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Season 2021 • Episode 5: The German Wars of Unification - Bismarck's Rise I GLORY & DEFEAT • Watch with subtitles

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The German Wars of Unification - Bismarck's Rise I GLORY & DEFEAT

Episode 5: The German Wars of Unification - Bismarck's Rise I GLORY & DEFEAT

July 19, 2021 • 13 min

After the failed revolution of 1848, the German states within the German confederation were still moving towards unification. This movement would come from the citizens this time though but from the top. Prussia's chancellor Otto von Bismarck was using clever and aggressive diplomacy to outmaneuver his biggest German rival: Austria.

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