Lüttichau und das Blind'sche Attentat
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 →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 →From "Der Kinderfreund", volume 11, 1779. OK, not strictly Prussian, although Hanau where the book was published was annexed by Prussia after choosing…
Read more →Heute vor 339 Jahren Schweden, echt? Seems funny to think of Sweden as an aggressor nowadays.
Read more →So, another book by the somewhat deranged Dulon has arrived, 'Vom Kampf un Völkerfreiheit', 1849/50. Two volumes in one binding for 33 Euros. Not so…
Read more →Neues altes Buch: Geist der Zeit von Ernst Moritz Arndt, 1806. Band 1, erste Ausgabe, €94. Ich freue mich auf einen Angriff auf den Pferdedieb.
Read more →Frohes neues Jahr! (Mal schauen...) I found the following passage, actually a large footnote, from v.d. Marwitz's Nachlasse (Volume 2, page 284) very…
Read more →A nice purchase this week from Abe Books, all five volumes of Treitschke's Deutsche Geschichte, all by the same publisher but with different dates…
Read more →Heute vor 287 (1730) Jahren wurde Hans Hermann von Katte im Festung Küstrin enthauptet. The court martial judgement makes for interesting reading, the…
Read more →Well I've finally finished the first volume; Lebensbeschreibung, of Marwitz's Nachlasse, after starting reading it shortly after the New Year. I've…
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.
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