Blood and Iron - January 18, 1871
Download MP3On January 18, 1871, the German Empire was proclaimed in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles in the heart of French glory, while Paris starved under siege. Otto von Bismarck had united Germany through "blood and iron." But the humiliation he inflicted on France would be repaid in 1919, in the same room, with consequences that shaped the twentieth century.
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