S04E14: Otto von Bismarck, the Iron Chancellor and the Second Reich - a podcast by Brady J. Crytzer

“The Great questions of the day will not be settled by means
of speeches and majority decisions but by blood and iron.” A Prussian noble by
birth, Otto von Bismarck used political cunning a brute force to shake 19th
century Europe to its core. Wholly committed to diplomacy at the point of a
gun, Bismarck unified the disjointed states of the former Holy Roman Empire
into a unified state known as the Second Reich. While he remains the picture of
conservatism in the 21st century and a hero of the German people,
questions remain about Bismarck’s motives; his achievements however are without
equal. On this episode we discuss Otto von Bismarck, “The Iron Chancellor."

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