Prussia: The Perversion of an Idea46 years ago, the Allied Control Council produced the final obsequies of a state which from its earliest days had been a bearer of militarism and reaction in Germany. With this laconic text, Prussia, with its near millennium of history as one of the frontier states of Christian Europe, was cast away. To many contemporaries, the gesture had a futile ring to it. |
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Dead Bodies I | 1 |
An Empire Built on Sand | 12 |
The Last King of Prussia | 64 |
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