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The Invention Of...

BBC Radio 4•www.bbc.co.uk
History
Government

Misha Glenny investigates the borders, the histories and the people that make different nations what they are.

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Germany: Germany Unified

In 1871, at the Palace of Mirrors in Versailles, the king of Prussia was crowned emperor of the newly unified German empire - a quite staggering event. This is the story of Germany's journey to define itself, indeed to stamp itself, on the European map. "Everything was decided by military strength, but also by a revolutionary idea that there were parts of the map reserved for particular nations - blood and soil, and that if you pick up a handful of soil, this is German, and if you move fifty yar...

Jun 04, 2018•28 min

Germany - The Rise of Prussia

Misha Glenny on how a sandy backwater called Prussia began to change the shape and size of Germany

May 29, 2018•29 min

Germany: The Rise of Prussia

Germany history is often obscured by the fog of Nazism, making it easy to forget both the high culture, and its often feeble past. There is for example in Koblenz a fountain, marked in 1812 by Napoleon's army heading east, and by the Russians in 1813 heading west. In this series Germany is the turntable, the chess board, the stomping ground of Europe. "It's very difficult to think of Germany at this time as having a future of unity and power," says Professor Norman Davies. "It was in many ways r...

May 29, 2018•29 min

Germany: The Thirty Years War

" Germany as we understand it, unified and strong, only came into existence a mere 140 years ago. Before then ? Well there was Bavaria and Prussia, Saxony, Baden Wurttemberg, Pomerania, Westfalia, Schleswig Holstein .this list is extremely long. And defining where one bit ended and the next began - well, it was utterly bewildering." Misha Glenny presents a three part history of Germany before the world wars, revealing how weak and fragmented it used to be. The series starts with the siege of Mag...

May 29, 2018•30 min
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