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Otto von Bismarck - III: Iron and Blood - Extra History (Patreon)

Published:
2017-10-27 17:00:05
Edited:
2018-05-15 03:09:13
Imported:
2022-01

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With the government on the brink of collapse, a lesser man would give up, but Bismarck? Bismarck always has a plan.

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Otto von Bismarck - III: Iron and Blood - Extra History

Bismarck was just starting to get the hang of diplomacy when the throne of Prussia passed to a new Frederick Wilhelm who promptly sent him away to Russia. But then Bismarck got tapped to serve as the Head of Government and began pushing for his great project: the unification of Germany. Support us on Patreon! http://bit.ly/EHPatreon (--More below) Grab your Extra Credits gear at the store! http://bit.ly/ExtraStore Subscribe for new episodes every Saturday! http://bit.ly/SubToEC Play games with us on Extra Play! http://bit.ly/WatchEXP Talk to us on Twitter (@ExtraCreditz): http://bit.ly/ECTweet Follow us on Facebook: http://bit.ly/ECFBPage Get our list of recommended games on Steam: http://bit.ly/ECCurator ____________ ♪ Get the intro music here! http://bit.ly/1EQA5N7 *Music by Demetori: http://bit.ly/1AaJG4H ♪ Get the outro music here! http://bit.ly/23isQfx *Music by Sean and Dean Kiner: http://bit.ly/1WdBhnm

Comments

Anonymous

I'm starting to Think it's almost a Pity that William Shakespeare wasn't around to write a Play about Bismarck.

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>>7979810

If anyone could capture the dual "jerk, but jerk with a mission" story of Bismarck in a play, it's Shakespeare.

Anonymous

For a sec, I thought Voltaire was Walpole!

Anonymous

Don’t trust them France! 20 odd years from now those Germans will make you look like fools!

Anonymous

I frikkin love this series, Bismarck is my favourite statesman ever!

Nico Bruin

18th Century? Surely you mean 19th. Plz change this before it goes on YouTube.

Anonymous

Sorry, for being that guy, but I'm that guy who is also of Hungarian descent: you got the Austrian flag wrong. Throughout the episode you show the Austro-Hungarian flag, and Austria-Hungary only existed from 1867 onwards. Before that, it was the Austrian Empire, whose emperor just happened to be also king of Hungary (and of Bohemia and a bunch of other stuff). Apart from that I love this series!

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>>7998415

Dangit! That's on me. David checked that flag with me and I got the wrong one. My bad. -Soraya

Anonymous

This is a good episode. Two points: 1) The famous quotation "Prussia was an army with a state. in which it was merely quartered, so to speak" is not by Voltaire, or by Comte de Mirabeau, but by George Heinrich von Berenhorst, one of Frederick the Great's own adjutants. Volker Ullrich, the historian mentions it in this link, of his review of Christopher Clark's The Iron Kingdom ( <a href="http://www.signandsight.com/features/1341.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://www.signandsight.com/features/1341.html</a> ) 2) While I have no problems with the basic outline, I feel that there's an odds with the events we see unfold. For instance, "Bismarck always has a plan" goes against the role of luck we see in his career. Like if the King didn't call him from his exile to Russia, what was Bismarck's plan then? And likewise, "Bismarck going from radical to pragmatic" goes against the fact that we see Bismarck constantly violating norms, smoking a cigar in a meeting with German Confederation, emotionally cajoling the King, breaking up doors...abusing loopholes and so on. There's a disconnect between how the events appear and how it's editorialized. That might be a deliberate and ironic effect of the narration but it does feel odd. Jonathan Steinberg often pointed out that Bismarck kept talking about politics as an art of the compromise but he himself never compromised and he always got his way.

Simone Spinozzi

Bismark had a plan. Bismark always has ever had a plan. 🤣

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>>8003860

Thanks for the correction about the quotation! (The link doesn't work for me but I'll trust you on it). As for Bismarck always has a plan, I don't think anyone's life ever fits neatly and entirely into a single joke or story, but at EH that's sometimes what we do in order to get people engaged with the content. And I do think that "Bismarck always has a plan" as a tagline does a good job of conveying the type of person he is: even if there are moments in his life (especially his wastrel early life) when he doesn't have a plan, as a statesman and political figure he's most famous for being this massive schemer who's constantly got his eye on the diplomatic chess board.

Anonymous

Is anybody getting any parallels with a certain Winston Spencer Churchill here? Wilderness years, glorious restitution, opportunism, gargantuan appetites etc.,

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>>8013038

If Plutarch were still around, I could see him doing a Lives on Churchill and Bismarck!

Anonymous

Can you do video about Carl Gustav Emil Mannerheim?