The General at Königgrätz
There's an interesting account of the death of Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr Hiller von Gärtringen in Theodor Fontane's Der deutsche Krieg von 1866: Der…
Read more →There's an interesting account of the death of Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr Hiller von Gärtringen in Theodor Fontane's Der deutsche Krieg von 1866: Der…
Read more →I'm still working on other stuff, so I thought I should keep this place alive with a curiosity from the Neue preußische Zeitung (Kreuzzeitung) from…
Read more →Dissertation aus der vaterländischen Geschichte über die berühmte Statue der vier Brüder, oder von der berühmten Säule der vier Brüder in der…
Read more →What would have happened had the alleged abduction of the Soldatenkönig succeeded? I asked ChatGPT to tell me in the style of Thomas Carlyle and…
Read more →The Jakob Clement post from five years ago still seems to be popular so I thought I'd look into it again and it seems that now there is a fair amount…
Read more →A little ditty from Kladderadatsch - Ein Kriegsgedenkbuch 1870-1871, it pains me to say it but some things never change, the tone of this sounds…
Read more →I'm working on a further post about the Vierbrüdersäule, which will follow, honestly, but whilst going through what has now turned into a large amount…
Read more →Battle of Dybbøl, 1864: A Pivotal Moment in the Second Schleswig War In the spring of 1864, one of the key battles of the Second Schleswig War…
Read more →Die Ehefrau Otto von Bismarcks kam vor 200 Jahren im pommerschen Viartlum zur Welt.„Du bist mein Anker an der guten Seite des Ufers“
Read more →Mehr über die Vierbrüdersäule, aus Die Provinz Ostpreußen : ein Handbuch der Heimatkunde:Mitten im Walde steht der Vierbrüderkrug,ein mit einigen…
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