The Second Reich (TRIH ep 31)
1871 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook interview historian Katja Hoyer about Prussia, the emergence of Germany and the formation of the Second Reich. Hoyer outlines Prussia's complex geography and ethno-linguistic patchwork, traces origins from the Baltic Prussians and the Teutonic Knights, and stresses the decisive nineteenth-century processes—Napoleonic disruption, volunteer militias, and the three wars (against Denmark, Austria and France) that enabled unification in 1871.
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Around 1871
- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- American Civil War (1861)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)
- Scramble for Africa (1881)
- Anglo-Zulu War (1879)
- German unification (1871)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- Albert Einstein (1879)
- Joseph Stalin (1878)
- Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (1861)