Otto von Bismarck: The Iron Chancellor

....But Bismarck had a plan. Bismarck always had a plan.

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Is that Andy Reid’s uncle

Germany is such a miracle.. wow

What an idiot the way he talks with all these adds...FU!

What a racist murder and anti Semitic bigot

“The world reads from his hymn sheet” beautiful

The lesson from Bismark, if I’m not mistaken, is that in any enterprise you should be careful not to overextend yourself. Leaders are so often tempted by the idea of taking more, but in taking more, by twist of fate or something else it always ends up working against them, sometimes catastrophically backfiring , so you should always try to take only your fair share and perhaps a little more for strategic purposes, but that is all.

Well, Bismarck DID always have a plan.

Sir I think we missed one strategy of Bismarck back in 1863 poles had revolted against Russia and so it was Bismarck who had helped Russia in suppression of that revolt and this was the reason for Russia siding with Prussia in 1864,1866and 1870-71

Gosh. Everytime when Im down, i watch your videos and say to myself: Be glad you arent a bald, bearded assface with glasses.

He was so metal, there was enough spare to make a battleship

The details of the Schleswig Holstein war are actually very interesting. Bismarck was a Master of manipulating his political opponents into making some mistake that justified Bismarcks wars in the eyes of the rest of the European powers

I firsr heard of him as a teenager from a Simpsons episode. Marge's aunt had a potato chip that looked like him. I had no idea who he was so I looked him up 🤣

this man's evil shadow influenced the rest of German history...he inspired others in German history to commit evil crimes...they were all the same..Von Ludendorf, Hitler, the last King...and even Helmut Kohl come in that legacy...gangsterism,,,This has cost Germany terribly in its history,, Werner Fassbinder explains it far better

Epic drinker..

Shut up about "communist dictatorship" now ... enough of petty Cia propaganda.

King Wilhelm was Frederick’s son he was his brother (prince of grapeshot) and Bismarck was not in Paris! He was in San Petersburg Russia when King Wilhelm summoned him back

I enjoy the delicious irony of the background music being sourced from Strauss' waltzes, a committed Austrian, on this video.

Without him, Germany wouldn`t exist. My ever hero.

Prussia a state hatched from a cannon ball. How many wars did they start?

Genius statesman!

American history is indelibly impacted by the Hessian (north 'Germany') legacy. Exploring the linkages between the martial heritage of Prussia, Hesse, et al and the rise of modern Germany is worth an episode.

Without WWI or WWII would the colonies have broken up? Would the European colonial era have come to an end and would all of us in former British colonies still be serving the British crown?

A Europe devoid of Bismarck's Germany would still have dealt with the intrigues of the three big troublemakers, plus Austria's games and any number of smaller squabbles. War is always inevitable.

Make no mistake about it, this is a war planet

"dollar store Napoleon" LMAO

Germany as a thing likely wouldve happened without him, but i wonder how different Europe would've been if Wilhelm II listened to his warnings

Wilhelm kind of reminds me of Tito

What a lot of people don’t understand is that the 2 other liberals sided with ACB in order to limit the final ruling.

It’s absolutely brutal, it sucks 100%, but you will see more of this. The same 2 siding with ACB or Kavanaugh in order to limit the devastation from an Alito/Thomas decision.


Welcome back to the Lochner era baby!!!! We’re all doomed.

"Dollar Store Napoleon"
Someone call the Fire Brigade, the Palace of Versailles is on fire. Again. 🤣

What if Otto von Bismarck stood his ground ?

I sometimes wonder if he’d regret his antisemtic speeches if he could have seen what that sentiment eventually did to the continent and Germany when fully enacted upon. The Nazis destroyed and tainted forests in their own fatherland to exterminate a single group, with a few others here and there. And they were so horrific that the term ‘human rights’ was coined internationally.😔

On a side note, it’s amazing how damn accurate his predictions about the German Empire and the ‘the great war of Europe’. The time frames he predicted as well were also scarily accurate.😳👍

Bavarian people party or something like want to succeed from the federal government and there royal family is rather busy being noticed, Bavaria is a lot more conservative than the rest of Germany

and Otto von Bismarck most copied invention: social security

I like the crumbs on Simon's shirt.

Bismark always has a plan

no EU, no ww1 or 2? yes please

Thanks

Liberals don't want tax rises? How things have changed...

I do believe you skipped over a few details towards the end that really goes to show the more brash and arrogant side to Bismarck. I recalled you had explained in the Franco-Prussian war video (which I don’t know if this video came out before this.) that Bismarck had wanted the Elsass-Lothringen he first just wanted that and nothing more when the French refused he returned to Wilhelm and asked to siege Paris until they agreed. However he wasn’t without his critics as one of the people who was against forcefully taking the region was Prussian later German Field Marshal Helmuth Karl Bernard Graf von Moltke the man who over saw all three of the wars that made Germany. Moltke was admitted that taking the region was going to far and it would only lead to permanent poor relations with France, but Wilhelm agreed with Bismarck and on September 17th 1870 the Siege of Paris began. There was also the fact that the reason Kaiser Wilhelm I didn’t want to be called Kaiser was that by all rights it was an empty title, but Bismarck was admitted about this and threw one of his tantrums and Wilhelm agreed as always. Then there was the reason why Wilhelm II let go of Bismarck and wasn’t because he thought he could do it better. By the time he ascended to the throne Bismarck was becoming senile and his anti-catholic anti-socialist policies weren’t exactly giving Wilhelm confidence. When a miner strike broke out during the start of his reign Bismarck’s brilliant idea was to send in the army and make them stop striking, but Wilhelm refused do so wanting to hear their grievances and actually improve the working conditions and lives. Bismarck also wanted to basically arrest socialists and confiscate their property which again Wilhelm disagreed with, but this event had been the last straw and when Bismarck threatened to quit like he did with his grandfather Wilhelm II allowed it showing Bismarck that it wasn’t going to work this time. I cannot deny that Bismarck was a brilliant political strategist and made Germany, but we cannot keep treating him like this infallible leader that made Germany until stupid Willy blow it up. Much of what sewed the seeds of the Great War happened because of Bismarck and we can’t just ignore it.

Bismarck was only “great” if your definition of greatness doesn’t include any morality. Bismarck was “great” in the same sense that US President James Polk was “great”. I mean, somehow I think the government of Mexico might hesitate before calling James Polk “great”. The same goes for Napoleon (the First), for that matter. The (non-French) victims of his endless wars would never want to call him “great”.

tbh how bismarck is not entitled "the great" is beyond me. but he was never a king or emperor so i guess that dont work.

i think the only one in the historie of my country that had something to do with politics that we respect

always love the contact, not a huge fan of the new camera angle