Proclamation of the German Empire, 1871

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The German Empire was characterised by modernism and traditionalism Its foundation marked the start of a stormy marriage between democracy and the monarchy empire777 In The German Empire, one of Europe's great historians and men of letters chronicles one of history's most fateful transformations--Germany's rise from new