Old Otto von was the granddaddy of the modern civil service. After cobbling the multi-fractious and various German states, principalities and the Prussian states into a unified Germany in 1871, somebody had to administer all the various departments and over-see the postal system, make sure folks got taxed, make sure the taxes got collected, make sure the trains ran on time ,etc. And then in something that would latter get to be a kind of habit with the Germans, to celebrate their new found power and glory as a unified nation, they invaded France in 1879. They’d do that again in 1914. And then again in 1940. The Krauts sure had a thing about kicking the Frenchies around.
John... John...John..., lookup something, anything really’’’ try to educate yourself. france declared war on Prussia around 1870 or 1871, just to teach those un-nationalistic perenial victim Germans a series lesson. It did not turn out well for the frogs.
It was pay back for all the French invasions of German-speaking principalities. The French weren’t surrender monkeys in the past, but rather very militaristic. The french militarism has gone away but the obnoxiousness continues.
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As an American of Polish descent, I don’t have a dog in this fight. I tend to side with the Germans.
