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21.	Law on Nationality and Citizenship (June 1, 1870) This law enacted by the North German Reichstag regulated the process by which inhabitants could gain or lose their citizenship. It was based on the principal of ius sanguinis: one acquired....
22.	Ludwig Bamberger on Bismarck’s Martial Appearance in the Reichstag (1891) The reputation of the Prussian army and its officer corps was not particularly high in the first half of the nineteenth century. The three Wars of Unification in 1864, 1866, and 1870/71 changed that.....
23.	Ludwig Bamberger on Hopes for Parliamentary Government under Kaiser Friedrich III (March 31, 1888) Ludwig Bamberger (1823-1899) was a jurist, banker, publicist, and liberal politician. As a result of his role in the revolutionary events of 1848/49 he spent many years in exile: in Switzerland,....
24.	Otto Glagau, The Stock Market and Founding-Era Swindle in Berlin (1876) Otto Glagau (1834-1892) was an antisemitic journalist and author who held liberalism and the Jews responsible for the onset of the “Great Depression” of 1873-1896. He also blamed them for the decline....
25.	Paul Göhre Describes a Socialist Election Campaign in Chemnitz (1890) Paul Göhre (1864-1924) was a Protestant pastor and social reformer who lived undercover as a factory worker in Chemnitz for three months in 1890 in order to experience working-class life first-hand.....
26.	Preliminary Peace of Nikolsburg (July 26, 1866) The preliminary peace agreement – more than an armistice, less than a treaty – reached in the Bohemian town of Nikolsburg on July 26, 1866, reflected the initial outcome of the Austro-Prussian War....
27.	Reenactment of the Battle of Sedan on September 1, 1870 (Sound Recording, 1890) The Battle of Sedan (September 1-2, 1870) was the decisive battle in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71. It contributed to the fall of Emperor Napoleon III of France (1808-1873) a few days later....
28.	Royal Patent of Patronage for Carl Peters’s Society for German Colonization (February 27, 1885) Carl Peters (1856-1918) founded the Society for German Colonialization [Gesellschaft für deutsche....
29.	Secret Reinsurance Treaty with Russia (June 18, 1887) Bismarck’s system of alliances had bound Austria close to Germany, principally through the Dual....
30.	Socialist Workers’ Party of Germany, Gotha Program (May 1875) The first workers’ association in Germany, the General German Workers’ Association [Allgemeiner Deutscher Arbeiterverein, or ADAV], was founded in 1863 by ....
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