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HENRY A. KISSINGER: Otto von Bismarck, Master Statesman
NY Times ^
| March 31, 2011
| HENRY A. KISSINGER
Posted on 04/04/2011 9:52:45 PM PDT by neverdem
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One particular aspect of Bismark's policies was the de-Catholicizing of the new German State. Austria-Hungary was kept out because it was a multinational Empire, was Catholic, and because its monarchy was far older and had more prestige than that of Prussia. In the early German state, Bismarck allied his monarchists with the socialists to suppress the Catholic people's party (the Kulturkampf). The result was a thoroughly Prussianised Empire, with dire results for Germany.
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