power with its own colonial empire (its own “place in the sun”). Willy was also jealous of Granny Victoria’s magnificent fleet, a.k.a. the Royal Navy, so he had no reservations about antagonizing Britain by building up his own navy.
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I have always admired this painting.
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Thanks AB that is a cool painting
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Nice Worsham: any idea where it is and what is the event depicted?
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The painting is of the Bismarck giving birth to the nation of Germany in the Hall of Mirrors in Versailles Palace after France had been defeated.
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Thank you.
I have probably seen it then, but would have been more than twenty years ago if I did, hence I have forgotten about it.
Al loves Paris; am not sure if she wants to see Versailles though.
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