Kingdom of Prussia. During World War II, his coffin, along with several others, were moved, for their protection, to a salt mine near Bernterode, Germany. The coffins were discovered by occupying American forces, who re-interred them inSt. Elisabeth’s Church in Marburg, Germany in ...
In a letter to the American organiser of the IWMA,Friedrich Sorge, Marx made some predictions about the future that included theFirst World Warand theRussian Revolution: "What the Prussian jackasses don't see is that the present war leads just as necessarily to war between Germany and Russia ...
Wounded soldiers receiving care after the Battle of Gravelotte, hand-coloured lithograph, c. 1870.(more) Though the war was perhaps not planned by Bismarck, it was certainly not unwelcome to him. It solved at a stroke the problem of southern Germany, since all the southern German states at...