Sat Mar 26, 2022 10:27 am
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Flyin'Dutch' wrote:Germany only became one country ('ish - the Bavarians would dispute it!) in 1870. ...
.. and was significantly fissiparous even then. Albert Einstein was born in Ulm in the Kingdom of Württemberg in 1879; part of the 'German Empire', but that was still a fairly loose collection of individual German-speaking statelets. It was to some extent the Great War which first forged both a sentiment of 'Germanness' and coherent governance of 'Germany'. Ironically, the same War had much the same uniting effect on Canada, Australia and (in 1917) the USA.
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