No one will doubt that good has come and is still to come to Germany from the Prussian victories ; but that was not and never has been even the declared object of Bismarck and his policy.

Otto von Bismarck made Prussia dominant in Germany and Germany dominant in Europe. He has inspired a shelf of biographies but remains essentially a riddle. Was he a selfless hero or a scheming tyrant?

Germany’s path to unification was long and complex, shaped by centuries of fragmented states, shifting alliances, and rising nationalism. This video explores how the German-speaking lands moved from ...

When Austria remonstrated, Count BISMARCK serenely smiled, and uttered a few "glittering generalities" about the glory of Prussia being inseparably entwined with that of all the German States.

In the standoff, Prussia had the upper hand. To render Austria and the smaller German states pliable Bismarck “advertised” a Prussian accommodation with the new king of France, Napoleon III.

Two hundred years after Otto von Bismarck was born, Germans are still struggling with the legacy of their first leader: was he a war-mongering villain, or a benevolent hero who united Germany in ...

Bismarck was one of the main props of Die Kreuz-Zeitung, the most reactionary of the Prussian journals in the Revolutionary time; but, then and later, he never tired of denouncing the press.

Bismarck realized that a war with France would inspire the German peoples to rally around Prussia, and would unite Germany into a whole state capable of achieving the status of a global power.

From Bismarck’s Prussia flowed the current of modern state technocracy that eventually swelled into the deluge that would consume much of the 20th century.

Bismarck, Prussia’s “Iron Chancellor” built modern Germany in the late 1800s by trading old-age pensions, disability and health insurance for public concurrence with militarism and colonial ...

Enriching Bismarck's political education was assignment as Prussian minister first to St. Petersburg and then to Paris. This experience broadened his understanding and grasp of the wiles of diplomacy.