Vom Fels zum Meer
EIn Gedicht - aus "Unser Preußen". Vom Fels zum Meer 1. Hoch ragt empor auf felsenfesten Grund Die Zollernburg in altersgrauen Tagen; Sie schaut hinab…
Read more →EIn Gedicht - aus "Unser Preußen". Vom Fels zum Meer 1. Hoch ragt empor auf felsenfesten Grund Die Zollernburg in altersgrauen Tagen; Sie schaut hinab…
Read more →Angeblich hat nicht nur Bismarck an Gottes Gnade geglaubt (Graf von Lüttichau in einem Brief von früh 1866). In Berlin hatte gerade das Blind'sche…
Read more →A couple of small excerpts, both relating to Marwitz's opinion of the effect of the Hardenberg reforms on Prussian society (Seiten 382 & 386). Das…
Read more →Purely by coincidence I just started reading about the Battle of Mollwitz in "Ausgewählte Werke Friedrichs des Großen", Erster Band, on the same day…
Read more →This seemed apposite considering my views of current politics, it was for opinions like this that Marwitz went to Spandau for a short while.
Read more →I've just noticed that my 1794 copy of Campe's Kinder Bibliothek has a library stamp from "Königl. Friedrich Wilhelms Gymnas." which I presume is the…
Read more →A cutting from a magazine, 1950's maybe?, found in "Ausgewählte Werke Friedrichs des Großen", Erster Band.
Read more →Russian or Prussian? Hero or Villain? Marwitz states in his memoirs (Seite 210), apparently relating what he had heard from Major (later Field…
Read more →Time for another Marwitz instalment, this time a couple of small, superstitious observations from 1806. In the lead up to the war with Napoleon (der…
Read more →Hauptmann von Blumenstein, billeted with Marwitz in Dresden in 1805, seems like quite the character. Although stereotypically French (lively,…
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